Worst movie of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: 1/10 (12 May 2019)

No film in the MCU has disappointed me like this one. It certainly got a lot of hype to build it up and like everyone else, I was looking forward to the introduction of Carol Danvers to the MCU. (Note: Spoilers toward the end.) Renaming the cat was a cute touch although it caters to the wrong decade. To that end, it seemed to me that while they tried to achieve a retro feel, the set designers and prop men were probably millenials who didn't know the difference between the 70s, 80s, and 90s (I know, it was all "old" to them). They did achieve a retro feel albeit a confused one.
It was a little over the top with the "I am woman" theme but that really didn't bother me as much as the rewrites of Marvel canon. Carol in the comics was a strong woman and a good team player -- in the movie, she's a smug self-centered narcissist and doesn't play well with others.
"Black Panther" was a good modernization of T'challa (although I could have done without the "he's not a villain, he's just misguided" ending). "Captain Marvel" is not. I'll give this movie a star for Samuel L. Jackson and his having to put up with Brie Larson's ego, another star for the visual effects, a third for effectively taking 20 years off SLJ (taking him back to "Pulp Fiction"), and a fourth for slipping in glimpses of all of Carol's various uniforms but I'm taking one away for the terrible writing and another for the open disdain they seemed to show for the comics history behind Ms. Marvel.
I regret having pumped up their numbers by having seen the movie twice but I had both friends and family wanting to see the movie with me on different days.
If Captain Marvel is going to be the new anchor for MCU Phase 4, the MCU ended with Phase 3 as far as I'm concerned.

**** SPOILER ALERT ******
Again, I don't really care that they made Mar-Vell a woman or how they gave Carol her powers but the Skrulls have been villains in the Marvel universe for 60 years. In some ways, I'm surprised they didn't still make Carol and Mar-Vell lovers as they could have catered to another one of their SJW demographics.
Captain Marvel dropping in on a Blockbuster Video store was a bit of a hoot as was the cop directing her to a Radio Shack when she asked for communications equipment (and yes, it was predictable but still funny).