After 10 years and 20 films, the first female superhero in the MCU finally got her own solo movie. And this before the big finale, before the gigantic endgame, to which the MCU was steered.

Non-fans, if they haven't informed themselves before, will have their difficulties with the character of Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel is a complicated character and also part of the well known superheroes of the MCU and is surely a member of the Avengers. The figure was for the first time drawn in 1937. Later the character was became part of Marvel and 1967 he got his first entrance in the Marvel world. The very first Captain Marvel figure was a man. Later this character died and passed on his superhero status and so it came that also a woman took over this role with the Name Ms. Marvel. More later the creators decided to give her the name Captain Marvel back. And exactly this episode we see in the new Marvel Movie.

That means that the Marvel Studios didn't start to show new superheroes in female form, but it is exactly the story that is told in the comics, of course better tuned to the audience. Moreover, Captain Marvel is one of the most powerful characters in the whole Marvel universe, comparable to Superman from the DC Comics, but as a non fan, you can't know that, of course.

The Story:

The ancient alien races of the Kree and the Skrull have been at war for eons. In 1995, in our time, Vers, her mentor Yon-Rogg and a few other Kree set out on a mission where they were ambushed by the Skrull. Vers is captured by the Skrull and they try to get informations out of her memories. Vers can free herself and flee to earth, where she begins to get her true identity out. Gradually she discovers that she has been used by the Kree and her mentor and is in the middle of a conspiracy.

Together with the young S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Nick Fury, Vers tries to solve the mystery of her origin. But they have to hurry, because by her stay on earth the war between the Kree and the Skrull will also come to earth...

My Opinion:

Old comic book fans knew who Nick Fury called at the end of Avengers Infinity War, just before half of the life in the whole universe disintegrated. For non fans the Captain Marvel movie is a good enlightenment and also a good pre-story, which makes the endgame against Thanos more exciting. Captain Marvel is an Origin Story, as we know it from the MCU, but packed a bit differently. Because the hero doesn't even know who she is and where she gets her powers from. The movie starts without a real pre-story as you are used to it. Again and again there are memorabilia of the heroine, which are dissolved with time until the end of the movie.

The movie isn't really a masterpiece from Marvel's house, as you usually know it from other movies of the brand. The characters are too superficial and there is simply no depth to cheer for the heroine played by Brie Larson. Nevertheless, Brie Larson does her job very well in her Kick-Ass lead role and always gets into a brave fight. She shows little or no weakness, knows how to stand up again and again and always has a smile on her face. We have never seen another hero in the MCU before like her- so tough she is.

The whole 90s flair in the movie also comes out very well with corresponding music. You see a Game Boy, Windows 95, too long loading CD-Roms and much more, which gives a nice feeling to a generation where i count myself. You can hardly see the rejuvenation of Samuel L. Jackson through CGI and all this is mixed with aliens and their high-tech trying to destroy this world.

As I already mentioned, the movie isn't a masterpiece but also not a flop. It starts off well at the beginning, but then takes a long break, where there is always a switch between the 90s and the aliens with their high-tecch and builds on an explosion, where at the end everything the movie missed before, is caught up.

I don't know but I think that this was done consciously and despite the new narrative style, the makers probably didn't want to experiment too much. Especially because Endgame will tie in directly with this movie. Maybe it was because they didn't want to take Endgame the air out and they serve Captain Marvel as an appetizer before the real main menu was served, which everyone was waiting for!

You should definitely have to watch Captain Marvel if you want to understand who Nick Fury is calling with the pager at the end of Infinity War and why this character will play an important role in the future of the MCU.

Because Captain Marvel the movie is like a snack for in between, it got a corresponding rating from me of only 7 stars at IMDb - if I could, I'd give it 6.8 stars.

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