Director: Nia DaCosta
Actors: Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Samuel L Jackson
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action
Rating: M
‘The Marvels’ is the sequel to ‘Captain Marvel’ and the first time we’ve seen Carol Danvers (Larson) since ‘Avengers: Endgame’. The difference this time is that this time, fate brings her, Monica Rambeau (Parris, introduced in ‘WandaVision’) and Kamala Khan (Vellani, introduced in ‘Ms Marvel’) together to stop the new Kree threat this time, Dar-Benn (Ashton). Tying it all together, like he’s done so many times, in Nick Fury (Jackson) – but he has a lot more levity here than in ‘Secret Invasion’, thankfully.
There’s a bit of background to the Kree/Skull war,
but not too much – but the best aliens are still the cats/Flerken, who have a
nice mini-role to play. Special mention to the singing/choreography-dancing
aliens on the water planet too. Besides stopping the Kree from destroying more
worlds, the main plot point is the three lead characters finding out how to use
their light-powers together and complement heach other. This is helped by Kamala
enthusiasm and teenage idealism – like the show, this is a real breath of fresh
air and balances well with Carol and Monica.
We also get Kamala’s mum, dad and brother, who also
add some nice heart and humour, including with Fury and during the initial place-swapping
scenes. There’s some middling battle scenes, but some nice CGI and planets
throughout. The ending is mostly satisfying, with a good mid-credits scene.
Overall: Good standalone buddy adventure
Gav's Rating: 3.5 stars
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