Vers’ joins Yon-Rogg and his team, which includes amongst them Karath (Djimon Hounsou) who we might remember from Guardians of The Galaxy, on a mission to extract a spy from Skrull territory. The mission doesn’t go as planned, and Vers falls to Earth, or planet c-53, which fellow Kree Minn-Erva (Gemma Chan) calls “a real shithole.” Vers just so happens to fall directly into a Blockbuster Video, which lets us know for sure that WE ARE IN THE 90’s everyone! Soon after, S.H.I.E.L.D. shows up. Agents Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson who is CG’d to look like he did in Pulp Fiction minus the Jheri curl) and rookie agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg who is CG’d to look not much different than he does now).
“…has some hilarious moments and some that tug at your heartstrings…”
From this point forward, it is pretty much a non-stop journey through the history that formed The Avengers. We see young Ronin The Accuser (Lee Pace), we learn how Nick Fury lost his eye (which I will not spoil here), we learn the origins of some pretty important items that might be useful to Thanos in the future…and also we hear A LOT of 90’s music, particularly from woman-fronted bands. “Connection” by Elastica, “Just A Girl” by No Doubt, “I’m Only Happy When It Rains” by Garbage, and weirdest of all “Celebrity Skin” by Hole. Again, if you would have told me as a teenager that a Courtney Love song would be in a superhero movie, I would have told you to get bent.
Overall, I enjoyed the film a lot. It was nice to see the softer side of Nick Fury, who has a really cute friendship with a cat(?) named Goose—a definite nod to Top Gun, which makes sense considering Carol Danvers’ history in the Air Force. There’s a lot of cool outer space and flight scenes; and some great fight choreography. The downside to the film is that even though the film is 2 hours long, it covers A LOT of material, so it does feel somewhat rushed at times. We do discover Captain Marvel’s true origins and her rebirth as the superhero who will hopefully save the rest of our Avengers in End Game.
By 8:00 A.M. on opening day in the United States, the film held a 33% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes from more than 58,000 reviews, which was more audience reviews than
I’ve been waiting for the Captain Marvel to air, hoping it would complement the MCU, but her origin was so clouded with action and special affects, that it is unclear to know how she truly became Vers and where she is going at the end of the film. I like her attitude though she looks lost in her role at times. She’s able to help us understand some details from Affinity War, but Samuel L. Jackson was the true star, holding up the integrity of Marvel. Jude Law is terrific, as expected whenever he’s performing. I just wish I liked the overall movie more.
Ehhh, it was okay. Larson was stiff as a board but it was a decent by the numbers Marvel movie.
They squandered a villain with great potential (Skrulls) in order to take a side in political allegory. Larson was sorta OK at first and I even liked some of the stuff in the first half of the film. But it started halfassed and got less assed as it went. By the end it was just outright stupid. Too bad. I really had high hopes.
I don’t get where you think that the Skrulls were wasted “to make a political point”. Honestly, I just thought it was an awesome plot twist, especially since GOTG already established that the Kree are not exactly the nicest folks.
25 years will have passed between the time this movie took place and Phase 4. That’s plenty of time for some evil Skrull to have taken over and turned them into a threat. They might be the Big Bad for the entire movie cycle.
A villain that hasn’t yet been used is hardly squandered.
I disagree with Mr. Gore. Larson is well cast in the role. It’s the lack of her character’s depth in the script that let Larson down. I doubt any actress could’ve pulled off a better, or actual, performance. Even Meryl Streep couldn’t mat “She-Devil” work, so don’t bother bringing her up.
No The Breeders, Kate Bush, or Kittie, no sale.
Pfft yeah okay.