Marvel Rising: Guerreiros Secretos

I am most certainly biased, coming from the excellent Ms Marvel and Squirrel Girl comics. But I found an interesting movie about passioned heroes wanting to do their best. Sometimes I don't need more than that. With all the universe ending drama llamas going on, sometimes I just want to see a Squirrel, a Girl and a Squirrel girl do some awesome heroics and inspire a team of new heroes. This movie is not that well animated though so if that will bother you just count my rating a couple of steps lower. I tolerate more in a movie that makes me feel good afterwards.

Apparently Secret Warriors is now a thing and likely to spawn a spew of new movies and a television series. Essentially it's Marvels answer to Teen Titans and I'm not impressed.

To be fair I'm not exactly the demographic, but it's not who you'd expect either.

The main problem is that it's so kiddish, and as Marvel/Superheroes have evolved so far and gone beyond Saturday morning cartoons I feel this is a step backwards. It doesn't need to be R rated, but a happy medium would have made considerably more sense.

Here we see the most modern version of Ms.Marvel teaming with Squirrel Girl to take on the bad guys and form the titular team. The animation is lazy, the plot is generic and it's all so damn childish.

To its credit it is bringing some lesser to known characters into the spotlight and pushing Captain Marvel further in as she'll be an integral part of the MCU. Also the voice talent though not great is at least consistent as we have several people playing characters they've played before such as Agent of Shields own Chloe Bennet playing Quake again.

I see what they're doing here, I just don't think they've done it very well. It's full of moral messages and that's great, it has it's heart in the right place. But as a franchise? I'm unimpressed.

The Good:

Strong morale code and messages

Some of the logic behind this makes sense

The Bad:

Some horrid animation

That soundtrack, really?

Too much silliness

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Squirrel Girl is approximately 50% adorable and 50% annoying

I'm showing my age here, but I'm also coming from a long history of loving Marvel toons. Synthetic music with digital instruments gives me headaches. It's so much commercialized content that 'Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors' becomes a perverbial shaking of the keys in front of a baby's face. It's flashy bright colors set to excess noise; if this were Japan you'd expect to read about the hundreds of cases of children going into seizures (Much like California's theater warning for 'The Incredibles 2'). It was as uncomfortable to watch as a ShamWow commercial, "HEY I'M YELLING REALLY LOUDLY SO YOU'LL LOOK UP AT THE TV!!!"

Secondly, just at a glimpse I couldn't help but notice the body transformation of Squirrel Girl. What was the point of giving her birthing hips? The Squirrel Girl I remember had a tiny frame which gave her action scenes against bigger villains a lop-sided battle that you couldn't help but cheer for her to win. People tend to root for the underdog, not the guy big enough to lift grown men off their feet. It came across like she was the bully in at least one scenario.

There wasn't much of a story here. It's basically hero-worship of older Marvel characters and living up to be just like them. It takes away from the individuality of the new characters origin stories. I saw this as one long movie edited from the shorts that wemade available. Maybe the idea was to get all of this information in small doses? I don't know. My experience was tiring. I didn't finish watching because there wasn't much there for me to care about. No mystery, no central element, and all commercial.

Pro-:kamala khan stuff is solid cons-:1) how are inhumans different than xmen 2)voice acting is mixed but mostly bad 2.1)kamala khan's mom sounds likes 1960's not early 2000's in accent 2.2) squirrel girls voice acting is annoying 3)animation is neither distinct or memorable 4)story is a mess and keeps trowing terms 5)teenager's dialog is terrible and written by someone in there 40's

The movie is fun, charming and silly but it's weakn is just introducing a handful of characters in an 80 minute movie. It would've been a lot better as a TV show than a full length movie. But nonetheless, I enjoyed a lot.