![]() 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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September 2019
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