Look y'all, I'm just here to be entertained. On that level I haven't been disappointed by a Marvel movie yet.
You want something deeper? Maybe comic book movies aren't for you anymore, and that's okay.
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Beastie boys not at all a good fit for the soundtrack here, but maybe that's just me.
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The trailer explains pretty much the whole premise right there. Each of them has powers (who cares where they came from?), and they're all entangled so they swap places when they use them.
If you want deeper backstory, the upside is that the two shows that contain it are among the best shows Marvel has done so far.
The entanglement aspect looks like a clever plot device, but I don't know how they are going to get the audience to care about Captain Marvel. The first movie really undercut our ability to care about this character. She was just a Mary Sue for the entire movie. We never see her struggle or grow. She's always just perfect at everything. It keeps her character unrelatable.
Anything related to Capt. Marvel I'm having a hard time caring about. Secret Invasion has been a giant flop for me and I particularly think how the Skrulls were brought into the MCU via Capt. Marvel was just kind of dumb and it's creating this weird jarring effect where we're supposed to be sympathetic towards them, but they're the bad guys and it's just creating this mismatch where I feel nothing towards any of it. I get having sympathetic bad guys, but the way it was handled all felt very clumsy and rushed. Just terrible writing on top of everything.
If anything, the Skrull threat should've been unresolved in Capt. Marvel (not make them suddenly our friends), like that movie should have been the set-up for Secret Invasion and they should have been seeding stuff here and there for it throughout Phase 4, letting things come to a head in Secret Invasion. Obviously that still would've been weird, given that it took place in-between Infinity War and Endgame, but that was always going to be the case unless they had tied the movie in more with the Infinity saga (apart from her just getting her powers from an infinity stone or whatever happened).
I had avoided Ms. Marvel because I just don't care about the character, though I'll probably binge it in the next week before I cancel my D+ subscription after Secret Invasion ends, just to say I've watched it. Hopefully going in with low expectations will somehow make it better.
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Hard pass.