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Xeremy Hall 🟠🟢🔵’s review published on Letterboxd:
"Stop moving and let the kitties eat you."
I'm sorry but I don't get the hatred. I thought that this was excellent. It may be an unpopular opinion, but behind Guardians 3, Spider-Man: No Way Home, I'd rank this as the third best Phase 4 movie.
In case you've been unsure about whether or not you should watch The Marvels, here are the top 10 reasons why you should check it out...
1. Iman Villani's Kamala Khan is fantastic in EVERY scene. (If you've not watched Miss Marvel, you should go back and do that.)
2. The baby flerkin's are adorable.
3. The Quantum Entanglement fight scene is one of the best and most creative fight sequences that Marvel has choreographed to this point. 4. We got a great look into the psyche of Monica Rambeau and a bit more of the puzzle that took place during the Blip.
5. Kamala Khan's family members are hilarious. I love how they kind of go with the flow to every weird thing that happens around them.
6. Just the right dose of Nick Fury. (I learned in Secret Invasion that there IS such a thing as too much Fury.)
7. Kamal adorably asking the group that she just helped beat up, if she can borrow a space ship from them.
8. Did I mention that the baby flerkins are adorable?
9. The planet that only communicate through song.
10. Kamala fantastically trying to channel Nick Fury as she attempts to recruit her own personal Teen Titans
and...11, THAT INCREDIBLE AFTER CREDIT SCENE that has HUGE implications for the multiverse, and may be another piece to the puzzle of how these universes may eventually entangle.
Is it a perfect movie? No. It is not without it's faults. I felt like the emotional sacrifice at the end was unnecessary and that the writers kind of dropped the ball with what I felt that they were setting up. My suggested ending is that they seal the rift by channeling all of their powers through the bangles and Kamala seals the riff and no one gets stranded on the other side. Just a thought. Of coarse then we don't get the supercool after credit scene so maybe not. Also the end of the film kind of casually shows you that Captain Marvel can withstand being inside a sun, which makes me wonder if I'll ever feel like she's in any kind of ACTUAL danger in a future Marvel films.
These were my only 2 gripes, but it's a massive project that Marvel is undertaking with multiple realities, rules, and sets of physics', so personally, I'm willing to cut them a bit of slack. I thought that this was one the most fun watches of the year, and I have no issues giving it a 5 because that's how much I enjoyed it.
"Ok, new rule: No more touching shit! Especially glowing, mysterious shit!" – Nick Fury