With its premiere scheduled for November 9, it is positioned as one of the most anticipated productions of the year. (Credits: Marvel Studios)
It took decades to see it on the big screen, but it seems more and more normalized: female heroines fighting alongside their colleagues, without their gender being a reason to sexualize them or leave them aside. A couple of years before Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) got her own solo film, Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) arrived and established herself as the first titular heroine of her Cinematic Universe, on par with any other Avenger in power. and motivation.
With a promise at the end and an uncertain future, The Marvels (2023) takes up the original plot of the 2019 film and takes charge of continuing it. But it also has the task of incorporating two new heroines born on the small screen, connecting their stories organically and giving them a purpose to continue fighting in a world where the Avengers are no longer there to protect it. In command is Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), who functions as a connection point for this entire universe, although he is already closer to retiring than to his glory days.
Captain Marvel’s new adventure adds two more heroines, Kamala Khan and Monica Rambeau. The film will premiere on November 9. (Marvel Studios)
The great merit of The Marvels is to balance all these elements in a coherent, entertaining and very well-paced story. In just one hour and 45 minutes, the plot introduces the three main protagonists and their origin stories, without forcing the viewer into tedious flashback scenes or expository explanations. On the contrary, it finds the most appropriate audiovisual and script resources for each character to put us in context, making it not mandatory to have seen anything before to perfectly understand what is happening and what the connection is between these heroines.
Brie Larson shines again in the role of Carol Danvers, this time a much more mature, experienced heroine with her own regrets. While Teyonah Parris reprises the role that made her famous in WandaVision (2021) as Monica Rambeau, the SABER agent who goes through the anomaly of the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) to save Westview, and acquires light powers. She is the brain of the operation, the most trained soldier to follow Nick Fury’s orders and bring experience and maturity to the group.
The Marvels: Brie Larson with Iman Vellani (Marvel via Empire)
But the one who steals absolutely all the attention is Kamala Kan (Iman Vellani), the young Captain Marvel fan who saved Jersey City in her own series Miss Marvel (2022), after acquiring powers from a legendary bracelet that was inherited from her. . Kamala is the heart of the film and the engine that propels the plot forward, renewing a tired formula that gains an infectious enthusiasm thanks to it. Kamala’s family (especially her mother, but also her father and her older brother) are also part of this equation, giving the film an ATP tone that invites you to watch it as a family.
There are two particularly funny scenes in the film, which can disconnect the viewer from what they are seeing or, on the contrary, make them completely immersed in the proposal. They are two musical sequences that embrace total absurdity, and work incredibly well because they share a code of complicity with the viewer, one of those that Disney knows how to take advantage of so well in its films. Despite this challenge, the director (Nya DaCosta) perfectly understands how to navigate these differences in tone so as not to fall into the same mistakes that the studio made with narrative experiments like Eternals (2021).
The Marvels (Marvel Studios)
Thus, it makes the fortuitous union of these three characters and everything that surrounds them absolutely organic and believable, exploring their personal motivations and particular powers along the way. Once again, Marvel takes up the premise that what really makes a hero (in this case, heroines) are his extraordinary abilities as a human being: his empathy, his resilience and his capacity for resolution; not his superpowers. And of course, his ability to work as a team. In this sense, The Marvels are everything the Avengers struggled to be.
A team that works for a common goal and for the good of others, respecting the individualities of each one, but leaving aside personal desires to focus on the task and resolve. Although internal confrontations exist and are what give a certain dramatic tension to the script (which cannot fall on a generic villain for that), they are recognized as such and at no time do they put themselves ahead of the group objectives. This group idea will also be what drives the plot forward in the final scene. And in the post-credits scene, which is a treat for the fans.
Wonderful playThe Marvels presents the franchise’s first team of heroines in an adventure with a lot of heart and humor, where there are no big risks, but there is a lot of action. Despite its promises for the future, it closes the story well and you don’t need prior knowledge to enjoy it.
2023-11-13 19:30:25
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