The Marvels - Movie Review
all right can it finally be accepted reality that this kind of crap is written by AI I mean is it [Music] not had to say crap at the beginning of this video for YouTube monetization purposes the AI bot really hates it when you swear in the first few seconds of your video that said we're more than a few seconds in now so what the man so in this time of MCU phase four and five otherwise known as post end game MCU DLC we now have the Marvels Captain Marvel Monica Rambo and Miss Marvel Kamala Khan they all team up and something happens to where when one uses their powers they'll swap with the other one and I got to say when I saw the first trailer for the Marvels which heavily concentrated on that mechanic I was like that could be fun I don't know that that mechanic had to be some super big budget MCU monstrosity I mean you could have had an indie film with that premise and that would have been fun that would have been fine everything everywhere swapping around working title but you get what I mean that simple premise of fun just feels like it's in something that's overproduced and inflated then when I saw the second trailer that just looked like generic big budget MCU space adventure nonsense I was like there it is I got to give props and credit where credits do Iman volan who plays Kamala Khan Miss Marvel I thought she was great in fact she was the screen presence in the entire film I've not seen Miss Marvel so this is my introduction to her but I have heard she's great in Miss Marvel and I do get it after see in this she has an endearing quality to her it might actually be real life bleeding over onto the screen a fan girl who's now playing in the sandbox she once dreamed about playing in it works she was actually the heart of the movie there's a whole Captain Marvel Monica Rambo connection that's supposed to be heartfelt it I mean it was there you're going to hear me say that a lot in here I feel well that was there guess we should talk about that Carol danver's Monica Rambo they have this connection of the past and there are times you feel like oh hey that it's it's kind of getting there maybe it does more than I'm giving it credit here but it's really hard for those emotional moments to come through when the movie that's built around it is crap actually to be fair I thought there was a really good scene dealing with Monica Rambo's emotional past when they all put on the demolition men head pieces I thought that was good the Monica Rambo Carol Danver Dynamic landed a lot better than the Carol Danver villain Dynamic Monica Rambo for the most part I was like what is it you do here such a bummer because during and after wand Division I was interested as to where they were going to take that character by the end her entire character was relegated to just being a McGuffin but all in all I saw Captain Marvel I saw W division I've never seen Miss Marvel and Miss Marvel I thought was the best character of The Three As for the villain in this movie darb Ben don't know much about the character from the comic books looked up a little bit before he started doing the review didn't do a big deep dive or anything but from what I read it sounds like it would have been really easy to take this new villain just turn this new character into Dollar Store roning the accuser or something and that's exactly what they did the villain in this movie is the absolute worst and that's in the MCU that's saying something the kind of impressive where they had to try to it up this badly feel like the conversation was no deeper than we want Ronin the accuser back but I've been told he's been dead in the MCU for years now plus character development just takes up screen time we want to pull this baby back to under two hours hear me out on this one like Ronin pretty much him only a woman this time cuz that's all the development you need genius comes to brilliant by the way you see that South Park episode oh God don't get me started how wrong can you get it and I feel like I should clarify given the mechanics of the MCU Multiverse this isn't supposed to be a female variant of ronin like Sylvia's toi this is just a new villain the villain and the dynamic between Carol Dan and villain on paper probably sounded great like in Concept in my mind I could just see a layout where it's like yeah that sounds awesome in execution doesn't feel like there is any Dynamic the character development's not there we're being told this we're being told that all the while it just feels like baddy doing baddy things and they got to stop bad there ah spoilers I can't do it here I can't talk about it here if I give two enough to do a spoiler Talk video I'll do that you feel like there's a whole movie of setup before this movie that you should have watched that never happened oh God is that just set up for a prequel series on Disney plus I wouldn't doubt it the villain even has ronan's Hammer but after Ronin put the Power Stone in it so the Power Stone made it really powerful it's like this villain has that version of The Hammer with the Power Stone but without a power Stone I was like is there a power Stone out there I'm not aware of granny she does have a magical Relic device that seems to be acting through the hammer but is that is that is that just what happens with the hammer any magical Relic or device that acts through the hammer just acts One Way anything going through the hammer just acts like the purple infinity stone it doesn't come across as a continuity thing comes across as a we don't know how to do anything new or different thing so that covers the characters is that it wait there's more the CGI in the movie there's a lot going on in the action sequences whether it's a lot of CGI or characters swapping places because they're using their powers which is kind of intermittent there were definitely moments where I was like the character used your power and she didn't Swap and why didn't she swap sometimes a little bit of power will make them swap sometimes they need to use more Powers but they don't always Swap and it never explains why not like we live in what's known as the digital age in which all you have to worry about is the internet picking apart your inconsistency so sometimes the action sequences just look like CGI but when you had a still moment nothing distracting you you got to zero in on the CGI oh yeah that was noticeable there are a couple of dumb ass side quests not only does this movie generally feel like a tech demo for gameplay mechanics how you swap places with other characters gameplay mechanic you know how every Sandbox game has that mission where you're like this is Goofy this is some ridiculous but every game gets W this isn't a game but it still gives us one it's weird actually no there's two there are there are two side quests that are absolute ridiculous I'll be vague but I'll talk about them here there's this one planet they go to in which people just sing to talk to people if you just talk to them they can't understand you you have to sing to them I was like this would be fine in an episode of DuckTales or something Launchpad McQuack flies Scrooge McDuck Hy dewy and Louie to this other land where people sing when they talk at the very least speak Walla Wala bing bang Disney Afternoon baby in an MCU movie it just felt like someone trying to recapture that ta kaai Titi energy but Thor loving Thunder ta a white TD energy it was ridiculous another one keeping this one vague it has to do with cats and it's dumb as too and these two comedy bits just feel out of place in this movie makes the movie feel totally inconsistent but in the end the real question is what is this movie about what's the plot no the plot is not the characters when they use their powers swap places with each other that's a mechanic not the plot the plot I don't know either the Badd is doing baddy things and needs to be stopped it's a very simple ass plot it's another High budget Grade B film but it it lacks the camp and cheese element that would make it a cult classic 20 years from now but Aman volani was really good in the movie she has this infectious optimism you feel like it's not the character that's happened the time of her life she is that doesn't always land with me it does with her go forth and prosper kid you were the best one in this film the rest of the movie feels like an exercise and complacency an attestment to the fact that the MCU needs to take a break like take a couple years make people miss you regroup group reassess re-evaluate come back in a couple years and crush it don't give us more of this I say that because this is generally speaking what they give now movies that you're not going to remember in T minus one day yeah how the did we get here it's under 2 hours that's nice yeah there's a mid credit scene go ahead and stay for that so you can see more bad CGI I heard there's a post credit scene but it sounds pretty useless to me okay the Marvels have you seen it what did you think about it what's your least favorite MCU movie or MCU villain whatever they are whatever you think comment below let me know and as always if you like what you've seen here and you want to see more click right here to see more [Music] woof