The Marvels
Joshua Bradley

Review by Joshua Bradley Patron

The Marvels 2023

★★

Watched 03 Dec 2023

Was The Marvels the product of a bad script or a bad edit? We'll likely never know, as the studio is backing away quickly from this movie. On watching the movie, it seems maybe both is the answer— they had a cool concept in power switching that became impossible to stick to in order to allow things to happen and stay coherent. Things happened. Coherent? Not so much.

Despite all of the hushed tones, I actually liked the story. It was the plot that sucked. The tone was off, the balance of whose story and why they all ended up together was edited together across the entire movie. Kamala Khan and fam were the best part of the movie along with a few entertaining fight sequences.

Marvel continues to struggle with believing that what they are doing is so important that it must all hold together. These are comic books people and the comics aren't even all together. Maybe we need Thanos to snap and kill off 1/2 of all of Feige's ideas.

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