A Good Movie

Rating: 7/10 (9 April 2020)

Captain Marvel is a good movie. It is not Wonder Woman or Into The Spider-Verse, but it is not Batman and Robin or Howard The Duck either. Most people know the story of Carol Danvers ( Captain Marvel), and ( or) they have read posters who have dissected the story, so there is no need to repeat the plot. I will just comment. There are three positive things that stand out things. 1: "Goose" The Cat. The cat stole every scene he was in. 2: The process that made Nick and Phil look decades younger. 3: The twist showing Scrulls as victims and the Kree as bad guys. In the Fantastic Four comic, they were the bad guys. In fact, one of them ( Super Scrull) is in the top 10 of FF villains. My biggest complaint is there was nothing tragic involved, to make the story great, Carol was complaining how she lost 6 years of her life, but that is nothing compared to Diana Prince (Wonder Woman) who lost the man she loves and her mom, Miles Morales ( Into The Spider-Verse) his Uncle, or even The Avengers losing Tony Stark ( Iron Man) and Natasha Romanoff ( Black Widow) in Avengers: Endgame. In the comics, quite often, the best super-hero stories involve death. In Amazing Spider-Man you have the deaths of Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy, and the individual stories Kraven's Last Hunt and The Kid Who Collected Spider-Man, and the Death of Jean DeWolff are tragic stories, that are always listed along with the deaths of Uncle Ben and Gwen in the Top 10 Spider-Man issued ever. That lack of anything tragic is the difference between good and great. I would ordinarily give it 6/10 stars ( between fair and good) but Goose gives it an extra star, to elevate Captain Marvel into a good movie.