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Captain Marvel Movie Review

Captain Marvel Review (no spoilers that haven't been seen in trailers):

Rating: Captain Marvel gets 5 out of 5 Power Blasters!

Quite simply, Captain Marvel is Marvel-ous. Andrea and walked out of the theater and the first 2 things we said were "I can't believe people have been giving this movie average reviews." and "This was better than Wonder Woman."

Now, for the details.

This is non-stop action from beginning to end. Even the few part where they have the obligatory talking, such as when Marvel and Fury are driving or sitting and talking, or when Marvel is reunited with her old pilot friend, are kept to a minimum and the conversations are short.

People have complained on line that the movie spends too much time on her backstory. Bull. It's done very effectively and it's just as exciting as the events that take place in real time.

As always, there is just the right mix of humor in the movies, with all the characters, even the bad guys, getting off good one-liners.

The acting is excellent. Bree, a subdued and more light-hearted Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law, and Ben Mendolsohn all do fantastic jobs with their parts. Mendolsohn, in particular, displays a droll wit that had me laughing.

There are some nice twists in the movie, a few of which have upset fans of the comic book series, but I enjoyed them. As long as you're not expecting this to be an exact clone of the comics, you shouldn't care, either.

The movie does a nice job of setting up Capt. Marvel's appearance in the next Avengers' movie (and lets us in on how the Avengers gets started in the first place) without giving anything away, and even links back to Captain America and the original Avengers movies in a neat way.

With all the great Marvel Comics movies (and now with DC finally getting its shit together and doing decent movies that follow the Marvel format), it's getting harder and harder to place the movies in a specific order of greatness. So instead, I've taken to grouping them. Best group, next batch, and so on down to the bottom of the barrel (Superman, Batman).

With that in mind, here is how Captain Marvel fits into my rating system:


Best of the Best:
Spider-Man 1 (Toby Maguire)
Iron Man 1
Avengers (1, Infinity War, tie)
Guardians of the Galaxy 1
Captain Marvel

Really Great:
Thor: Ragnorok
Deadpool
X-men & X2 (tied)
Captain America (1, Winter Soldier, tie)
Black Panther
Wonder Woman
Iron Man 3 & Spider-Man Homecoming (tied)
X-men: Origins
The Amazin Spider Man /Amazing 2 (tied)

Damn Good but not Perfect:
Aquaman & Fantastic 4 (first one, in 2005)
Thor Dark World
Iron Man 2
Spider-Man 2 and 3 (Toby) (tied)
X-men: First Class
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Dr. Strange & Ant Man 1 (tied)
X-men: Last Stand
The Wolverine
Deadpool 2

Okay, but Not Great:
FF4 - Silver Surfer
X-men: Days of Future Past
Age of Ultron
Ant Man & Wasp
Justice League
Ghostrider

Bottom of the Barrel:
Batman v Superman
The first 2 Hulk movies (Hulk, Incredible Hulk)
The Dark Knight Rises
The Dark Knight
Batman Begins
Man of Steel
The new Fantastic 4 (2015)
Green Lantern

Skip them and Watch Married with Children reruns:
Any earlier Batman or Superman movies
Daredevil
Catwoman
Elektra
Ghostrider 2

Comments

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    Lately, I've fallen out of watching Marvel and DC movies, but this does sound like a good one, and I always make an exception for Thor.

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