I didn't see Ms Marvel yet, but somehow it doesn't seem like I missed much, you get her gimmick pretty fast, character and plot wise.
However there are other stuff that I missed, and this made me kinda lost there. I guess some of it is that I forgot the specifics of Captain Marvel 1, but I don't think it really dealt with the consequences or introduced the characters we there (on the villains sides). Is the Kree civil war, the end of their world shown somewhere and Dar-Benn introduced ?
Guessing the Skrulls and Nick Fury living in a space station are coming from Secret Invasion ?
On top of the initial confusion from these, the initial action scenes are really confusing too, with a lot of switching going on, while the rules of it are not clear.
Overall, the atmosphere is a bit too forcibly cute to my taste, and this is something that permeates through all thing, end to end.
1) I was clearly not the target audience for the whole part of turning Captain Marvel into a Disney Princess that has to sing to talk. Fun concept to introduce, but long and annoying sequence. Actually, the best part of it was literally when it stopped because "the Prince is bilingual". That was hilarious. A bit long to get to this punchline, but hilarious. I know there's a target audience though, and I guess lots of people loved it.
2) Kamala's relationship with Carol is basically an edulcorated version of Peter with Tony. Again, I'm definitely not the targeted audience, I'll take sarcasm over carebear world any time, but I can understand the appeal.
3) During the fights, while switching is taking place, there are enemies that can fight on par (at least for a while) with Monica, and even withstand Captain Marvel's shots. But it also seems that while no one else is fighting them, Kamala's family is able to keep them down with a broom. Again I get the childish appeal, but come on !
4) When evacuating the station I thought "Well duh, just put them all in the cat!" and that it would be a great idea. But they had to force it to cuteness overload with a swarm of kittens. And I love those, but once again, come on ! Know when to stop.
5) The switch training had to happen, but again, seriously ? Playing playground games ?
Anyway the concept of the switching is actually good. But it is somehow overused in the beginning when it's a bit confusing, and then underused as a battle mechanism.
Not clear how the Kree stealing portal works. They seem to just open a portal, so ok, a portal from a place with atmosphere to a place without will work that way and suck it. But how the hell does it absorbs just water in tiny tornadoes ? (By the way, no one ever wonders what happened to the people on the water planet afterwards...) And as for stealing the Sun, it's show as starting, and then totally forgotten also.
The final part is really out of nowhere. Since when did Monica had the power to absorb and store then redistribute energy ? Never been seen or used. And to understand a break in space time and know how to fix it ? Also what did Carol did not understand in "from the other side" ? And using both bracelets instantly vaporized Dar-Benn, but Kamala can effortlessly ? By the way, why would the two responsible adults around even let her try ?
Wow. Actually after seeing it, I thought it was kinda ok, even if low for a Marvel, entertainment. But thinking about it afterwards I realize it's really missing a lot. Basically starts with confusing switching and an unintroduced antagonist (from what I could read, I did not miss these explanations from another movie or show, it was just not presented before). Then Skrull planet. Disney water planet. Out of nowhere ending. With the whole space station part being just filler. Everything sugarcoated, with plot holes and abandonned loose ends.
In the end I guess it's a Marvel directed at an audience of children, specially young girls. Good that it exists, but not really my thing.
Review by FLYVIP 2BlockedParent2023-11-19T18:42:50Z
I didn't see Ms Marvel yet, but somehow it doesn't seem like I missed much, you get her gimmick pretty fast, character and plot wise.
However there are other stuff that I missed, and this made me kinda lost there. I guess some of it is that I forgot the specifics of Captain Marvel 1, but I don't think it really dealt with the consequences or introduced the characters we there (on the villains sides). Is the Kree civil war, the end of their world shown somewhere and Dar-Benn introduced ?
Guessing the Skrulls and Nick Fury living in a space station are coming from Secret Invasion ?
On top of the initial confusion from these, the initial action scenes are really confusing too, with a lot of switching going on, while the rules of it are not clear.
Overall, the atmosphere is a bit too forcibly cute to my taste, and this is something that permeates through all thing, end to end.
1) I was clearly not the target audience for the whole part of turning Captain Marvel into a Disney Princess that has to sing to talk. Fun concept to introduce, but long and annoying sequence. Actually, the best part of it was literally when it stopped because "the Prince is bilingual". That was hilarious. A bit long to get to this punchline, but hilarious. I know there's a target audience though, and I guess lots of people loved it.
2) Kamala's relationship with Carol is basically an edulcorated version of Peter with Tony. Again, I'm definitely not the targeted audience, I'll take sarcasm over carebear world any time, but I can understand the appeal.
3) During the fights, while switching is taking place, there are enemies that can fight on par (at least for a while) with Monica, and even withstand Captain Marvel's shots. But it also seems that while no one else is fighting them, Kamala's family is able to keep them down with a broom. Again I get the childish appeal, but come on !
4) When evacuating the station I thought "Well duh, just put them all in the cat!" and that it would be a great idea. But they had to force it to cuteness overload with a swarm of kittens. And I love those, but once again, come on ! Know when to stop.
5) The switch training had to happen, but again, seriously ? Playing playground games ?
Anyway the concept of the switching is actually good. But it is somehow overused in the beginning when it's a bit confusing, and then underused as a battle mechanism.
Not clear how the Kree stealing portal works. They seem to just open a portal, so ok, a portal from a place with atmosphere to a place without will work that way and suck it. But how the hell does it absorbs just water in tiny tornadoes ? (By the way, no one ever wonders what happened to the people on the water planet afterwards...)
And as for stealing the Sun, it's show as starting, and then totally forgotten also.
The final part is really out of nowhere. Since when did Monica had the power to absorb and store then redistribute energy ? Never been seen or used. And to understand a break in space time and know how to fix it ? Also what did Carol did not understand in "from the other side" ?
And using both bracelets instantly vaporized Dar-Benn, but Kamala can effortlessly ? By the way, why would the two responsible adults around even let her try ?
Wow. Actually after seeing it, I thought it was kinda ok, even if low for a Marvel, entertainment. But thinking about it afterwards I realize it's really missing a lot.
Basically starts with confusing switching and an unintroduced antagonist (from what I could read, I did not miss these explanations from another movie or show, it was just not presented before).
Then Skrull planet. Disney water planet. Out of nowhere ending. With the whole space station part being just filler. Everything sugarcoated, with plot holes and abandonned loose ends.
In the end I guess it's a Marvel directed at an audience of children, specially young girls. Good that it exists, but not really my thing.