Abominable is a 2019 animated adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation, Pearl Studio and Zhong Ming You Ying Film. Written and directed by Jill Culton and co-directed by Todd Wilderman. The film follows a teenage girl named Yi who encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building in Shanghai, names him Everest and embarks on an epic quest to reunite the magical creature with his family at the highest point on Earth along with her mischievous friends Jin and Peng, but the trio of friends will have to stay one-step ahead of Burnish, a wealthy man intent on capturing a Yeti, and zoologist Dr. Zara to help Everest get home.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019, and was released by Universal Pictures in the United States on September 27 while Pearl Studio distributed the film in China.
A follow-up television series, Abominable and the Invisible City, was released on streaming service Peacock and Hulu from October 2022 to March 2023.
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The film was banned from screening ten days after its release in Vietnam due to a scene showing a map with China's nine-dash line. The line, used to indicate China's territorial claims in the South China Sea, is highly contested by Vietnam, as well as Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines. This also caused the film (and its Vietnamese dub) to be banned from streaming on Netflix in Vietnam.
The Philippines and Malaysia also reacted negatively to the scene. On October 17, the Film Censorship Board of Malaysia ordered the map scene to be cut from the film. However, the film was banned entirely in Malaysia after Universal refused to make the cut, with the Philippines' Movie and Television Review and Classification Board following suit the next day.
However, the film (and its Filipino and Malay dubs) was still released on DVDs and aired on TV in Malaysia and the Philippines, albeit with the map scene cut.
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