Captain Marvel Movie Review

DON’T READ ON IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE ANY SPOILERS! 

To be honest, I was a little skeptical about seeing this film, as I had heard really mixed reviews from people online, and plus I wasn’t really hyped about seeing in. The main reason I wanted to see it was to just see the post credit scene to find how it would link to Endgame. But I was pleasantly surprised, and really enjoyed it. 

Me and Callum went to see it on the UK release day (March 8^th), and this was because we wanted to get the free poster from Odeon. We had collected all the Infinity War and Ant Man and The Wasp posters, so we left like we needed to continue this tradition. Obviously, March 8^th was International Women’s Day, and I feel that this was the perfect film to watch. It was focused more on female empowerment and believing in yourself, rather than focusing on the fact that she was a woman. The story had an amazing message, teaching young girls to not be afraid of being themselves, and defying the stereotypes that society has placed upon then, and what better way to do it than through Marvel.  

Humour wise, I’d say that it was on par with Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man, both of which I find are comical films, Guardians of the Galaxy being my favorite out of the whole MCU. I think this is all down to Nick Fury’s well placed humour and Goose the Cat (who is an alien by the way, but this is kind of spoilt in The Disney Store figure set, but we can move past that one!)  Goose was such a dark horse kind of character, show through the connection through Nick Fury, and I think that it is their relationship that makes it more comical.  

The only part that was confusing for me was that it was set in the 1990s, so when it was released, it doesn’t fit into the MCU at that part. With Captain America: The First Avenger being set in the early 1900s, Captain Marvel should immediately follow this. The main giveaway is that The Skrulls become the “badies” further down the timeline. For some who had possibly not followed The Universe from the beginning, this would get confusing. However, the post credit scenes that followed both Avengers :Infinity War and Captain Marvel made the perfect segway for Endgame being released in April (who is also excited?!) At the end of Infinity War, we saw Nick Fury and the pager, where Captain Marvels logo appeared. We see this is the first post credit scene of Captain Marvel where Black Widow, Hulk (or Bruce Banner at this point) and Captain America, all looking at this pager (Marvel told Fury to us it if he ever needed help, which is why it featured at the end of Infinity War). Captain Marvel enters and asks where Fury is, showing the link here.

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We now know that Captain Marvel will feature in Endgame, along with Ant Man, featured in the post credit scenes to that film. The second scene was very much like Ant Man and The Wasp (with the pet ant playing the drums), but this time it is Goose the cat (the Flerken) trying to gag up the Tesseract, which we see him (if you can even call him a him) swallow in the film. Kind of disgusting to watch, but you can’t hate Goose either.  

All in all, I was definitley not disappointed by this film, and it was the perfect lead up to Avengers: Endgame, roll on April 26^th. Kind of hoping Odeon does another poster set so then it gives me an excuse to see it 3 times again!