The Marvels
2023
5/10
I watched this for the first time last month with my two sons on Disney+.
The film somewhat picks up from the after credit scene of the “Ms. Marvel” series.
Not going to go into detail being I’m the last person on the board who has seen this flick.
While watching it, it didn’t come off as a movie but more the 2nd season of “Ms. Marvel with how it was presented. Being there were 3 Marvels, they crammed their stories into this short film. A 9 episode series would have allowed more character development between the 3. Also, not enough time was given towards Dar-Been. The only thing good was showing her use the Ultimate Weapon unlike what they had done with Ronan the Accuser.
The 2 parts of the film that had me scratching my head was them arriving on that planet where everyone sings/dance. I was staring at the screen and me and my sons were sitting there with blank looks. The other was with the cats on the space station sucking up the workers to evacuate the facility. Me and sons were puzzled with that one too. All of that probably would have worked if it was a series, but for a movie…those scenes just didn’t work.
The Skrulls, they still were being depicted as a bunch of wimps in this film. I’m still not sure where they are going with them, especially now that the Fantastic Four is coming into the MCU and the Skrulls have a long history of dealing with them, especially with the Super Skrull.
The after credit scene looks to be bringing the X-Men into the MCU from the Multi-Verse.
Other than that, it was entertaining. It falls in the category of “See It Once, No Interest In Seeing It Again”.
Synopsis
Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. However, unintended consequences see her 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 two other superheroes to form the Marvels.