{"id":68611,"date":"2023-11-15T00:55:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T00:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rapidcelnews.com\/?p=68611"},"modified":"2023-11-15T00:55:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T00:55:59","slug":"the-marvels-review-the-mcus-triple-threat-is-boring-lazy-and-overstuffed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rapidcelnews.com\/tv-movies\/the-marvels-review-the-mcus-triple-threat-is-boring-lazy-and-overstuffed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marvels Review – The MCU\u2019s triple threat is boring, lazy, and overstuffed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Marvels teased in final trailer<\/h3>\n

The Marvels is sure to delight die-hard fans of the interconnected superhero multiverse, but there\u2019s not much to recommend for casual viewers.<\/p>\n

Marvel Studios’ latest big screen offering picks up decades after 2019\u2019s 90s-set blockbuster Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson as the titular hero, while juggling follow-ups to two Disney+ shows of varied success.<\/p>\n

Still figuring out her place in the universe, Captain Marvel, aka Carol Danvers, unwittingly joins forces with her grown-up \u2018niece\u2019 Monica Rambeau (played by Teyonah Parris) and young Jersey City hero Kamala Khan\/Ms Marvel (Iman Vellani).<\/p>\n

When the trio\u2019s powers become untangled, they find themselves at the centre of the Kree-Skull war that has been reignited by a powerful new revolutionary, Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton).<\/p>\n

If it all sounds rather over-complicated and uninspired, that\u2019s because it is.<\/p>\n

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Director Nia DaCosta takes on the unenviable job of delivering three sequels in one, cramming in links to the original Captain Marvel as well as WandaVision and Ms Marvel.<\/p>\n

To do so, Carol, Kamala and Monica have their respective character arcs strung across a paint-by-numbers sci-fi framework that prioritises cameos, gags and set pieces over compelling storytelling.<\/p>\n

While the three leads are individually charming, their natural chemistry as a trio is lost in the noise of exposition dumps and rapid-fire montages of what came before, hurriedly getting the uninitiated up to speed.<\/p>\n

On paper, The Marvels could have been a harmonious coalition of three popular new characters, but its generic filter sandpapers away any verve or stylistic energy the three previous projects had.<\/p>\n

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There are frequent gestures at something more interesting at play or the occasional spark of creativity, but they\u2019re all too quickly shunted to make way for more continuity-building exposition, clunky action, and tedious space nonsense.<\/p>\n

A brief visit to a planet whose population communicates solely through musical numbers is an ingenious sci-fi concept, and there\u2019s even an early action sequence that thrillingly demonstrates the power entanglement conceit with scrappy tactility.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, DiCosta\u2019s directorial voice in these moments is never given the chance to expand, which has sadly become par for the course for the over-saturated pop culture phenomenon.<\/p>\n