Captain Marvel

And, so, everyone, we've arrived at the first M.C.U movie of 2019 and the last one before Endgame, Captain Marvel. Marvel itself has had an amazing track record with their movies in the M.C.U ever since it first started and I was excited like always to see how they could implement another character I've never really seen much in comics or cartoons and see how they could modernise the character, which is something the M.C.U can do really well. Taking characters and modernising them to fit this day and age and making them super enjoyable. And so, what'd I end up thinking about it in the end? Honestly, in terms of M.C.U standards, I would say this is leaning towards the bottom of the films. I wouldn't say it's bad, but it does have a lot of bad stuff in it and there are a fair amount of problems. But, let's talk about the story first. And, like always, this will have no spoilers to start off, and then I'll talk about all the spoilers after a warning. Okay, so, what's he story? It starts off with a flashback of a woman named Carol Danvers, played by Brie Larson, apparently near a plane crash. We then cut to years later where she's older and on another with the race of Krees. She's also friends with a guy named Yon Rogg, played by Jude Law, and during a mission against creatures named Skrulls, Carol is separated from her team and lands on Earth where she begins to have memories of a past that she thinks she's remembering. She also runs into Nick Fury and Coulson who're trying to find out what's going on while Carol is trying to find some invading Skrulls and trying to get through to her team. And, I'm gonna stop there. Okay, so first I'll start with the positives. In terms of the cast, they're mostly solid. I really enjoyed Brie Larson as Carol. I wouldn't say it's in the top 10 best M.C.U castings or anything and there are some aspects to her that I'm going to talk about in the negatives, but I mostly really enjoyed her. And the rest are good and I enjoyed them, even if some of the characters weren't at all memorable. Jude Law, who I'm really beginning to notice recently thanks to this and The Crimes Of Grindlewald, I think he does a great job, but, like I said, I don't remember much about his character aside from what happens to him at the end, which I'll talk about in a few minutes, but I thought the performance was good. By far though, the best part about this movie is Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. I really love Fury and this might be my favourite version of him aside from his character in The Winter Soldier. And the de-aging on him is beyond flawless Not just him, but Coulson is back too and the de-aging on him is also pretty flawless. I already loved Coulson from the movies before he died and seeing him again was great. The interactions between Nick and Carol was by far my favourite part of the whole movie. Super enjoyable and funny too. I really liked Lashana Lynch as Maria, as in an old friend of Carol's on Earth, though I wish we got more interactions between the two of them because I didn't think they had enough to feel much with them. And as for the Skrulls here, they really surprised me. With the main Skrull, Talos, I thought he was funny and a little intimidating at points. And I like the concept for the Skrulls with being able to shapeshift into whoever they want. And what they did with the Skrulls towards the end really surprised me, but I'll get into more detail with that in the spoilers. As for the rest, I don't remember much. I thought a lot of them were kinda unmemorable, though it was cool to see Ronan and Korath back in this, even if they were there for only a few second. As for the visuals, they're pretty good mostly. Not all, but the majority look great. Though, I gotta say, the actual look to the Skrulls look kinda weird to me. The makeup on them looked like something from a TV show. It did look a little better in the movie than I thought it did in the trailers, but still. Some ideas in the movie I thought were pretty interesting and there were a few action scenes that were pretty creative. Same with the jokes. There were some that were really hilarious like every other M.C.U movie, but some did kinda fall flat. Overall, the best I can say is that the movie is definetly entertaining for almost all of it. However, there are also quite a lot of problems. And I guess I'll get into those now. Firstly, and probably the biggest problem I had with the movie is the opening. It just came and went really fast with some really weird editing and some really weirdly delivered exposition. Pretty much as soon as Carol arrives on Earth, the movie begins to pick up, but there's not much to it before that. Thankfully we don't spend much time on the Kree planet, but still. Also, in terms of the problems I had with Carol herself, we really don't get much of a personality with her. At points she feels like a character with no personality and is just kinda there, which is something the M.C.U really shouldn't have because they've always been amazing at creating personalised character, especially the protagonists. I also wasn't a fan of some of the action. Aside from the opening scene in a spaceship, I really don't remember that much in terms of action except for one scene inside a train. The C.G.I also isn't all that great here. Especially towards the end when it's really C.G.I heavy. The C.G.I just looks kinda weird there. And, like I said, there's the relationship between Carol and Maria, which I did really like and I liked them together, but I wish there was more there for me to feel for them. I did feel for it a bit, but not as much as I would have liked. There's also something that happens towards the end that does feel like it comes out of nowhere, even if the thing itself is something I liked. I liked it, but it did feel like it comes outta nowhere. And, really, while a lot of the movie is entertaining, the pacing of the whole movie isn't great and a lot of that has to do with the opening, like I said, and, for me at least, that does damage a lot of the film itself. So, before I get into spoilers, I'll just wrap this up. Captain is another good M.C.U movie and one I was really happy that I saw. Overall, I would definetly recommend seeing the movie, just don't expect this to be one of the best M.C.U movies out there. And so, everyone, that's my review of Captain Marvel. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.
Spoilers:
And with the spoilers, this could be longer than when I normally do spoilers because there's a lot to talk about. So, first off, I wanna talk about that Goose scene. Goose was the name of the cat thing that follows Carol and Fury around for most of the movie. When it's revealed to not really be a cat and some alien called a flerken with tentacles in its mouth, yeah, that was pretty funny, especially during the scene when Fury was trying to use it as a weapon. And then the scene when it scratched out his eye was really weird. I imagine this is something that a lot of people are gonna be angry about considering it's showing that Fury simply lost his eye from a cat scratch. I always assumed he lost it from a mission during a shootout, but no. I did like that scene though, despite the editing on it looking kinda weird. And as for that subplot that I said I liked that kinda came outta nowhere was the Skrulls not actually being the villains of the movie, but the Kree actually are. And the Skrulls themselves are actually kinda peaceful and are trying to get home. I thought that was nice. I liked Talos a lot more after that. And then at the end, Carol decides to leave and help them, yeah, my thoughts on that are the same, just a really nice scene, though a little weird to me in the sense of Fury, Maria and her daughter becoming friends with them. And then, we actually see that the Skrulls had the Tesseract. Which is really confusing considering S.H.I.E.L.D had it after Howard found it in Captain America: The First Avenger. So I'm curious to know how they got it. I also liked how Fury got the idea to name the team the Avengers, from Carol's plane. That was a nice touch. And, finally, the end credit scenes. The first one was seeing the Avengers at Avengers H.Q looking at a map of the world and seeing all the people who died in the snap and then we see that they found Fury's pager and then Carol shows up. I almost kinda lost my mind when that happened because I was really excited to see what's gonna happen next. I mean, Endgame is out in just a few weeks from now and so having that scene here shows what's gonna happen at the start a little bit. I honestly though Carol was gonna meet up with Tony and Nebula in space first and then she'd come to the Earth. But I'm still curious to know what's gonna happen now. And then, the after credit scene has Goose puking up the Tesseract, which was still weird to me. Stuff like that isn't really something we needed to know necessarily, we coulda just guessed that that was gonna happen. And, so, everyone, those are the spoilers for Captain Marvel. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.

Toy Story 4 Trailer

So, everyone, today we got an official full-length trailer for Toy Story 4. Like I said for the last trailer, I personally think I'm still 100% on board for a fourth Toy Story movie, and I have a few worries when it comes to this film. The content to the trailer itself reminds me a lot of Toy Story 2, in the sense of Woody goes to save a toy who's been separated from the group and now the others have to save them, with some other similarities in there too. But, to be fair, the Toy Story magic has already worked once this year with there being a Toy Story world in Kingdom Hearts 3, so I'm sure they'll be able to make this work too, but I'm still a little curious. Still though, in terms of the look to the movie, it looks beautiful. Pixar has practically perfected C.G animation at this point and there's quite a lot of interesting ideas they're presenting here. And so, here it is and I hope you all like this.

Avengers: Endgame trailer

And so, everyone, we finally got an official trailer for Avengers: Endgame. This was actually closer to being released than I thought. But, from this trailer itself, I love it. It's showing us so much but also so little in terms of the content of the movie, which is something I want to see happen with the marketing for the movie. We get to see the Avengers reunited along with some awesome action shots and it all looks pretty insane, which is what's to be expected with the Avengers movies at this point. But, again, I'm loving all of it. We even get to see Captain Marvel with the Avengers. Also, I have seen that movie and the review for that will be my next entry. But as for this, I can't wait to see what they have in store for us. And so, here it is and I hope you all like this.

How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

And, so, everyone, we've finally arrived at the final instalment to the humongous popular Dragons franchise, the Hidden World. I was obviously super excited for this. I love the Dragons franchise as a whole. I've watched the two previous movies and I've seen all the TV shows like Riders Of Berk, Defenders Of Berk and Race To The Edge, which I've reviewed on this blog. So expectations were pretty high for this final instalment in this franchise. So, what did I end up thinking of it? Honestly, in terms of where I would rank it with the other two movies, I personally think I'd put it in the middle. A lot of people are calling this the least of the three movies, but, personally, I think I found it to be better than the first, but not as good as the second. Which is kinda hard to beat considering how high a bar that is. Still though, I'm really happy to say that this was such a great time... for the most part, mainly because I do have problems with the movie. But I still had a great time with it. And, yes, this'll be spoiler-free for the first part and then I'll get into all the spoilers. So, what's the story? It actually begins a few months after the second movie and now Hiccup and the others are still freeing dragons from dragon trappers. And everything seems to be going pretty well until a villain named Grimmel is planning to kill them all. All while Toothless has actually met a female Night Fury who he begins to have a crush on, but she keeps vanishing. And now, because of the danger of Grimmel, Berk has been evacuated. All the while Toothless is still constantly thinking of the Light Fury and Hiccup is trying to help him. And I'm gonna stop right there. So I'm just gonna get into the positives first. Obviously, when it comes to DreamWorks movies, whether they're good or bad, something that always remains a staple is that they always have fantastic animation, and this is no exception. The other two movies were easily the best looking DreamWorks movies they had made and this takes that to even higher levels. And whenever any of the dragons move around or have their own way of moving in a way, they actually look like they have they're own way of doing it and it doesn't feel recycled from any of the others. It feels like everything was created from the ground up perfectly. And every detail you can imagine is perfectly shown. And the characters are just the same, which I'm so happy about. Hiccup feels more like he's evolving as a character again, and not just the fact that he's now the chief, but he's also stepping more into an adult stage, but at the same time, he's still the same as before and he's still really funny. He also feels like he can fully be awesome here. When it looks like he's mad and serious, it's not like the first movie where he's a weak guy trying to act tough, he really does feel like a person who can deliver on what he says. And the rest are great too. Him and Astrid still work great together and there's still a lot of great banter between all of them. And what they did with Snotlout was really funny again. And I obviously like all the other side characters too like Gobber, Valka and Erit. I still really like them. The movie's also got a fair amount of surprises. I was pretty shocked by some scenes in this and I was really pleased with how a lot of it progressed. I still really enjoy watching these characters together and interacting and watching the story progress with them. I was especially really happy and hyped up whenever we went into an action scene with them because so much of it was really exciting and really fun. But, even with that, I would say my favourite scenes in the movie were any with Toothless because he's in love with this Light Fury and he's always trying his best to impress her and win her over. And any scene with that was always enjoyable. In particular a scene on a beach where Toothless is trying to impress her and Hiccup trying to help him by doing hand gestures. There's not a single word being said, but Hiccup is trying to help him and Toothless is really trying to do his best to woo this Light Fury. That was really funny and really cute too. All the stuff with the main characters were easily the best parts, like always. They're all still really likeable and entertaining. Honestly, the only problem with the film I have is the villain. Grimmel was a very boring villain who I don't even remember all that much of. Any time it cut to him, I was always sorta waiting for the movie to go back to Hiccup. I remember Drago from the second Dragons movie being a much better villain than Grimmel. Also, his eventual defeat was pretty disappointing in my opinion. Besides that though, I am so happy to say that this is a franchise that has not had a single bad entry in it. Not just from the movies, but also the TV shows and even the little shorts they've made too like Gift Of The Night Fury and all those. I was so please with how the Dragon series ended and, yeah, the ending to this is incredible. I could not believe what happens during the ending. So, yeah, if you like these films, I would highly recommend seeing this, but I would still say go see it because it's a really great movie. And so, everyone, that was my review of How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.
Spoilers:
Okay, there's not a lot of spoilers to talk about, so this will probably be really quick. I really the part where Hiccup was making a new tail for Toothless so he could go looking for the Light Fury himself And the actual Hidden World where all the dragons were look gorgeous. Not just the designs, but also the colours and the different ways they shot just made it feel that much more alive. I did also really love the end climax. That was really cool and there were some stakes there where it looked like either Toothless or the Light Fury could have been killed. And there were other action scenes I liked like the scene in Grimmel's base where he was setting traps for them or when he burned down Hiccup's house. And then the ending, when Grimmel died and where I said it was anticlimactic is when he just falls into the water and that's it. It felt really quick and we don't even see him afterwards. That's not too big an issue, but still. I also kinda liked the fact that they had to leave Berk because of Grimmel, but I also found it weird that they did considering they've faced threats before and didn't leave it then, but I do also understand given how many he had under his command. And really, the only other big spoiler is the really great ending to the movie, which I still really love. After Grimmel is beaten, Hiccup decides to let all the dragons go and they head off towards the Hidden World, which was really sad, but then it's followed by Hiccup and Astrid finally getting married and then we cut to years later with the two of them with kids and they meet up with Toothless and the Light Fury again who have baby dragons themselves. Which I loved. I really love endings like that and this is just another one of those awesome endings. And I think that's pretty much everything. And so, everyone, that's my review of How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Thank k you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.