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Overall Rating: 5/5

Despite the fact that it took Marvel a decade to release their first Asian superhero film, the wait was definitely worth it. 鈥淪hang-chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings鈥� not only delivered a captivating plot, but more importantly, walked away from stereotyping Asians.

Previous films in the Hollywood industry have stereotyped Asians, including Disney鈥檚 鈥淢ulan.鈥� Many movies portray the elderly characters as wise mentors, guiding the main characters to success. Such characters were presented as correspondences to Confucius and other 鈥渨ise鈥� philosophers.

Another stereotype the Hollywood industry has created for Asians are the skin tones. Despite the fact that Moana from 鈥淢oana鈥� is Polynesian and Raya from 鈥淩aya and the Last Dragon鈥� is Southeast Asian, Disney鈥檚 creation of both characters have the same skin tones, round eyes, and expressions. 鈥淩aya and the Last Dragon鈥� also had a lack of Southeast Asian actors for the voice cast, receiving multiple criticism. However, 鈥淪hang-chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings鈥� finally breaks out of the practice of stereotyping Asians.

The film centers around how best friends Shang-chi (Simu Liu) and Katy (Awkwafina) are forced to leave their lives in San Francisco behind and return to China, where Shang-chi finds out that he has to deal with fighting the 鈥淭en Rings,鈥� the group who gave Shang-chi his powers. The 鈥淭en Rings鈥� first appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe鈥檚 (MCU) first film, 鈥淚ron Man,鈥� where they also played an essential role in allowing Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) to create the first 鈥淚ron Man鈥� suit by imprisoning him in Afghanistan.

The movie leaves the stereotype in elderly Asians being a wise mentor to the main protagonist by presenting Shang-chi鈥檚 father as the ruthless and unjust leader of the 鈥淭en Rings,鈥� a terrorist group in the MCU. The film also refutes the common stereotype that all superheroes are powerful, determined and resistant by revealing that Shang-chi is a superhero who is not only as powerful as most superheroes are, but someone who also holds the value of affection and vulnerability.

Overall, 鈥淪hang-chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings鈥� is a solid Marvel movie, but what is the most enjoyable about the film is that it created a pavement for future Hollywood movies to break away from stereotyping Asians.