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.