Movie Review: The Marvels

When actress Brie Larson was chosen some years ago to play “Captain Marvel”, the original movie released in 2019, she signed a contract, obligating her to play this Marvel character x number of times. With the release of the latest Marvel movie, “The Marvels”, it is now obvious that Larson did not have the legal right to refuse to play this role if the script was bad. In this case, not only is the screenplay for The Marvels bad, but it could be one of the worst ever developed in the history of the movie industry. There is no story, no continuity, no explanation of what is going on, no logic. This film is nothing more than a haphazard collection of garbage action scenes, and an ongoing series of events and dialogue that makes zero sense.

The new movie The Marvels is so unbelievably bad, that there is danger that this film has caused serious damage to the Marvel franchise. It is impossible to understand, considering the millions of dollars involved with both the Captain Marvel and Marvel franchises, that a screenplay this horrendous, could ever be greenlighted to be made into an actual movie.

This film starts with three women, two of them Marvel super heroes and an ordinary person Kamala Khan, played by Iman Vellani and Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers played by Brie Larson and Monica Rambeau played by Teyonah Parris transporting from space, to a spaceship to an ordinary house, over and over again – totalling around 20 times – with no reason or explanation. There is some sort of a problem with two wrist bracelets that are causing a wormhole, in space. Around the time the 15th transport occurred, I was actually hoping I would be transported to a different movie, knowing that I was once again going to be tortured for another 2 hours.

There are other scenes that involve visiting other planets, one planet where the inhabitance communicate only through singing. There is an evil female antagonist Dar-Benn, played by Zawe Ashton, whose existence and why she is fighting are never defined or explained, degrading into another reason for ridiculous hand to hand combat and explosions.

While sitting through this horrendous mess, I was amazed that so many people, meetings, discussions, and millions of dollars could result in a movie so bad. This is another example where the wrong people in charge believe that costs can be cut and time can be saved, by forgoing a good story in favor of action scenes and relying on the Marvel name to bring people to the theater. This time around, this film will bomb at the box office, hopefully changing this throw anything at a wall laziness and something this bad will never be produced again.

I was amazed at the only 61% low ratings on Rotten Tomatoes for this disaster, with my rating of 10% and a run for your life never see this film in your life final opinion.