‘The Marvels’ Review: Team Players
metroweekly.comThe Marvels, Nia DaCosta’s action-packed addition to a decent if not spectacular year for the films of the MCU.The ending we’re talking about is not only the film’s climactic showdown and good-humored epilogue but, since this is a Marvel movie, also the buzzworthy mid-credits sequence.
All three components offer satisfactory closure to the story at hand, while heralding intriguing future adventures for the film’s titular trio of superheroes.The credits scene, in particular, foreshadows the first truly exciting MCU plot development since Marvel cracked open its now 33-film fictional universe into a kaleidoscopic multiverse of rarified worlds and reimagined characters.
The well-played reveal ends the film on an adrenaline high that goes far towards compensating for its choppy first act, spent introducing and re-introducing its vast, disparate cast of characters.Ostensibly, the film — scripted by DaCosta, Melissa McDonnell (WandaVision), and Elissa Karasik (Loki) — serves as a sequel to the 2019 hit Captain Marvel, which starred Brie Larson as amnesiac heroine Carol Danvers, a.k.a.
Kree warrior Vers.Carol/Vers would have to blast baddies from one side of the galaxy to the other in order to discover her true identity, as a former Air Force pilot who’d gained superhuman strength and energy-projecting powers from a freak explosion that somehow didn’t kill her.Later kidnapped, trained, and basically brainwashed by the Kree on planet Hala, Carol broke free of her captors in an earthbound battle, then set off to go show Hala a thing or two.
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