CAPTAIN MARVEL SUMMARY REVIEW
I'd give it a B+!
SPOILERS!!
I enjoyed it, and I'm glad I didn't know about
any super-spoilers before seeing it.
The initial battle was handled very well, I
liked the setup of StarForce, and I hope that some of them get to be seen again
someday.
It sucks that there is such a glaringly
obvious trashing campaign going on, this has become an "epidemic"
(and of course last year it was Black Panther), good lord.
The flashbacks during Carole's initial capture
were, for me, possibly the most "confusing" but I didn't particularly
have trouble keeping up after that.
I would have wanted more hang-out time and
general exploration time for Carole and Nick. Maybe expand the plot's
time-frame to her being on Earth several weeks as opposed to a few days
(seemingly?) I know this had to be roughly 2 hours, though. I had
thought that maybe exposing her to her and Maria's karaoke song would help jar
her memory, lol. I had thought they might end up at a blues bar in
Louisiana at one point.
Annette Benning is Mar-Vell? Ah.
Didn't see that coming. Intriguing gender-swap, and maybe the most
"radical" for the MCU, even though the general public has no idea who
Mar-Vell originally was, lol. (Though I can also kind of see some folks
being a little confused at the Lawson-image-as-Supreme-Intelligence, since
Lawson/Mar-Vell died in t he flashback but was torturing her during the third act).
Was Carole's mother even glimpsed at
all? I forget. I remember seeing her dad in the flashbacks, though.
I found nothing objectionable about Ms.
Larson's performance. I'm not all that familiar with her other movies, though,
so the quirks that other folks have focused on are neither here nor there with
me.
I did note the "hey why don't you smile?" aside-- I wonder was that done in reshoots? I
remember that micro-controversy on the forums.. lol..
Glad to see a solid portrayal of Maria here as
a kind of proto-Monica. And of course, she lives until the end!!
(woo-hoo!)
There's obviously no excuse not to eventually have Monica
eventually become (whatever name they choose, my pick is Dr. Spectrum, if they
have adult Monica as a scientist before "whatever" gives her powers
happens).
The film had a lot more humor than I was
expecting, though it didn't come across as campy, fortunately. I can't
help but to think that the Supergirl TV show, Melissa
Benoist's performance has had some influence.
Sympathetic skrulls blew my wig back, along
with the veiled war refugees metaphor. The lead guy ended up being fun to
watch.
Interesting, though I suppose there's always room in
future movies for some rogue factions to "continue the war" and be
traditional villains. And it never was explicitly revealed just how the
homeworld was destroyed.
Ah-- Yon Rogg clearly wasn't killed at the end
(fortunately), so I guess the window's open for him to come back in a future
adventure.
I was expecting that Fury would get his eye
shot by laser-fire, but for the way that they handled it, lol-- oh well-- My
guess is if Fury didn't know what a Flerken could do he'd have tried to take a
pistol to the thing himself after the scratch.. And of course, where the heck
is the thing now, since it became Fury's pet? Hmm...
I presume part 2 will take place in the
present day-- or what if it doesn't, I wonder what villain(s) or threat they
could use. Maybe it could be a space adventure, though that would seemingly
leave little room for Fury to tag along.
I still hope for a Fury
solo movie someday. (Spike Lee directing?) We’ll see.
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