Captain Mehvel

Rating: 3/10 (8 March 2019)

*Spoilers*
This movie suffers from a media overhyped train built up on feminism and Marvel being a strong woman. From a marketing stand point, the whole feminist agenda is well over blown. Yes, there are feminist tones in there, the quite obvious is the soundtrack with Garbage, No Doubt, Spice Girls and you get the gist of it. The other main one is her being told she can't do it .by men of course, in many memories of her trying to do something and falling and then she gets up and does whatever she was told she couldn't do, there's enough feminist ideals but I don't think there's enough to over shadow the movie. There's actually a good story in this movie but is over shadowed by Brie Larson and her bad character development.
Brie Larson lost her ability to act in this movie, she's very rigid, often looks cold and disinterested in a lot of scenes that she's in. She moves very stiff in her walking, running (in one scene her legs are flailing about and it was almost funny but in the moment I just couldn't laugh). Her "blue steel" constant look towards most every situation is very distracting because I kept looking at her face to see how she would react to things thrown at her. More times than not, she just looked "blue steel" at everything. Scenes in which Larson let go of that look were few but the most enjoyable moments are where she actually plays off Jackson a few times.
I would say that the main thing this film suffers from is the audiences ability to connect with Marvel. In good story telling, the main character usually has something holding them back at pivotal moments in their life and yes this character has that. Unfortunately, instead of giving you moments of weakness and growing and developing a rapport to feel some sort of empathy to that character the audience is never given that chance because the character isn't developed in the movie that way. Marvel overcomes all obstacles in her life by standing up, literally, and I wish I was making it up but instead of showing the audience her flaws and weaknesses and then over coming that through ranges of emotions of any kind and the ability to learn and grow, Marvel just stands up with shoulders back, blue steel look on her face and overcomes whatever is thrown her way. With Marvel and the media pushing this as a strong woman character, she really isn't, she's a robot and this is a sad portrayal of a strong woman, Marvel studios really missed a chance to show a strong female overcoming adversities and weaknesses through character development, instead they opted to tell you that to be a strong woman all you need to do is stand up, give a blue steel look and you'll over come your adversity and it's very disappointing in that aspect.
The overall movie isn't bad in itself, the supporting cast is enjoyable and to bad there aren't more goose scenes because the best part in the movie is when goose gets to show off his stuff.