The Marvels
The Marvels
When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, Carol's 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.
Varun reviewedOctober 19, 2024
This movie is all over the place in the worst way possible. I thought it started really well, I enjoyed the accidental teleportation and how the characters are introduced to each other and deal with their predicament. I was really digging the CGI too, I could feel the scope of the space scenes, the cats were realistic, and a lot of things felt tangible. Aladna was breathtaking to look at, it was like a fantasy coastal city from Europe and the costume design for the inhabitants was really cool. Kamala Khan has an amazing infectious energy and brought lots of fun to many scenes. This is where my praises end. The script is super messy, you can clearly tell there were multiple rewrites and reshoots that’s just badly put together. Monica was so flat and boring, for majority of the movie she’s just moping about Aunt Carol leaving her and she brings zero energy to the trio. Captain Marvel did have more personality compared to the first movie, because here she has to deal with different emotions, but even this didn’t go very far in any direction. Brie Larson is a good actress but there’s not much she can do when Marvel has zero idea what to do with the character or the tone they want to set. There’s also so much past exposition about things we already know, Marvel isn’t interested in building up the characters in the present moment. The villain was another weak caricature and the actress was corny as hell. Also I couldn’t stand Kamala’s mom’s accent in the show or this film, I find it super cringe and she makes every joke unfunny. Why did they decide to turn the Aladna section into a musical??? It makes zero tonal sense and I didn’t laugh or smile once. The Prince seemed interesting but he barely gets like 5 mins of screen time and it looks like Marvel just wanted to market him to the Korean fans. Nick Fury is a comedian in this film, every single line of his is setting up a joke or gag. Also I’m a cat dad, so I enjoyed the Flerken scene because it was visually fun and comedic and works great as an idea to save everyone, however the set up isn’t organic or rational and feels like it’s just another gag pushed into the movie for marketing purposes. I also don’t get why they’re making a big deal about the director, she has no critically acclaimed hits and her Candyman movie was awful. Marvel studios seriously has no idea what they’re doing, their latest movies and shows have been complete disasters with god awful writing. I feel like I’m just watching childish soap dramas at this point. I hope to see Kamala in future projects, she was the only breath of fresh air the entire runtime, but even she couldn’t be a saving grace for this mess of a film.