Captain Marvel Movie Review

Major Spoilers are included in this episode review. Please read with caution.

This movie was given impossible standards. It’s starring the first female superhero to enter the MCU, and that alone gives the movie a lot of weight. We live in a world where if the movie doesn’t have a straight white dude starring in it, it’s automatically given pressure to “succeed”. Don’t get me wrong. The movie did succeed, but it’s also a Marvel movie, which means it’s stuck in a formula like the past twenty+ Marvel movies. Let’s just get into the actual movie and let’s see how that goes instead:

Carol Danvers, played by the amazing Brie Larson, is our main protagonist. However, at the beginning of the movie, her name is Vers (pronounced “Veers”). She has lost her memory and lives on the Planet Hala, the homeworld of the Kree. For those unfamiliar with the television series Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD starring Phil Coulson, feel blessed for not getting triggered by that fact.

The plot of the movie is directly tied to Carol Danvers gradually piecing together her past, and how that connects to the overall war between the Kree and the Skrulls. The clever plot twist toward the climax is kind of predictable if one remembered previous MCU media sources like Agents of SHIELD and Guardians of the Galaxy. The movie does a good job on showing how she didn’t really fit in with the Kree using her effortless humor and laser hands.

It was a predictable movie overall. The CGI de-aging on Nick Fury and Phil Coulson was believable, and Fury’s chemistry with Danvers was spot-on. Technology is amazing nowadays, and the fight scenes were well-done. Seeing Brie Larson kick ass throughout the film was highly satisfying. It’s no Wonder Woman, but great representation nonetheless.