A decent but not great Marvel film...could learn a thing or two from Wonder Woman

Rating: 7/10 (10 March 2019)

Casting aside all the backlash and controversy surrounding this movie I went to see it anyway before Infinity Wars Endgame comes out. It could've been better. Brie is a beautiful and talented actress but she was rather wooden and uncharismatic as Captain Marvel. I could never relate to or feel any attachment to her because she was so emotionless. Her one liner jokes really fell flat and barely anybody in the audience laughed. They tried too hard to make her as comedic as Robert Downy Jr.'s Tony Stark and it just didn't work. She never has the range of emotions that Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman did. From the joy of seeing a baby in a stroller to her first ice cream cone to her anguish and pain from Steve Trevor's sacrifice I identified and felt these emotions also. I didn't get that from Brie Larson's Captain Marvel.
Samue Jackson in his digital younger self was a hoot as was Goose the Cat. This kitty stole the show in my opinion. Carol Danvers memory flashbacks to introduce her origin were confusing at times. The writers were trying to cram too much background information in the first hour . It wasn't until well into the second half that things got interesting and the action picked up. Another big problem is that they wayOVER-powered her in this movie to be the Avenger's main weapon against Thanos in the upcoming Infinity Wars. No bad guy could even touch her in Captain Marvel. She holds off an entire fleet of Kree warships all by herself and has all of these awesome powers that she just only recently learned to control. Flash forward 25 years when Nick Fury sends her that distress signal and she's probably a thousand times more powerful. Thanos is pretty much toast.
I will say that the the two post credit scenes were good and almost worth the price of admission as was learning the hilarious and true reason why Nick Fury lost his eye and how the Avengers got their name. Do you need to see Captain Marvel before Infinity Wars...no. But if you have two hours and have nothing else to do it might be worth your time.