Captain Marvel The Rotten Tomatoes/Critic's Reaction Thread

[Shuri]

Initial meta critic is 60 with 4 reviews.

How bad is this compared to other MCU movie?

 

[samsnee]

Variety gave a positive review

Film Review: Brie Larson in ‘Captain Marvel’

In “Captain Marvel,” Brie Larson radiates an ability that too many comic-book heroes never get the chance to show: the superpower of expression. She plays a Kree warrior, known as Vers (pronounced verse), who has been trained in the familiar comic-book-movie art of kicking cosmic butt (she specializes in leaping and flying martial-arts moves). Yet what you can’t help but notice, apart from the slithery bravura of her combat skills, is the feeling she brings to the fight. When she’s up against a gang of Skrulls, with her forearms locked inside a pair of molten cylinders, she’s game as hell, but then the cylinders come off, and it sparks a righteous “Yeah!” and a grin of triumph. Larson seems to be saying: It’s a Marvel movie! If we’re not having an otherworldly blast, what’s the point?

 

[HammerDown]

IGN - 8.3 out of 10
Gamesradar - 4 / 5
Indiewire - 2 / 5
Variety - Positive
Cnet - Positive
The Guardian - 3 / 5
Screenrant - 4 / 5

 

[TheScarecrow]

Mixed to negative from Jeremy Jahns

 

[Silver Surfer]

LA times : Positive
Chicago Sun: Positive

 

[samsnee]

'Captain Marvel': Film Review

Whereas Variety praised Brie's performance, THR found it bland

If this much is clear, one should be grateful for small favors, as matters presently become more than murky. Perhaps we're meant to excuse this because Danvers herself is uncertain about her past, although we do see, via a flashback, that as a girl she was very keen on go-cart racing. Revealing as this may or may not be of her addiction to speed and risk, her place in the grand scheme of things remains vague; just as she shuttles between the cosmic and Earthbound, the film itself bounces about without any sense of logic or progression, to the point of appearing nearly chaotic. Under the direction of heretofore indie filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Sugar, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Mississippi Grind), nothing is prepared or built up to, with scenes just slapped on the screen with no less or more weight given to one over another; it's the cinematic equivalent of elementary brick and mortar construction.

 

[Micromind]

Variety gave a positive review

Film Review: Brie Larson in ‘Captain Marvel’

In “Captain Marvel,” Brie Larson radiates an ability that too many comic-book heroes never get the chance to show: the superpower of expression. She plays a Kree warrior, known as Vers (pronounced verse), who has been trained in the familiar comic-book-movie art of kicking cosmic butt (she specializes in leaping and flying martial-arts moves). Yet what you can’t help but notice, apart from the slithery bravura of her combat skills, is the feeling she brings to the fight. When she’s up against a gang of Skrulls, with her forearms locked inside a pair of molten cylinders, she’s game as hell, but then the cylinders come off, and it sparks a righteous “Yeah!” and a grin of triumph. Larson seems to be saying: It’s a Marvel movie! If we’re not having an otherworldly blast, what’s the point?

That's encouraging.

 

[BaelaTargaryen]

Initial meta critic is 60 with 4 reviews.

Now 66 with 13 reviews.

 

[Shuri]

IGN - 8.3 out of 10
Gamesradar - 4 / 5
Indiewire - 2 / 5
Variety - Positive
Cnet - Positive
The Guardian - 3 / 5
Screenrant - 4 / 5

Who posts the reviews on RT? I'm asking because none of these is on RT yet.

 

[HammerDown]

IGN - 8.3 out of 10
Gamesradar - 4 / 5
Variety - Positive
Cnet - Positive
The Guardian - 3 / 5
Screenrant - 4 / 5
Polygon - Positive
LA Time - Positive
The Wrap - Positive
Screen International - Positive

HR - Mixed ?
Screen Crush - Mixed ?

Indiewire - 2 / 5

 

[samsnee]

https://io9.gizmodo.com/captain-marvel-stands-tall-in-her-nostalgic-cinematic-d-1833050958

But for me, personally, it is the strength of Maria and Carol’s relationship that elevates the film to another level. While the MCU has shown women working together (Nakia, Shuri, and Okoye in Black Panther), as well as part of a hot/cold sibling rivalry (Gamora and Nebula), Maria and Carol’s relationship is truly the first time we’ve seen women in a close life-defining friendship.

All that being said, Captain Marvel still doesn’t solve the origin story issue that has plagued every superhero film thus far, whether they be from the DCEU or Marvel. There are several lulls, especially in the first act. Some of them are caused by the jumping back and forth in time between when Carol was an Air Force pilot, and when she lands on Earth as part of the Kree. Unless you know the story from the comics, it can be a bit confusing until the pieces start to connect about mid-way through the film.

 

[HammerDown]

TOMATOMETER
86%
Average Rating: 7.12/10
Reviews Count: 35
Fresh: 30
Rotten: 5

 

[samsnee]

Another disappointed review

https://film.avclub.com/the-dream-of-the-90s-is-alive-in-the-underwhelming-capt-1833044950

For now, there’s the underwhelming Captain Marvel, which, like its hero, is trying to make up for lost time. The 21st entry in this movie franchise to beat all movie franchises is also the first to feature a female lead, introducing audiences to Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), a former Air Force test pilot who returns to Earth as an alien super-soldier with only the haziest recollections of her past life. But while some of the most compelling movies in the MCU cycle—say, Black Pantheror Captain America: Civil War—have rested on the shoulders of heroes who understood their own symbolism, Larson’s photon-blasting spacefarer remains a blank slate.

Captain Marvel ditches most of that complicated backstory, but doesn’t develop the character beyond a handful of beats. Unfortunately, it also has a lackluster plot; bog-standard chase scenes and pew-pewing space ships; a notable shortage of interesting characterizations; and a fight scene set to No Doubt’s “Just A Girl” that is nowhere as awesome or as silly as it should be.

 

[Spider-Fan]

TOMATOMETER
86%
Average Rating: 7.12/10
Reviews Count: 35
Fresh: 30
Rotten: 5

Page still shows 1 review for me?

 

[Kev4000]

This Reviews…. Im sad to be honest, I was hoping for better.

 

[HammerDown]

Page still shows 1 review for me?

Refresh it a couple of times. It will show up eventually.
Check the movie page.

 

[jmc]

This one's all over the place, lol.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Refresh it a couple of times. It will show up eventually.
Check the movie page.

I had to click into it from Google to get it to work. Going directly to the site wouldn't refresh it for some reason.

 

[JOE]

30 fresh and 5 rotten? I’ll take that all day long after the stuff I’ve read. 80% and up would be an absolute win for this movie!

 

[MahvelBaby!]

Average rating ain't bad albeit after 35 reviews. I think it will be ok!

 

[BoredGuy]

Aquaman and Venom had RT's of 65% and 29%, respectively

so a score in the 80's should still get this movie to $1b easily

 

[samsnee]

I feel like international is usually more friendly than US reviews, so there's a chance this can go up higher since it's mostly US reviews so far.

 

[Saitou Hajime]

High 70s, low to mid 80s it's looking like. Not bad all things considering. We've just been spoiled by the past 3 years.

 

[Silver Surfer]

Seattle Times: Positive
SFGate: Positive
EW: Positive
The Wrap: Positive

 

[HammerDown]

I feel like international is usually more friendly than US reviews, so there's a chance this can go up higher since it's mostly US reviews so far.

I think there's definitely a good chance the rating could increase.