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Hailey's On It! Sounds good on paper: a girl adverse to trying new things must now do so to save the future. It could've been a great encouragement for children to get out there and experiment, get out of their comfort zones, experience all that life has to offer.
Instead, it's a nothingburger of a show. Hailey barely has any obstacles on completing her list items. Despite not wanting to do anything on her list, she's somehow GOOD at most of them right off the bat. The only thing that provides any challenge is when other people get involved, or the EXTREMELY sporadic appearance of Chaos Bots. You'd think if they wanted to keep Hailey from succeeding they'd have more of a presence, but no.
Speaking of other people, her best friend Scott is extremely annoying. He's supposed to be so stupid it's funny, but instead he's so stupid he's annoying. He brings nothing to the table, except to validate every insult Beta slings his way. How Hailey supposedly has a crush on him is the true mystery.
The idea is good and it had a lot of potential, but the execution makes it a truly nothing of a show. No challenge, no real pressing sense of stakes, and nothing remotely entertaining enough to keep viewers coming back for more.
Instead, it's a nothingburger of a show. Hailey barely has any obstacles on completing her list items. Despite not wanting to do anything on her list, she's somehow GOOD at most of them right off the bat. The only thing that provides any challenge is when other people get involved, or the EXTREMELY sporadic appearance of Chaos Bots. You'd think if they wanted to keep Hailey from succeeding they'd have more of a presence, but no.
Speaking of other people, her best friend Scott is extremely annoying. He's supposed to be so stupid it's funny, but instead he's so stupid he's annoying. He brings nothing to the table, except to validate every insult Beta slings his way. How Hailey supposedly has a crush on him is the true mystery.
The idea is good and it had a lot of potential, but the execution makes it a truly nothing of a show. No challenge, no real pressing sense of stakes, and nothing remotely entertaining enough to keep viewers coming back for more.
We decided to watch this film when my pops heard his friends raving about it. We can't figure out what movie THEY saw, because it couldn't POSSIBLY have been this.
This was a very by-the-numbers action flick, with characters making EXTREMELY dumb choices to keep the story going and pad out the run time. While the action scenes themselves were decent, the story bits around it were just a stiff and wooden slog. Characters come and go with very little development, ensuring we feel nothing when they're put in peril.
One of the film's glaring problems was the fact they made their protagonist TOO good. The bad guys CLEARLY stood no chance against her and her "special set of skills" (a nod to a film that had a similar premise and did it better). It honestly felt like they combined the plot from two movies together as she dispatched the first "big bad" rather quickly, only to get a second one that kicked the whole mess off in the first place.
The Zoe character was also the most unlikable child character I've seen in a long time. She didn't act like a girl who had been thrown into some wildly traumatic situations--she came off like a spoiled and belligerent little brat. Anything that went wrong usually was because of her, and not in the just "she didn't know better" kind of way. And just when I think they're gonna give her a moment of redemption for the audience, they drop the ball and turn it into yet ANOTHER contrivance to keep the story going JUUUUUUUUST a bit longer.
If you're looking for a new action flick to pass the time, don't bother with this one. It's nothing we haven't seen done better a thousand times before, and offers nothing of note to justify its existence.
This was a very by-the-numbers action flick, with characters making EXTREMELY dumb choices to keep the story going and pad out the run time. While the action scenes themselves were decent, the story bits around it were just a stiff and wooden slog. Characters come and go with very little development, ensuring we feel nothing when they're put in peril.
One of the film's glaring problems was the fact they made their protagonist TOO good. The bad guys CLEARLY stood no chance against her and her "special set of skills" (a nod to a film that had a similar premise and did it better). It honestly felt like they combined the plot from two movies together as she dispatched the first "big bad" rather quickly, only to get a second one that kicked the whole mess off in the first place.
The Zoe character was also the most unlikable child character I've seen in a long time. She didn't act like a girl who had been thrown into some wildly traumatic situations--she came off like a spoiled and belligerent little brat. Anything that went wrong usually was because of her, and not in the just "she didn't know better" kind of way. And just when I think they're gonna give her a moment of redemption for the audience, they drop the ball and turn it into yet ANOTHER contrivance to keep the story going JUUUUUUUUST a bit longer.
If you're looking for a new action flick to pass the time, don't bother with this one. It's nothing we haven't seen done better a thousand times before, and offers nothing of note to justify its existence.
I'm going to say because of all the "true Captain Marvel" claptrap I've seen on social media, I found it amusing the trailer for SHAZAM! opened up CAPTAIN MARVEL at my theater.
I've seen a lot of reviews say that this movie is completely devoid of humor. While it's true that there's less jokes per capita than other Marvel offerings, there were one-liners and humorous interactions a-plenty. It was played like a buddy cop movie akin to the LETHAL WEAPON franchise. Plenty of laughter in my rather-full showing.
I've heard people denounce the movie because of gender politics. Yes, it's a movie that stars a woman. Annnnnd that's pretty much as far as it goes for gender. If you want to analyze its political implications, I think the current migrant/refugee crisis we've got going on in this country would be a better descriptor (crisis as in how this country has chosen to handle it, being poorly).
I've also heard that the acting is either wooden, uneven or completely absent. I think given the situations, the theme and the narrative, the acting was just fine on all parts.
CAPTAIN MARVEL is a good movie. I can't say that it left me with the same feelings my first viewing of WONDER WOMAN did, but I can say I enjoyed the hell out of it. Larson and Jackson made quite the pair and played off each other well. They borrowed heavily from the comics' lore from every era and blended it well. The special effects were amazing. I mean, Marvel's de-aging technology is nothing short of witchcraft (not that Gregg and Jackson have visibly aged all that much to begin with, but still...daymn). As reported elsewhere, Goose totally stole the show. He had a couple of the best scenes. Mendelsohn was good, but not really a scene-stealer. And some of the fight scenes were spectacularly choreographed. Also, the opening Stan Lee tribute...didn't quite bring the tears of SPIDER-VERSE's, but it was a heart-stabber.
Bottom line: if you like Marvel movies, you'll like this. It doesn't really reinvent the wheel or bring anything of epic scale to the table (it doesn't go anywhere near INFINITY WAR), but it does tell a good story with some good action and fun interactions to go along with it. I didn't find it slow or boring in the least.
However, if you're of the camp who believes the misinformation that this movie is pushing some kind of SJW agenda or have an issue with who does or doesn't have the Captain Marvel name, this movie is not going to be for you. You're already going in wrong-headed and the movie will fail for you before it even begins. All I can do is remind you all that the movies do not follow the comics, and haven't for the last 20 years. They are their own thing.
I've seen a lot of reviews say that this movie is completely devoid of humor. While it's true that there's less jokes per capita than other Marvel offerings, there were one-liners and humorous interactions a-plenty. It was played like a buddy cop movie akin to the LETHAL WEAPON franchise. Plenty of laughter in my rather-full showing.
I've heard people denounce the movie because of gender politics. Yes, it's a movie that stars a woman. Annnnnd that's pretty much as far as it goes for gender. If you want to analyze its political implications, I think the current migrant/refugee crisis we've got going on in this country would be a better descriptor (crisis as in how this country has chosen to handle it, being poorly).
I've also heard that the acting is either wooden, uneven or completely absent. I think given the situations, the theme and the narrative, the acting was just fine on all parts.
CAPTAIN MARVEL is a good movie. I can't say that it left me with the same feelings my first viewing of WONDER WOMAN did, but I can say I enjoyed the hell out of it. Larson and Jackson made quite the pair and played off each other well. They borrowed heavily from the comics' lore from every era and blended it well. The special effects were amazing. I mean, Marvel's de-aging technology is nothing short of witchcraft (not that Gregg and Jackson have visibly aged all that much to begin with, but still...daymn). As reported elsewhere, Goose totally stole the show. He had a couple of the best scenes. Mendelsohn was good, but not really a scene-stealer. And some of the fight scenes were spectacularly choreographed. Also, the opening Stan Lee tribute...didn't quite bring the tears of SPIDER-VERSE's, but it was a heart-stabber.
Bottom line: if you like Marvel movies, you'll like this. It doesn't really reinvent the wheel or bring anything of epic scale to the table (it doesn't go anywhere near INFINITY WAR), but it does tell a good story with some good action and fun interactions to go along with it. I didn't find it slow or boring in the least.
However, if you're of the camp who believes the misinformation that this movie is pushing some kind of SJW agenda or have an issue with who does or doesn't have the Captain Marvel name, this movie is not going to be for you. You're already going in wrong-headed and the movie will fail for you before it even begins. All I can do is remind you all that the movies do not follow the comics, and haven't for the last 20 years. They are their own thing.