![]() The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been around for over 10 years, starting with Iron Man in 2008, and Captain Marvel is the first female superhero movie that Marvel has released, despite having a multitude of formidable female heroes. Female superhero feature length movies are few and far between. Young comic book fans won’t even remember most of these films. You may recall our review of the most recent female superhero movie, DC Comics’ Wonder Woman in 2017. This is why we were so excited in the months leading up to Captain Marvel. It was introducing a new powerful female hero, a classic comic villain, and set in the mid/late 90’s. They had teased about her arrival in a post-credit scene of Infinity War. And let’s face it, after Infinity War, we needed a fun movie. An uplifting move. We needed hope. The internet was rife with negative press building up to the release of Captain Marvel. The website Rotten Tomatoes even purged 50,000 negative reviews (not any critics’ reviews, just general internet profiles) on their site, for this movie. All these negative reviews were published before the movie had been released, which meant none of these people had even seen the movie. The general belief being that people were trying to tank its ratings based on nothing more than the pre-movie hype. Rotten Tomatoes was quick to notice the unusually large number of reviews (compared to all other movies) and deleted the aforementioned 50,000. Captain Marvel tells the story of Vers, a Kree from the planet Hala, played by Brie Larson. She is struggling with her identity, since she has forgotten everything before the past 6 years. We meet her as she is training to be part of the Kree’s Starforce, in the midst of an intergalactic war with the Skrull. After her first battle with the Skrull, Vers finds herself on Earth. She soon realizes that she had once lived on Earth as Carol Danvers and begins to learn more about Earth, herself, and the skrulls. Captain Marvel was overall a fun, action packed movie poking fun at mid-90’s life: things like windows ‘95 and Blockbuster Video. Released March 8th, 2019 and rated PG-13 for “sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and brief suggestive language." It’s an excellent origin story. It’s a human story. A superpowered girl power story. It made us laugh, some of us cried. Plus there’s this cat named Goose in Carol’s AF base, a nod to Top Gun (1986). We thoroughly enjoyed the movie and highly recommend it.
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Anyone that reads our reviews knows that we are fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). As such, we have written many reviews on the movies from that genre. But we skipped the biggest release that the MCU has ever seen (It grossed over $680 million in theaters, making it the highest grossing movie in the MCU). This was due to the timing of it's release and the what we felt was the necessity to review the MCU as a whole, before the release of Avengers: Infinity War. We will rectify that right now!
The Black Panther, released in theaters February 16, 2018 and on video May 8, 2018 is loved by fans and critics alike. The story is set in the African nation of Wakanda and follows T'Challa and his family. T’Challa is learning to be King of Wakanda as well as the Black Panther, following the death of his father T’Chaka, an event that took place during Captain America: Civil War. T’Challa’s right to the throne and to the title of Black Panther are challenged by what the Wakandans consider an outsider. This challenger throws the nation into chaos and threatens their very way of life. Black Panther is rated PG-13 (for prolonged sequences of action violence, and a brief rude gesture). It is visually magnificent and the soundtrack is one of the best in the MCU. We were very excited for this movie, and did not skip the review due to lack of love. This is one of our favorites and we highly recommend it! ![]() There are so many wonderful movies released every month, that it becomes difficult to see all of them. So, it should be of no surprise to you, that it is also difficult to review all of them. This is why we like to pause at least once a year, and rewind to one such movie. This month, we will be talking about Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Released way back in November 2018 this is the second of five Wizarding World movies that Warner Bros. has announced. And we highly recommend it. The cinematography is breathtaking! The soundtrack is mesmerizing! The special effects are seamless! You don’t need to have studied filmmaking or any of the arts to recognize that this movie is visually and emotionally stunning. It is perfect immersion into a world that feels like it is just under the fabric of our Muggle reality. We again get to follow the antics of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne)as he interacts with amazing animals that are found in the Wizarding World. These are animals that we Muggles don’t see, and so it is truly mystifying observing them and their habitats. Newt isn’t only taking care of animals in this movie, though that is obviously his first love. He is also working to stop Gellert Grindelwald (Jonny Depp) from taking over not only the magical world, but also the non-magical world. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is funny, sad, and a bit scary. Rated PG-13 for some sequences of fantasy action. This is an action packed movie. There are wand battles, and animal attacks. Violence and destruction and death, means that this movie is not for the faint of heart, or for children under 12. |
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