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Megan McDonnellCinematography:
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Laura KarpmanCast:
Brie Larson, Iman Vellani, Teyonah Parris, Samuel L. Jackson, Zawe Ashton, Lashana Lynch, Mohan Kapur, Zenobia Shroff, Seo-joon Park, Reggie, Saagar Shaikh (more)VOD (4)
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In the film, Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol’s estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team up and learn to work in concert to save the universe as The Marvels. (Walt Disney US)
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On paper, it meets the quota. A girly Marvel movie with an unlikeable and downright repulsive villain packed with visual effects. There's no shortage of environmental overtones, even saving the sun at the end. The script connects series characters, but simply to somehow link them to what's happening on the silver screen. The biggest WTF is the Planet of the Songs, which is probably the thing my four-year-old daughter will like best. The secret invasion doesn't make sense after that (I guess it took place in another reality), and the cats save the day. Somehow. Pretty pointless episode defying physics, logic, but it goes by pretty quickly. Zawe Ashton is disgusting. Brie Larson is awfully nice, especially in a sports bra. Too bad she's not getting better scripts.
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From the first trailer, this light-hearted-looking film with three heroines is very much about the heroines, and it's light-hearted to boot. Oh, yeah. I really liked The Marvels, perhaps because I wasn't expecting a second Civil War, perhaps because I don't mind switching and looking at different movies through different eyes. So I enjoyed not only the interplay of the central trio, but also looking for that interplay, with the most important role played by the perfect Iman Vellani as Kamala. It's hard to imagine a better guide through the Marvels story than an enthusiastic teenage girl who finally made it from a show to a movie and from dreams to their realization. The film is light, fun, colorful, has an understandably driven female villain, an absolutely great score (Laura Karpman, do some Star Wars, please), including a musical passage where Disney kind of pokes fun at itself, imaginative action passages with character flipping, effective humor in scenes like "Nick Fury and Kamala's family", as if cut from an Emmerich flick,... And there are cats and Cats! The most likeable Marvel movie in a long time.
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I am terribly sorry that genre viewer fatigue, fandom toxicity (who says there isn't any here, let them browse any discussion forum) and unfortunate timing collided right here. Of course, I can respect the fact that many people get lost in the universe and that this is the intersection that most clearly shows that escaping from such a labyrinth is not easy. It's not about connecting two movie series, here you should immediately check out several TV series, when Ms. Marvel and Wandavision are an absolute necessity for the experience to make sense. Also remember / review Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame, arrange an approximate timeline, keep in mind what all belongs to this shuffled universe, will belong to it or could belong to it. It is an endless task and just because I enjoy it, it doesn't mean that everyone else does as well and honestly, going to the cinema to unwind and not being able to completely relax is a understandable objection. Unfortunately, I feel that the public here has refused to take even a single step towards the film and this will inevitably harm the result. And when the wounded lie, why not kick them again. Marvels shines with unparalleled light for me. I don't know exactly how they did it, because the script is a bit messy in terms of genre, the connection of the main Miracles with Monica could have ended up as a forced digression, but just the opposite. The power of friendship, that ordinary driving force of many adventure blockbusters is here in the first place, in the second then a classic smaller team and a fight with an understandable villain in foreign worlds. It calls for classic adventure movies, where there is humor, likable actors, beautiful actresses, super characters that the viewer wants to see repeatedly. All of this is here, on a silver platter. Don't let this feast disgust you, one day we will miss it.
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The Marvels relies on an all-female (super)heroic cast, but this can have its pitfalls. I'll start by saying that I was expecting a more feminist-tinged charge, but The Marvels keeps a pretty low profile in this regard. What couldn't be overlooked, however, was the very blatant targeting of the girl audience in places: we haven't had this many girls (and babes, for which I give a thumbs up though). The BFF-line was too forced, and the post-credit scene only sealed this "blatant targeting". But whatever! Fortunately, The Marvels has an optimal running time and offers clear and brisk action, but it also has a reprehensibly bland villain and a couple of WTF-moments (the Bollywood-tinged visit to Aladna was, ahem, weird). All in all, marginally better than Ant-Man 3.
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I disagree with Scorsese's take on the MCU not being cinema but rather a theme park. Even in a theme park, you have to put in some effort to make it look presentable in order to make profit. Marvel has become a product that seems to have forgotten about logic, storytelling, and most importantly, the audience. And well, the audience has spoken with their wallets and made it pretty clear to Disney that they're not digging this direction. It feels like Marvel is catering to a specific target audience, but definitely not the one that made the MCU the phenomenon it once was. Now, don't get me wrong. It's not as much of a trainwreck as Eternals, and some of the action scenes are actually pretty well shot. But the overwhelming sense of boredom and helplessness? That's hard to shake off. If I had to pinpoint just one of the many annoying aspects, it'd be Samuel L. Jackson's lackluster performance. It feels like he showed up, recited a few lines, collected his paycheck, and couldn't care less about anything else. It's probably one of the most half-hearted performances of his career. MCU Phase 4 was a misstep, and Phase 5 seems to be following down this downward spiral.
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