The song soundtrack also adds an element of nifty nostalgia to the proceedings. Jackson, only here with two good eyes and made to look a quarter-century younger by a digital fountain of youth.īecause the action takes place in 1995, directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (who also share script credit with Geneva Robertson-Dworet) have considerable fun stepping into the way-back machine – having Danvers crash-land into a Blockbuster Video store, while dealing with the indignity of clunky box-shaped computers. It’s there, somewhat belatedly, where the movie temporarily sparks to life, as Captain Marvel starts to remember her past, while joining forces with a young Agent of SHIELD named Nick Fury, as usual played by Samuel L. “Captain Marvel” does play with conventional assumptions about good and evil, and even incorporates a not-so-subtle message about refugees, as the conflict spills down to a nondescript orb called Earth, which one alien visitor dismisses as a backwater planet using a slightly vulgar if of late familiar term. The film essentially must work backward toward Carol’s origin story, explaining how she wound up among the Kree, a noble warrior race, in their pitched battle with the shape-shifting Skrulls, who won’t win any beauty contests in their original green-skinned form. Part of the challenge that the movie faces involves the dense backstory of Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), who finds herself in the middle of an intergalactic war between two alien races, the Kree and the Skrulls, when the action begins. Despite marking the studio’s first solo outing with a female superhero, the result feels like one of Marvel’s lesser lights – a dutiful cog in its vaunted cinematic universe as opposed to any sort of breakthrough. “ Captain Marvel” features an alien culture governed by the “Supreme Intelligence,” which is as good a description as any of Marvel, the well-oiled hit machine behind it.
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