MOVIE REVIEW — Captain Marvel

Mother-Flerken, This Movie is Great!

Captain Marvel marks Marvel’s 21st entry into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe (that’s A LOT of Marvel in one sentence). With their most recent release Marvel Studios is finally bringing their first female-led superhero film to the big-screen, following in the footsteps of DC’s Wonder Woman in 2017. In the lead-up to the newest filn in the MCU, it is more than likely that you have seen some of the controversy surrounding Captain Marvel, and more specifically Brie Larson. The actress stated that she wanted her press tour to be “less white” which many took as an attack on ALL white males for some reason, deciding to piggyback on an earlier comment she made in which she mentioned that there needed to be a reassessment of critics in Hollywood, with the vast majority of them being old white men. Brie Larson never said that she did not want white men seeing this movie, continually stating that she doesn’t hate white people and just wanted Captain Marvel and Hollywood in general to be a more inclusive space. Since then a boycott has been called from trolls across the internet in an attempt to destroy the film’s reception, with it currently sitting at a 34% on Rotten Tomatoes audience score with 58,000+ reviews. In comparison, Avengers: Infinity War which is one of the biggest movies of all time, released almost a year ago, has only 52,000 audience reviews compared to Captain Marvel which has been out for less than 24 hours. Personally as a white male, I can say that I was not offended and do not see any issue with her comments, as the film industry does need to open its doors in an effort to increase diversity.

This whole situation is a shame, however it does not seem likely that it will end up hurting the film’s success with it being tracked do quite well on its opening weekend. With all of that background information being laid out as clear as possible, here is my review for Captain Marvel.