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The Captain Marvel movie is so good! And so fun! Would see again. (I don't tend to rewatch movies, but I would totally go see this again soon.)

Spoiler-free capsule review: It's a delightful story of a young woman figuring out who she really is. Which sounds really wholesome, and it is, and it's also really fun and I would totally watch it again. And the 90s music was even more delightful than I anticipated -- I bopped in my seat to like every song. AND there's a political message! (I'm glad movie makers are learning the Thor: Ragnarok lesson -- superhero movies should be fun AND political.)

The fact that humor in particular (not just emotions generally) was such a defining characteristic of Carol made Fake Geek Boys on the Internet complaining about how she didn't smile in the trailer (spoilers: she did smile, multiple times, in that very trailer) extra ironic. Also: If you tell a woman to smile, she's now entitled to steal your motorcycle; sorry, I don't make the rules.

And the Skrulls are refugees! I remembered the bit from one of the trailers (which I think got cut from the final version of the film) where Carol says she's not here to help them fight this war but to end it, but I definitely assumed that was gonna be a more general "war is bad," not a plot-twist that actually the Skrulls aren't the enemy at all after all. Refugees who are branded as terrorists because they won't submit to imperial rule!

And Carol's new colors getting modeled after Monica :) And Monica is so fierce. She's gonna be a great Captain Marvel/Photon/Pulsar/whatever-she-wants-to-be-called when she grows up.

I'm still salty that Janet van Dyne, who canonically named The Avengers in the comics got so sidelined in the MCU, but having the Avengers Initiative named in honor of a(nother) woman is a nice touch.

I still don't wanna see Avengers: Endgame, but I look forward to the Internet providing me with the Captain Marvel bits thereof (I mean, that's what I did with Ant-Man, only with Peggy Carter).

Oh, and I really appreciated that Carol explicitly articulated that she didn't need to prove anything to Jude Law Yon-Rogg.

And did I mention being pandered to with the 90s music? (It would have been nice if the soundtrack had done the thing [personal profile] allofthefeelings was hoping for where it was all music by women, but I wasn't actually expecting that, and "Come As You Are" did make a nice Moment.) Also, when the imperial cruiser zips out of the sky at the end, it totally looked to me like when ships engage warp drive in Star Trek: The Next Generation. #More90sNostalgia

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