Non spoiler review of the marvels. ->it's a fun movie

Imagine you're a teenager who likes superheros and want to be a superhero. Then one day you become part of the adventure of your favorite superhero.

Kamala was as charming in the movie as she was in the ms marvel show. It's a fun adventure with good cast

Kamala shows that she is a superhero through and through putting other's first before herself. Nick fury is the same fun guy from captain marvel 1.

I liked Carol Danvers performance in this movie more than part 1 because she gets more opportunities to show her talent in action scenes in this movie (Action scenes are creative). She is also a joy person here unlike suppressed woman who lost her identity in part 1

I liked carol Danvers when she was spending time with nick fury in part 1. But here kamala, carol and monica chemistry is better than 3 Spiderman chemistry. I'm saying this as Spiderman fan.

Monica also gets more screen time to shine in action and emotional scenes.

I like kamala family but them feeling normal with all the aliens drama feels little artificial. I know they dealt with aliens in the ms marvel show.

I didn't understand why critics were mad at the movie. First 10 mins of the movie feels like a chore to watch. But once the gimmick of them switching places starts it's a fun ride. There was a big lag because of the exposition in middle of the movie. I was not a big fan of musicals. Action was good and story was good. It's entertaining, short and sweet. Both post credit scenes were cool.

I don't know what else you want from mcu.

_The Marvels_ is the MCU trying to right the ship... and it feels like it. The shift in marketing prior to its release (i.e. Thanos appearing in the final trailer & TV spots) & the 1:45 runtime are the most obvious examples of this. The film is a good watch but also felt a bit like a sugar rush: Totally enjoyable, with a slightly hollow-feeling comedown. _The Marvels_ has the bones of what could have been a genre-redefining swing for the fences, but in the brief moments where I could catch my breath as the story plowed ahead I couldn’t help but think that the changes that were obviously made during reshoots & in the editing bay were the wrong ones to make. Kevin Feige & Co. are smart enough to know that they've made mistakes of late. They're just not brave enough to make the kind of movie that would fix them.

The trio of Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, and Iman Vellani have great chemistry and are loads of fun to watch. Vellani is the breakout star of the piece, but her arc felt rushed. In a more ambitious film Larson could have showcased a wide range of emotions- from rage, to soul-crushing guilt, to brooding loneliness, to broad musical comedy. We get to see flashes of each, but it left me wanting more. And Parris just kind of… is. She holds her own, but only comes to life in her quiet scenes with Larson & Vellani. She deserved more of that.

Until _The Marvels_, the average runtime of an MCU movie was 2:18. The choice to trim that down dramatically for this installment wasn’t necessarily a bad one- it’s just that the wrong things got left out. Instead of quick-cut flashbacks to fill in plot gaps (Zawe Ashton’s Dar-Benn barely gets any motivation for her malevolence, so her energetic performance is kinda wasted), they could have skipped a couple of set pieces and used the technological plot device in act two to do a lot more character development.

Imagine an MCU movie with flashy comic book stuff that felt like an addition instead of the raison d'etre of the piece. The massive battles & awesome stinger + post-credits scene could have bookended a Phase 5 bottle episode that served as a deep character study of the women at the center of it.

We could have seen Carol Danvers make a mistake and be devastated by her (genocidal) actions. We could have gotten much more of Monica Rambeau coming to terms with her abilities. And we could have seen Kamala humanizing her idol & coming to grips with the awesome responsibility of her powers. They could have even retconned the dismal _Secret Invasion_. (The filmmakers seem to have joined the rest of us in wishing that it never happened, as most of the plot contradicts what went down in that show.)

Instead, Marvel stuck with what it knows, and what we got was a perfectly serviceable entry to the MCU. It just wasn’t as good as it could have been if Marvel wasn’t trapped in the formula that it created.

Uncharacteristically, I am going to begin my review by giving my rating. I give this film a 7 (good) out of 10. My audience exit poll, asking people for a rating out of 10, yielded: one 7, a bunch of 8s and 9s, one 9.5 and a 10. I will now explain why I my rating wasn’t more enthusiastic.

I always get a little concerned when I have high expectations for a film and I had been counting down the days to see this one. I was a big fan of the CAPTAIN MARVEL movie (9 out of 10), the MS MARVEL series (7 out of 10) and was the Monica Rambeau story from WANDA VISION (8 out of 10) and was looking forward to the blending of those very different tones of production.

So, that was my mindset before walking into the prerelease viewing of this movie - high anticipation.

My first two impressions were related to the production quality.
1) My attention to the story was interrupted by a clash between the CGI and 3D. The 3D images were sharp but the background images were blurry, not a good start for a movie that is mostly CGI, I immediately wished I had gone to a non 3D viewing.
2). The trailers had already spoiled that the the plot twist of this movie was that all three main characters are caught up in a cosmic entanglement in which they arbitrarily swap places with each other throughout the universe whenever they use their powers. What was meant to be a cool effect ended up being a chaotic (if comedic) mess that made the fight scenes almost impossible to follow while disconnecting the audience from the characters and the action.

As for the rest of it, the story telling (besides the muddled character swaps) was fun and actually had a great story arc with some nice threads. The characters and their performances were engaging and delightful and well executed although there was little actual character development, beyond the expected bonding of the team of three (a crucial component of storytelling for me). I was particularly amused by the Flurkin (sp?) hijinks set to the soundtrack of Barbra Streisand singing Memories from CATS and the mini-musical and reveal on the planet Aladna (sp?).

However, the last scene of the film really excited me as it teased where the TV version of the Marvels might be going with a tie in of another favourite character in the TV Marvel Universe. The mid-credit scene tease almost brought me to my feet because it hints of a resurrection of favourite Marvel U franchise of mine. (Man, it was hard to write these without spoiling them), Don’t bother to wait for a post-credit scene, it was merely a sound effect drawn from inside the movie, itself.

Thanks for bearing with me for this L O N G review. [Superhero Adventure]

If this movie was 30 minutes I'd have 10 starred it. The rest just kind of falls into the typical colourful, bombastic garbage. Too much Marvel garble. I'm not the target for this by any means but if your kids feel ripped off and angry after watching it, congratulate them and discuss why. Fans of original Star Trek will find something familiar here.

Its not just that Larson is deeply uncharismatic, or that now the whole marvel thing reeks of try hard desperation to restart the previous two decades longest running gravy train. Its mostly that all of the marvel movies always have been, low grade cartoons for lame brained adults. The fuckheads who slurped it all are now pretending like this is any worse, it isn't. Its the same thing, and you wasted a lifetime of watching hours on all the other marvel nonsense, you lose.