{"id":138108,"date":"2019-03-08T22:45:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T05:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138108"},"modified":"2019-03-08T22:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T05:50:01","slug":"movie-review-captain-marvel-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/08\/movie-review-captain-marvel-2019.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: “Captain Marvel” (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Short NO-SPOILER<\/strong> version:\u00a0Captain Marvel,<\/em>\u00a0for me,\u00a0is an entertaining and enjoyable MCU film, but not a great one, largely because it never quite engaged me with enough emotional or narrative stakes to keep me at the edge of my seat.<\/p>\n

Brie Larson (along with everyone else) is likeable and strong and interesting, and I don’t feel at all like I got ripped off buying a movie ticket for this (versus, say\u00a0Iron Man 2),\u00a0<\/em>and I even think it’s (just) worth seeing in a theater vs waiting for home release. But if this is the character that Marvel is planning on hinging the next phase of the MCU on, then her anticipated activities in\u00a0Avengers: Endgame<\/em> had best be a tick up from what we get here.<\/p>\n

Rating:\u00a0\u2605\u2605\u2605 \u00bd of 5 (with a \u2665)<\/p>\n

Note: The movie has two in-credit scenes, a “big picture” one after the initial animated credits, and then a charming denouement after the credits are over. Worth sitting through.<\/p>\n

If you want a few more spoilers<\/strong>, here’s my Letterboxd review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Short NO-SPOILER version:\u00a0Captain Marvel,\u00a0for me,\u00a0is an entertaining and enjoyable MCU film, but not a great one, largely because it never quite engaged me with enough emotional or narrative stakes to keep me at the edge of my seat. Brie Larson (along with everyone else) is likeable and strong and interesting, and I don’t feel at … Continue reading “Movie Review: “Captain Marvel” (2019)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[525,41],"tags":[1234,1779],"class_list":["post-138108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","category-media-movies","tag-mcu","tag-nospoilers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Captain-Marvel-movie-poster.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135611,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/11\/movie-review-spider-man-homecoming-2017.html","url_meta":{"origin":138108,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: “Spider-Man: Homecoming” (2017)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 11-Dec-17 8:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I know I'm late to the game with this one, because, honestly, I've been burned out on Spidey -- in movies and comic books -- for quite a while. 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