Brie Larson is a great choice for Marvel’s all-powerful hero
CAPTAIN MARVEL (12A, 124mins)
The Marvel universe has moved on from just providing superheroes bashing the living daylights out of people.
Guardians of the Galaxy showed it all could be done with some great humour and Black Panther revealed the franchise was thinking about being inclusive.
And now we have Captain Marvel, which will be welcomed as heartily as Wonder Woman was in the DC world, finally providing us with a strong female lead.
Brie Larson is a great choice for the all-powerful hero, giving us a real feeling that she is a human being, not just a 2D character from a comic.
As the film starts we are on the Kree homeworld, a race of powerful human-like beings. Vers (Larson) is one of them, being trained by YonRogg (Jude Law) in the battle against the Skrull.
However, after a mission she ends up on Earth where the real fun begins.
What are the memories she has of our planet all about? And who is she really?
It’s all good fun as the action is set in the ’90s, with a young looking Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg). There’s a strong storyline, masses of great action and humorous touches.
The film slots into the wider Marvel universe and the midcredit sequence leads us into the next Avengers film. But once the initial excitement fades, how will Captain Marvel compare with the many others in the franchise?
For me it will rank very high as the films are definitely getting stronger each time.