Just got out.
This movie had the shortest run time of the MCU, yet it felt longer than Flower Moon while watching it.
It felt like the film was ripped apart and stitched back together in post. It's disjointed, poorly paced, strangely edited and very dull.
My audience was about half full and were mostly lifeless. The only things that got strong reactions were Kamala's parents (who are great) , the cats and 1 of the teases for the future. The 2 teases I'm thinking of at the end, the first went over to a blank lifeless reaction. The second elicited some ooohs and ahhhs and some convos.
The 3 leads have very little chemistry. For me, I wouldn't say I hate any of them, but have complete apathy.
I was never a fan of the iron man Jr, fan boying of Holland. But at least spidey felt more well rounded and iron man is a beloved character by the audience, so at least it's understandable for him to fan Boy over the character that carried the MCU.
Here, if this is a lot of audiences intro to Ms. Marvel her only characteristic seems to be loving Captain Marvel, who is probably the dullest character in the MCU. I don't think that is Brie's fault. I think she is a wonderful actress. But the way Marvel has handled this character leaves me scratching my head. The audience has been given very little reason to like or connect with this character. We always HEAR about things she's doing, but we never really get to see these adventures she is on. Giving her amnesia was such a miscalculated introduction. I really feel like they have done an extremely poor job with Captain Marvel.
The villain is maybe the worst in all pf the MCU. Ronan was already such a lifeless bore, and this is just a worse version.
The film just plods along and then ends. My audience was more into Ant Man 3 than this.
It's not offensively bad, or even memorable in any way. It is just there, existing for little reason.
4/10