The Strongest Avenger – Captain Marvel
Brie Larson takes on the role of Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel in this latest addition to Disney’s Marvel Universe. The movie starts off far from Earth and introduces us to the Kree homeworld. There we meet Carol Danvers and some secondary characters who make up an elite strike team. We learn that Carol has been training with the Kree for years ever since losing her memory.
Without spoiling too much more, she ends up on Earth and teams up with a young Director Fury, played by non other than Samuel Jackson. The two work together to uncover her past and the mysterious events surrounding the loss of her memory.
Captain Marvel herself is better than the movie.
The movie Captain Marvel was about on par with what I expected it to be. It was not my favorite Marvel movie, but it wasn’t the worst. I felt like the movie was trying to do too many things at once. It gave us a peak into Director Fury’s past, it showed us the Kree home-world and it served as the origin story for Captain Marvel. The movie felt like it was trying to connect all the other Marvel films, while introducing us to Captain Marvel, and prepping us for Avenger’s End Game.
Where Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Spider Man and Black Panther all got their own origin stories, I felt like Captain Marvel got shorted by having to share her film with Fury and the Kree. Captain Marvel felt like a filler movie to get us ready for Avenger’s End Game. I think that Captain Marvel will be fun to watch in Avenger’s End Game, and that if we ever get a 2nd Captain Marvel that it will be better than the first.
Another reason that the story may have felt a little weak, is that Captain Marvel is just too powerful. There is basically nothing she can’t do, and that makes it tough to give her proper opposition or conflict.
It may sound like I didn’t care for Captain Marvel, but the truth is that I just wanted it to be so much more. I’ve come to really enjoy the Marvel Cinematic Universe and my expectations of what Disney can do are very high. With that said, I do recommend catching this film in theaters. Captain Marvel is worth a watch.
Starring: Brie Larson, Samuel Jackson
Rated: PG13
Runtime: 2hr 3min
Release date: March 8, 2019 (USA)
Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Budget: 152 million USD
Music composed by: Pinar Toprak
Screenplay: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Nicole Perlman, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Meg LeFauve, Liz Flahive, Carly Mensch
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