“Captain Marvel” was a enjoyable departure from customary MCU movies, happening up to now and looping Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury into the story. The movie’s plot — to not point out its billion-dollar field workplace gross — demanded a sequel, however it did not arrive for years. Within the meantime, Disney launched “WandaVision” and “Ms. Marvel” on Disney+, and whereas “WandaVision” at the very least did nicely, each sequence additionally turned a prerequisite for “The Marvels.”
You would watch “The Marvels” with out realizing who the grownup Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) or Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) are, however you would be fairly misplaced. The movie’s exposition virtually calls for that you just already know these reveals earlier than watching the film, which alienated some viewers. The movie was additionally set after one other failed Marvel sequence, “Secret Invasion,” which did not carry out nicely for Disney+, inflicting extra issues.
“The Marvels” is a enjoyable but unimportant superhero film starring three protagonists solely a handful of viewers know nicely sufficient to observe. Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel was absolutely established, however the different two weren’t. A near-total lack of promotion as a result of SAG-AFTRA strike, scenes set on a planet the place everybody sings, a B-grade villain, and superhero fatigue did not assist this $219.8 million field workplace bomb that solely made $206 million on the field workplace.