I really don't like how Yon-Rogg is written. Sure, he's an utter bastard in the comics and is slightly more heroic here, but his emotional connection to Carol as an evil mentor didn't work for me. It certainly made "I don't need to prove myself to you" ring a bit more hollow. I never bought that he was the evil Obi-Wan to Carol's good Vader.
It was a Flerken and only happens to look like a cat but isn't a cat kind of like Rocket isn't a racoon. It's an alien with a pocket dimension in it's stomach.
But go ahead and hate on the 'cat'. It was the best part of the movie which I place almost at the bottom of the heap. I almost couldn't wait until it ended. I was very underwhelmed, it just seemed so bland. I didn't hate it, but I doubt there will be another theatrical viewing for me which is unusual with an MCU movie.
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I will try to keep SPOILERS to a minimum but won't promise none since the thread title warns of spoilers.
It was great! All the arguments leading up to it, sight unseen, seem ridiculous now.
Great tribute at the very beginning to Stan Lee.
I'll admit the movie started slow and I was beginning to think that maybe all the youtube critics were right in saying that it was an average MCU movie which is still good but not standout. It was also very convoluted at the start, one of those "Pulp Fiction" jumping around time things that has you hoping this will eventually make sense. And does it ever end up making sense.
To those who had seen and reviewed the movie on youtube and kept saying she starts and ends as the same character, never smiles or shows vulnerability, I guess I can only go with the classic: What theater room were you in and what movie were you watching while I was watching "Captain Marvel"?
She shows emotions and vulnerability all the time in the way you would expect a good performer to do it, with subtle expressions and body language along with sometimes tearing up. She smiles again and again and again. She shows emotional vulnerability constantly.
There are not obvious Female Empowerment speeches. In the best tradition of female action heroines, she doesn't talk about it, she just does it and there's no implication of anybody being on the right or wrong side because of their gender.
It's got some amazing effects and action but it never lets that be the star of the show. It always comes back to being able people.
The camaraderie between Danvers and Jackson is impressive. Like most Marvel movies, the jokes sometimes get a bit tiresome but that doesn't seem to be a problem with most MCU viewers. The cat is funny but that part does get too silly in a couple of ways.
I can see a concern that, as powerful as she is, will she dominate the next Avengers movie? But that's like asking if Captain America will be irrelevant because Thor and Iron-Man are there. I am sure she will be utilized in a way that everyone is the star in their own way just as in "Infinity War".
The de-aging technology is phenomenal. Jackson looks like he's in his mid-forties and Coulson could be a graduate student.
They nicely worked MCU versions of other versions of Captain Marvel into the story.
As to the Skrulls, I'll just say that in their first comic book appearance in 1961, they were a reflection of that time. Now they are a reflection of the more current situation.
Captain Marvel as a character might best be defined by: She's "only" human. That means she gets knocked down a lot but it also means she always stands back up and keeps trying.
Power with Girl is better.
I will say that I don't really buy that he would not have called her for an alien invasion but would call her for a situation that seems minor. As far as he
knows, a few people have disappeared. Unless he had some inside information we don't know about and already had info about Thanos. It's just one of those plot holes in the overall narrative that has happened many times before.
Power with Girl is better.