Some critics think ‘The Marvels’ has taken the MCU to “a new low”

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Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), The Marvels, has split the critics with a range of mixed reviews.READ MORE: ‘The Marvels’ review: a quirky cosmic caper that lacks punchThe film, which is directed by Nia DaCosta, is the sequel to 2019’s Captain Marvel and a continuation of the television miniseries Ms.

Marvel. The 33rd film in the MCU, it stars Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau/Photon and Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan/Ms.

Marvel.In a three-star review, NME has said that “while DaCosta’s Candyman reboot was thrilling, this never musters the same level of engagement, despite a script that is chock full of good lines and a cast of willing participants.

More meh than marvel, you might say.”Other reviews have been less generous. In a one-star review, The Telegraph wrote that the film has taken the superhero franchise “to a new low”, adding that “the shortest of the films is also the most interminable, a knot of nightmares that groans with the series’ now-trademark VFX sloppiness.”Similarly, a review from Associated Press states that, “as is often the case with Marvel’s girl power attempts, it feels a little pandering in all the wrong places and doesn’t really engage with any specific or unique female point of view.”A scathing review in the New York Post describes The Marvels as “the worst MCU movie yet”, adding: “If you thought Eternals and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania were low points for the limping Marvel Cinematic Universe, strap in for the ride to abject misery that is The Marvels.”In a one-and-a-half star review, The Washington Post said, “There’s a lot of fighting and the fate of the world is said to hang in the balance, but when you look at the screen, all you see is a.