An entertaining enough film but not Marvels best

Rating: 7/10 (12 March 2019)

Captain Marvel sits well enough into Marvel's Canon. It is action packed, funny and charming. However it does feel like it's been awkwardly crammed into the Avengers backstory as an afterthought. Much has also been made of the first leading female Marvel character based film (although you could argue Ant Man and the Wasp did that last year) but comparisons to DC's Wonder Woman (an excellent film btw in case you haven't seen it) seem a little muted as that film beat Captain Marvel to the screen by nearly two years.
However I digress. Brie Larson is hugely engaging as the title character and while much has been said of the de-aging of Nick Fury, I personally think it looks a bit odd and think the de-aging of agent Coulson is much less jarring. The story might be fairly ordinary by Marvel standards and the cgi scenes vary from very convincing to poor (such as some of the scenes with Goose, the cat) but there is much to enjoy here even though I don't think it quite has the emotional gravitas of The Winter Soldier, Infinity War or Black Panther. Having said that the film has also been given the difficult task of introducing a game changing character late on in the Marvel cycle that will no doubt be key to the upcoming Avengers: Endgame. In this respect it is job done.