When facing betrayal by her male mentor (Jude Law’s Yon-Rogg) in the third act, Carol refuses to submit to his demands and face him in hand-to-hand combat instead, she simply blasts him into a rock formation (a move very reminiscent of Indiana Jones vs.
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The flashbacks to Carol wiping out in her various endeavors repeat throughout the movie before finally flipping the switch (which even the most casual movie viewer will see coming) to show us that after each failure, she got back up and pushed forward-and that’s what gives her strength. You’ll get plenty of it here, with repeated flashbacks depicting Carol as a gritty young girl (played by McKenna Grace and London Fuller) who grew up with the message that she isn't strong enough to race go-karts or play baseball with the boys, and later, that she's not good enough to train with them for the Air Force. And the movie works if you’re a young girl for whom the simple message of “girl power!” still works.
This is all fine if you’ve seen each Marvel film- Captain Marvel is an essential viewing stepping stone to get you from Infinity War to Endgame.
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Ant-Man, played by Paul Rudd, will be two key players in solving the Thanos problem in the upcoming Endgame.)Ĭaptain Marvel’s job was twofold: introduce Carol and get audiences caught up to speed on her origin story, and flesh out the war between the Kree and Skrull alien races that longtime MCU fans see briefly in Guardians of the Galaxy and Marvel’s sole network TV show, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Broadly, the assumption is that she and Scott Lang, a.k.a. At this point, the hero is unknown to the audience. Jackson, who also co-stars in Captain Marvel as a younger version of himself that only just misses the Uncanny Valley) is one of the vanished, but before turning to dust in the final moments of IW, he sends a distress signal via pager to Carol. At the end of Infinity War, an alien named Thanos decimates half of Earth’s population with the snap of his fingers, supposedly for the good of humanity. Directors Boden and Fleck were tasked with covering a whole lot of material in the wake of Avengers: Infinity War and in the lead up to Avengers: Endgame, and that’s a lot to put on any film’s shoulders, much less your studio’s first female superhero.įor the uninitiated, a quick overview: Captain Marvel is the 21st film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). But in addition to its simplistic overarching message, the film suffers from arguably unfair expectations.
The Oscar-winning actress stars as human Air Force pilot turned intergalactic Kree hero Carol Danvers, (or Vers, as she’s known on her adopted home world of Hala), and she does the most with what she’s given from writers Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, and Geneva Dorwet-Robinson. It turns out that in 2019, the "Yay! Girl Power!" message alone cannot carry a film.īrie Larson isn’t the problem here. But Captain Marvel has relieved me of that temptation. I often find myself flipping through my DVD binders, tempted to pop in the finale of Buffy, which resonated with me so much back in the day: a resounding "Yay! Girl power!" message that every girl has the strength, power, grit, and resilience of a slayer-literally. Though I want to go back to what used to be so familiar to me, I'm worried the resonance and emotional kick shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer offered in my teens and early 20s won't stick. Lately, I've been thinking about what would happen if now, in my 30s, I started to re-watch the shows that resonated so deeply with me as a youth.
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