Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings .

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#ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings

Terrific, clean martial-arts-meets-#GoT-#Marvel-Phase-4?/5?/6?/Infinity?! fun!

I don't know where they found this kid Liu, but he makes for a winning leading man. Awkwafina is funny(as always, TBH *loves* #NoraFromQueens), Chen is heartbreaking, the great Yeoh is reassuringly bad-a**, and *no*one, but no one(and I mean *no*-bl**dy-one) does tragic romantic longing like Leung, but, dude, I have no idea where this other kid Zhang came from, but she steals the whole dang show!

C'mon Disney Plus, where's the Xialing spinoff🤘?!
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PS. The biggest movie in the States and it's *heavily* subtitled, either the corporate muckety-mucks didn't get the memo about the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, or Feige is a secret Bong-head(aren't we all😁?)👍!




[Spoiler Alert!} Sir Ben, we just saw him the other day rewatching #TheSopranos, dude's *hilarious* (that "Liverpudlian" accent🤣!)

"The trajectory of your lives is going to change in ways you can't imagine, there's no going back..." the Marvel lawyers to its young cast?😂😳

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#ShangChi
#KevinFeige #DestinDanielCretton(he of the amazing #ShortTerm12)
#TonyLeung #MengerZhang #Awkwafina #SimuLiu #MichelleYeoh #FalaChen #RonnyChieng #BenedictWong
(Sir)#BenKingsley
@shangchi @marvel @destindaniel


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