Ignored the MCU we know

Rating: 4/10 (10 March 2019)

I am a mixed race female woman that loves strong women if you already can't tell from my username, a nod to Willowy from Buffy the Vampire slayer.
The movie isn't great and it makes characters and events in the MCU pointless or less important, BUT the supporting cast shines.
Beautiful opening credits to honor Stan Le, BUT, Like in TLJ, a story group wrote this movie. And just like for the Star Wars movies, it didn't work. I feel like whoever was in that group has never see a single MCU movie or read the comics.
Yeah! Samuel L Jackson is as always stealing the show, but his character was demoted from the smart man and Director of Shield "with an eye on you" to a below average smart person in some ways. I also find it difficult that in a span of 13 years he raised to the ranks of Director we first met in Iron Man.
1. Why didn't Nick call CM when NY was about to be nucked? Any sane person knowing a superpowered being able to beat everyone would do so the moment that Cube was stolen by Loki in the beginning of Avengers.
2. Was Nick so away from the scattered Avengers that he didn't know the world was under attack so he would call CM the moment Ebony Maw's ship appeared in New York in the beginning of Infinity War? Don't Avengers movies have CNN?
3. Disney Marvel uses CM to give the lamest excuse to justify something since Disney Lucas Film (see a pattern?) tried to explain to us why Solo is called... well... Solo. Nick Fury lost his eye to a cat. Are you kidding me?! WHY?! The comics shows that Nick lost his eye in a military mission.
The movie proceeds to make many movies in the MCU pointless/less important as well as Agents of Shield, a show that I love exactly for the way the females are depicted in it. Now that CM is introduced, there was no reason for The Avengers movie to exist. If Nick had called CM the moment the cube was stolen that world destruction event could have been minimized. She could have beaten Loki's to oblivion and fought the invading chitauri while The Avengers ate their shuwarmas.
The same way, by the end of the movie she leaves with the Skrulls, which were turned good dudes for the solo propose of injecting the movie with the refugee agenda. This is completely ABSURD and kills any sort of future depiction regarding Secret Invasion for now. Well they can always retcon it as this movie has now established. But I digress. The point is she is somewhere in the Universe. So:
1. Where was she when EGO seeds got alive in planets around the Universe? You would think she would investigate something like this.
2. In addition to GOTG V2, Thor is also a victim of this movie ignoring any sense of continuity. Where was CM when Malekith was trying to destroy the universe in Thor The Dark World? Again, this could merit her investigating these events. However, this case is even worse because the disturbances caused by the alignment could be felt around the universe, which I guess includes the Skrulls home, supposing she is still there.
3. In Infinity War, a movie that should not have happened as we now have this superpowered being with enough strength to deal with Thanos alone that should have been called earlier, GOTG were informed by Thor that Thanos had already destroyed Xandar to get the Infinity Stone there. Where was she again? These are universe events that she should at least go investigating due to their repercussion. Thanos was roaming around with Infinity Stones, people died in Xandar and she didn't know anything?
I guess she became a housewife and stayed at home in the Skrulls new planet instead of doing superheroic things around the galaxy.
Another unexplained event that shows continuity was blow away for the sake of this movie involves the tesseract. From The First Avenger, the tesseract was recovered by Howard. It ended up in SHIELD possession as he was involved in the agency creation together with Peggy Carter. Iron Man 2 also established Howard's involvement with SHIELD when Nick visited Tony to give him Howard's chest. How the tesseract ended up with the Skrulls? Are we to believe it was stolen by the disguised Mar-Vell and the Skrulls stole it from her?? Oh please! Personally, I find this bad story telling.
Where is Goose the cat after all this time? We are in 2019. What happened after he coughed the cube to Nick?
Marvel has been casting great kids for their movies. Both Ant-Man and CM. It was good to see Coulson. Lachana was solid for what she was given and I think she would have been great if Marvel had decided to use the original character, a black woman named Monica Rambeau, instead of using well... her.
For all that Brie Larson speaks on diversity, I am surprised she didn't tell no to Marvel and advised them to cast a black woman. By the way, despite the actress saying she and Brie Larson are best friends in real life, I didn't feel in the movie, even after CM recovered her memory. Think of the first time we see Cap and Falcon in the beginning of Winter Soldier. THAT is chemistry.
Like Thor Ragnarok wasted a perfectly cast Cate Blanchett as Hela, this movie wastes Jude Law as Yon Rogg in my book.
In the technical sides, the score along the film was misplaced and so loud it was difficult to hear what people were saying. The CGI resembled what was done in MoS/BvS/WW than a Marvel movie (Ragnarok and Black Panther also had bad CGI along the way). However, they keep improving the technics to get people young. It was well done for Nick and Coulson.
In the end, not even the pos-credit scene makes sense. Fury was dusted in a street somewhere in the USA. How did The Avengers get that pager? It seemed to me the movie was trying to mimick Thor's "Who are you people" in the IW trailer, but really? Pretty convenient they find the exact pager that would lead CM to them.
The movie is unnecessary right now. I had the impression the script was rished and the movie frafted in a rush too.
Brie Larson isn't fit to be CM. Her voice is that of a child and her acting... well. She has to play a piece of solid wood the first half of the movie as she was brainwashed by the Krees, but what about when she remembers who she is. She reminds of one Natalie Portman portraying Jane Foster. We know what happened with that. I kind had the impression she was bored and the movie was beneath the Oscared feet.
Monica Rambeau is now a young woman. For all that I care, Marvel should ditch this CM and use MR instead, with Lachana (looks like her mother right?).
In my book, if Marvel really wanted to introduce this character, she could have been a by-product of whatever the Avengers are going to do in Endgame as they butchered her origin from the Comics anyway.
To help the fight against Thanos in A4, they should have thought of using Scarlet Witch, who is also powered by a Infinity Stone, and was dusted because reasons. When she held Thanos I was excited she would have a big role in A4. She showed a comanding presence during the fight in Wakanda that I associate with Captain America. She could lead the Avengers easily.
The other option is finally bringing in Adam Warlock bc he is the one associated with anything Thanos in comics (Silver Surfer too if I'm not wrong). Warlock was hinted in the end of GOTG V2. His arrival on Earth could have been the result of some gold people being dusted, he left his home planet to investigate, found Tony lost in space and they came to Earth. This could also be applied to introduce CM and leave the explanation for her solo movie opening phase 4.
In the end, it felt hollow. I am still waiting for the first female in the MCU. Her name is Natasha.