7.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
American Born Chinese (2023)
American Born Chinese (2023)
Overview
Average teenager Jin Wang juggles his high school social life with his immigrant home life. When he meets a new foreign student on the first day of the school year, even more worlds collide as Jin is unwittingly entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods.
Starring Cast
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Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Female Combat: Yes
Buddhism: Positive
Viewer Rating
7.6
Overview
Average teenager Jin Wang juggles his high school social life with his immigrant home life. When he meets a new foreign student on the first day of the school year, even more worlds collide as Jin is unwittingly entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Disney PlusDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The series' central conflict revolves around a Chinese-American teenager's struggle with bicultural identity and the pervasive critique of racial stereotypes, aligning its dominant themes with progressive values of diversity and cultural affirmation.
The series features a diverse, predominantly East Asian cast, authentically representing its narrative focus on Chinese-American identity and mythology. The story explores themes of cultural belonging and personal journey without explicitly critiquing traditional identities.
Secondary
The series features Princess Iron Fan, a powerful deity, who is depicted in mythological flashbacks engaging in and winning close-quarters physical combat using martial arts and a fan against multiple male demon warriors.
The series prominently features figures like Guanyin (a Bodhisattva) and the Monkey King, whose journey is rooted in Buddhist themes of enlightenment and spiritual transformation. The narrative treats these figures and their associated spiritual quests with respect and affirms their wisdom and power.
There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.
The series adapts the graphic novel, maintaining the canonical genders of its established characters, such as Jin Wang, Wei-Chen, the Monkey King, and Guanyin. No existing character's gender was altered for the screen adaptation.
The show adapts a graphic novel centered on Chinese and Chinese-American characters and mythology. The casting of main and mythological characters aligns with their established racial identities in the source material, with no instances of a character canonically established as one race being portrayed as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.0
6.6
Critic Ratings
9.4
7.3
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