Vers, a blond woman, is member of the Starforce, a branch of the Kree civilization. Her mentor, Yon-Rogg, assigns her to fight against another alien race, the shapeshifting Skrulls, alleging that they want to get a fast-than-light device to invade far corners of the Galaxy. After briefly remembering unknown flashbacks from her past on Earth, Vers decides to travel to said planet to find Dr. Wendy Lawson, who invented the device. It is 1 9 9 5. Vers teams up with S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Nick Fury to try to find the device. It turns out Vers was a human, Carol Danvers, who worked for the U.S. Air Force, testing the device until it exploded, and her body absorbed its energy, so Yon-Rogg took her to Kree and gave her a new memory. Vers finds out that Skrulls are actually the good guys, who just want to find a new home to escape from Krees who wanted to subjugate them. Vers becomes Captain Marvel and uses her powers to defeat the Krees. Marvel leaves with the Skrulls, but leaves Fury with a pager to contact her in case of an emergency.
The 21st movie of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, "Captain Marvel" is a 'too late' edition to the franchize, shoehorned just before the big showdown in "Avengers: Endgame", yet it still works as a good and fun piece of entertainment. By this time, the Marvel CU became something of a McDonalds for superhero movies, producing at least two per year, but even though they were giving comic-book fans just what they liked, they still delivered interesting movies. "Captain Marvel" shows that Marvel has quite imaginative fantasy or sci-fi stories to tell, especially in the intruiging twist in the vein of "The good guys fighting against the bad guys are actually the bad guys fighting against the good guys", where the heroine Vers finds out that she was mislead, which makes her a flawed, more likeable character that grows and corrects herself, whereas Brie Larson was restrained by the directors Boden and Fleck to not go overboard. The whole film is too mainstream and too accessible at times, trying to not offend anyone as to be as commercial as possible, whereas its best moments are smple jokes (Stan Lee has a delicious cameo as himself reading the "Mallrats" script; Vers enters a train and kicks a grandmother in the face, the passengers are shocked, but the grandmother suddenly starts fighting with Vers, since she is a shapeshifting Skrull), including Samuel L. Jackson as Fury, with a digital 'face-lift' (a funny gag has him looking under the sheet of a dead Skrull alien, to see how it looks like "down there", while the autopsy guy adds that the alien "is no Brad Pitt"). The final 25 minutes are the worst, giving Captain Marvel ridiculously impossible superpowers, to such an extent that not even Superman with Super Mario's super star power wouldn't be able to compete with her, making the stakes very low in the story. Nonetheless, this light superhero movie is fun, dynamic and competent in its own way, and still fits in inside Marvel CU.
Grade:++
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