Below average for Marvel, but enjoyable.

Rating: 8/10 (11 March 2019)

One problem for me is that I had recently seen Battle Angel Alita, which was what Captain Marvel could, and should, have been.
Another was that I had read the Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel comics as a kid; way back in the 70s, and this movie version of Captain Marvel just didn't have the right attitude somehow. The movie version lost 50 IQ points, the hard-as-nails military attitude, and Brie Larsen's little girl voice in some scenes just didn't seem right.
In the Ms. Marvel comic series back in the 70s, she was an Air Force officer and chief of security at Cape Kennedy (Marvel Super-Heroes #13, March 1968). She got her powers in the same radioactive explosion that caused the original Captain Marvel to die of cancer. After resigning from the Air Force, she became a magazine editor who tackled issues like equal pay, equal rights, sexual harassment, etc. with J. Jonah Jameson as her favorite foil. The comic version was smart, fearless, and could make the tough decisions; in one issue of the comic, she let her best friend die in order to save hundreds of strangers. It looked like the movie version would have let them die to save her friend.
The comic version of Captain Marvel did a lot better job with the ending. In the comics, she tackled a young mutant named Rogue, who took her powers and sent her into a coma for 10+ years. That would have been a great ending for this movie. To wake up when Thanos snaps his fingers would have been a lot better than the ending we got.