Thor is an oddity of a film, an often-jarring adventure that veers from sci-fi family tragedy to fish-out-of-water comedy with diminished success.
It has flaws, sure, and is almost derailed by a mid-credits cameo, but Eternals deserves points for shooting for something a little different.
However, it ranks as the MCU’s lowest-rated film to date on Rotten Tomatoes, an unfair placement considering Eternals at least tries to stray from the usual Marvel formula. Baby Groot, an entertaining prospect at first, also grates by the end.īoasting one hell of an ensemble (Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Bryan Tyree Henry), and being steered by Nomadland Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, Eternals prematurely convinced Marvel fans that the film would be a slam-dunk for the studio.
But, in all, it lacks the vim of the original, and creaks at the seams by the climax. Kurt Russell makes for a cracking villain, a planet-God-cum-absentee-father who milks every every drop of his quintessentially 1980s charisma. Guardians 2 takes the bright, unearthly hues of the original and doubles down. The 2017 sequel to James Gunn’s hit space opera was received a lot more tepidly than the original –despite being a clear step up from its predecessor, visually. Dare we say a Loki film might have been the better prospect? Ultimately, though, despite several fun moments (Alligator Loki!), the show felt like a buildup to the main event: the arrival of Jonathan Majors’ villain, Kang the Conqueror, who will return in Ant-Man: Quantumania. It’s also entertaining to see Tom Hiddleston’s God of Mischief attempting to assert his power in a place where he’s entirely stripped of it, an event that not only humbles him, but provides him with a purpose after being killed in Avengers: Endgame. There are meta thrills to be had in Loki, which explores the world of the Time Variance Authority (TVA), a bureaucratic organisation keeping every single event from the MCU – past, present and future – on track. The film ends up choppy and unwieldy as a result, although there is time for the introduction of the glamorous Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), who would go on to better things. It’s a moment that exemplifies the way Ultron feels like a cold, calculated operation from Marvel Studios and writer-director Joss Whedon.
Just in case we’d forgotten that the Disney corporation is an all-consuming titan that owns half of Hollywood, the sequel to 2012’s Avengers Assemble decided to sneak in a little corporate synergy: when Iron Man accidentally creates a sentient robot (voiced by James Spader) who decides the earth’s only salvation is through the destruction of humanity, he announces his grim plans with the accompaniment of a little citation of the classic “I’ve Got No Strings” from 1940’s Pinocchio. Throw in Walton Goggins’s scene-stealing villain Sonny Burch, as well as Lawrence Fishburne and Michelle Pfeiffer, and you’ve got a caper that moves along at a nice, brisk pace – as watchable as it is forgettable. A gritty, brisk but ultimately flawed instalment.Ī sequel that failed to really capitalise on its predecessor’s successes, Ant-Man and the Wasp is still far from an unmitigated failure, thanks in large part to Paul Rudd’s natural affability and the inherent comedy in Ant-Man’s big-and-small hijinks. Director Cate Shortland and writer Eric Pearson attempt to pry out new meaning from between the lines of the character’s official biography, setting their story in a time after Captain America: Civil War and before Avengers: Infinity War. Black Widow ends up landing as a valiant but chequered attempt to do justice to Marvel’s first female Avenger.
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