☆☆☆½
Just a few months after the brilliant, captivating, splendid, altogether wonderful Spider-Man: Into the Universe showed us that all Marvel movies don't need to look alike, here comes Captain Marvel to remind us that just because they don't have to doesn't mean they won't. Captain Marvel looks, feels and behaves so much like other Marvel movies that when two of the films come together in an end-credits sequence, there's absolutely no stylistic clash. If nothing else, these movies are impressive in their sameness.
Still, there's always some room for customization, and after an elaborate, effects-laden, alien-world opening, the title character in Captain Marvel winds up on Earth in the mid-1990s, and for about 45 minutes it's all breezy, easy fun. Aside from the endlessly distracting "de-aging" done to actors Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg, Captain Marvel offers more than most Marvel films to recommend it in its amusing, lovingly maintained '90s vibe and period touches. Leave it to Marvel to make the 1990s into a "period piece."
The Earth-bound scenes are the best part of the movie, and for a long time make Captain Marvel the most enjoyable of the Marvel films. It finds and maintains its humor and is helped by a totally game (though oddly bland) Brie Larson in the empowering title role.
Surrounding that specialness is standard-issue Marveldom, filled with A-list actors earning huge paydays and lots of CGI razzle-dazzle. It works exactly as well as it needs to, sometimes a little better.
Viewed March 7, 2019 -- ArcLight Hollywood
2030
Still, there's always some room for customization, and after an elaborate, effects-laden, alien-world opening, the title character in Captain Marvel winds up on Earth in the mid-1990s, and for about 45 minutes it's all breezy, easy fun. Aside from the endlessly distracting "de-aging" done to actors Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg, Captain Marvel offers more than most Marvel films to recommend it in its amusing, lovingly maintained '90s vibe and period touches. Leave it to Marvel to make the 1990s into a "period piece."
The Earth-bound scenes are the best part of the movie, and for a long time make Captain Marvel the most enjoyable of the Marvel films. It finds and maintains its humor and is helped by a totally game (though oddly bland) Brie Larson in the empowering title role.
Surrounding that specialness is standard-issue Marveldom, filled with A-list actors earning huge paydays and lots of CGI razzle-dazzle. It works exactly as well as it needs to, sometimes a little better.
Viewed March 7, 2019 -- ArcLight Hollywood
2030
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