There are a bunch of shills on the Social Media Platform Formerly Known as Twitter that will tell you that only men are dunking on the latest superhero film from Disney. Yeah, not to much. Lisa Johnson Mandell from At Home In Hollywood: THE MARVELS Review — This is the Best Marvel Can Do Now?
As all the most frustrating Marvel movies do, we are plunged into frantic action from the very beginning, with very little exposition or backstory to explain who these people are, who’s fighting whom and why. Unless you remember all the details of 2019’s Captain Marvel, and have seen every Marvel movie and TV series since then, you’re going to feel lost most of the time.
At least the plot is familiar to the point of triteness. A villain (or in this case, a villainess) is seeking all the power so she can wreck revenge and take over the universe. Gee, we’ve never seen that before.
And that is the "good" part of the review. Well, she does offer up this.
You’ve got to give credit to the three female leads, Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris and Iman Vellani, for trying.
Try harder next time. And also get better writers. The clips I've seen, and the plot leaks I've read are enough to convince me to not spend money on this travesty. But then I lost faith in Kevin Feige and Disney/Marvel a long way back.
She goes on about the cats, how Nia DaCosta, and the film, try too hard, and mostly come up short.
It’s a garish, overstuffed, nonsensical, mismatched cacophony of a film that seems to exist merely because it’s a designated part of the Marvel Universe. It tries too hard on every level, and achieves excellence on none of them.
Marvel needs to throw in the towel, and take a break. And when they come back (5 or 10 years) they need to stop with the Panderverse and the need to stop with the Woke, and make movies that people actually want to see.
The best explanation of what happened to Disney/Marvel, and how the M-She-U came to be, comes from Andre Einherjar from Midnight's Edge. Kathleen Kennedy HUMILIATED by South Park, FURIOUS and wants REVENGE!?! He covers the South Park special and it's treatment of Kathleen Kennedy, but says that South Park should have dealt with Bob Iger, Kevin Feige, and the current state of the Disney/Marvel.
"The best explanation of what happened to Disney/Marvel..." I'm not so sure it's Kathleen Kennedy, Bob Iger or Kevin Feige.
ReplyDeleteConsider the passing of Stan Lee seems to have been right around the time it all went downhill. Stan (they say) still had creative influence in a lot of ways and he definitely had a way with character development. At the time, there were people saying without Stan the whole empire would crash and burn, and after the end of the last big story arc that he was part of, Avengers End Game, it pretty much has.
I've read that The Marvels is the shortest MCU movie of all and figure that's probably because it didn't do well in test screenings (early last summer?) and they edited too much out. I get confused looking at the trailers. I'm sure I don't remember everything about Captain Marvel, I'm roughly familiar with Monica Rambeau, and vaguely aware of the "Miss Marvel" (?? - kid). I have a feeling it'll be on Disney+ by January.
On the other hand, the DC universe seems to be stuck in an endless loop telling us Batman's backstory, doing three films, and starting over. (Or Superman. Or Aquaman. Or Wonder Woman. And so on.) Do they think the actors get too old by the third movie or that after the 3 to 6 years of the three-movie arc that it's an entirely new audience and nobody knows about Bruce Wayne's parents, for example?
Ike Perlmutter got cut out of all control of Marvel movies around the time of Avengers Endgame. (Shortly before?) His role was mostly to ride herd on Kevin F. by making sure that the scripts were mostly ready before shooting started. Under Kevin F. the reports are that chaos is the mode of operation. (One of the movies they threw out the script about a week before shooting started, and just made everything up on the fly around the "big fight scenes" they had already worked on.)
DeleteI'm sure Stan Lee had some impact, but Disney started killing Marvel the day the bought it, and have finished it up now.
I should have mentioned that "the plot leaks" include the COMPLETE plot - minus what have been described as a couple of last minute additions. The plot was leaked on 4chan, and subsequently copied to Reddit.
ReplyDeleteMarvel M-She-U - LOL! Good one.
ReplyDeleteI didn't come up with that. I think Gary at Nerdrotic did. He certainly made it popular.
DeleteAndre Einherjar at Midnight's Edge - he just published a video - does credit Gary with coining the term M-She-U
DeleteIt's very funny! Listening to your JP music while replying. 👍
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