The Marvels (2023)
Directed by Nia DaCosta
When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, Carol's powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol's estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team up and learn to work in concert to save the universe.
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What critics compared The Marvels to
Thor: Love and Thunder, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, The Marvels, Deadpool & Wolverine…
…and similarly CGAF about The Marvels…
…its downs, like Nia DaCosta’s muddled The Marvels…
The last time Marvel introduced an ensemble to theaters, in 2023’s uninspiringly titled "The Marvels," the studio suffered its first box office bomb.
With a string of underwhelming box office results — including Eternals, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, The Marvels, and the recently disappointing Captain America: Brave New World…
Film entries such as The Marvels and Captain America: Brave New World have felt more like recap sessions than compelling stories…
Movies like The Eternals, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, The Marvels, Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps all disappointed expectations to outright bombed at the box office.
…or The Marvels…
The group efforts that audiences didn’t connect with, like “Eternals” and the criminally undervalued “The Marvels.”
…some team-ups (Thunderbolts, The Marvels)…
…or the third act of The Marvels…
Even if the film suffers a significant second weekend drop like The Marvels (79% after a $46.1 million opening)…
…the criminally underrated The Marvels…
…danger music score of Laura Karpman (The Marvels)…
…a non-stop stream of ‘kill-me-now’ excrement like Elektra, Eternals, The Marvels, Black Adam, Catwoman, The Green Hornet,, Morbius, Madame Web, Venom and more…
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…this is neither as brightly coloured nor as punchy as The Marvels.
The Bone Temple feels like another for-hire franchise job in the same vein as The Marvels and Candyman, where she mainly functions to serve the established mold of a series needing to meet particular obligations.
I’m one who actually thought her parts of The Marvels showed great creativity…
The MCU model, already shaky and precarious by the time DaCosta helmed The Marvels…
DaCosta, best known for the 2021 Candyman sequel (or infamously for directing 2023’s The Marvels, Marvel’s lowest-grossing film), injects fresh blood into the franchise.
We could blame director Nia DaCosta, still smarting over her disastrous MCU debut (“The Marvels”), for the anemic sequel.
I keep seeing people say, “There’s no way it’s worse than Madame Web or The Marvels,” but I genuinely think it is.