kitttyyyyy! saw it for the cat; cat did not disappoint

Rating: 9/10 (20 March 2019)

Saw this with a fellow cat lover who hasn't seen any other Marvel movies, and we both enjoyed it. (Now she wants to catch up with all of them and see them all so she can appreciate Goose's next appearance! Which will undoubtedly be when Thanos is defeated, right Marvel? Right?) When I reviewed Black Panther I asked for more cat and Marvel delivered, so you're welcome everybody, lol.
There were several times when, in this nearly-deserted weekday matinee theater, we leaned over to each other and whispered "Kitttyyyy!" And one time-- this is the only spoiler in here but I just have to relate it because it's funny and nostalgic-- I leaned over did my best impression of "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle." And I had been joking but then on the screen, haha, they actually did it! She didn't say it but they cut away to her riding and she clearly has on a jacket that's not her uniform jacket. lol. I thought the Terminator homage was delightful.
Capt. Marvel isn't a character I was ever a fan of, but I liked the character in this movie. The Carol / Vers thing had a Robocop or Ghost in the Shell kind of thing going on, which is a theme I like. The extensive flashbacks as the character overcame her amnesia could have been confusing or repetitious but they handled it just right so viewers could understand it without being hit over the head with it. I liked her character development. I liked that she wasn't actually good at fist fighting because I get tired of "waif fu" (itty bitty girls fighting like the Hulk without even using superpowers-- I'm a woman martial artist and I know better.) I don't know about how this version of Capt. Marvel compares to the comics.
I liked the 80s / 90s references. The analog world, pagers, that whole era from my youth. A lot of movies featuring that kind of nostalgia have come out recently, not just Ready Player One, but for example Red Sparrow even though it was awkwardly updated to try to pretend it was about today. I appreciated the nostalgia trip in Capt. Marvel. That might get old eventually but it hasn't yet.
I'm not going to bother telling you about the fx or about Fury because everybody else has already said everything, there are over 5k reviews at this point so I doubt anyone is even going to read this except my personal friends, so I just talked about my personal reactions to the movie. My bottom line: if you like cats, see it, because cat. If you plan to see whatever movie Marvel brings out where Thanos is going to be fought again, see Capt. Marvel because it's clear this character is being set up to fight Thanos. See it if you like analog era nostalgia.