![]() ![]() A Deadline report from this summer lamented that only three of the top-grossing movies of 2016 were shot in California using state tax incentives, and not a single production with a budget of $100 million or more decided to film here. If the production is spending the majority of its shoot in California, that's a big deal. OmegaUnderground noticed a report on a site called MyEntertainmentWorld that claims Captain Marvel is returning to California to shoot in February of 2018. Some subsequent productions have filmed bits and pieces in Los Angeles – Iron Man 3 has a brief explosion sequence at what is now the TCL Chinese Theater, for example – but the majority of Marvel Studios productions have moved either to Georgia or overseas to film. ![]() But, in the meantime, we can say for sure that this isn’t the end of Carol, Monica, or Kamala’s stories, and The Marvels will leave you wanting more of them immediately.Marvel Studios used to have production space in Manhattan Beach, California, not far from Hollywood, and that's where films like Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier shot. ![]() If we’re very lucky, maybe we’ll see her return to the MCU for future projects. You can see bits and pieces of her style sprinkled throughout the film, even if the spots where the Marvel Machine took over are evident. The Marvels does have a couple of less-than-stellar frames but, on the whole, it is a vast improvement on recent MCU fare.ĭaCosta delivers a film with no bloat, tons of heart, and endless laughs. It’s amazing what can be accomplished when VFX artists are given time to cook, which is exactly what happened: The Marvels swapped release dates with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, giving the teams behind this film more runway and their Quantumania counterparts, well… we all saw what happened there. Speaking of Flerken, the visual effects here look quite solid. Sometimes, the answer is to simply stop running from the Flerken. The Marvels simply understands that many of the things that unfold in superhero yarns – particularly this one – are deeply silly, or weird, or uncomfortable, and has no interest in self-seriousness in the face of that silliness and discomfort. It evokes the silliness of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow more than once, and even goes slapstick a few times early on, all of which plays quite well and never at the expense of the film's downbeat moments. A team-up to halt an intergalactic revenge plot isn’t a story that screams “hilarious”, but this one is brimming with laughs from start to finish. The Marvels’ greatest strength is most certainly its ensemble, but the comedy is a close second. Also, many of the Kree lackeys look pretty cool thanks to makeup and costume designs, but her right hand man is just some dude with a manbun (Ty-Rone, played by Daniel Ings). She’s simply not given a whole lot to do beyond serving as the reason that Carol, Monica, and Kamala are together. ![]() Marvel struggled with undeveloped baddies in Phase 1, and it continues to struggle with underdeveloped baddies in Phase 5. While she’s certainly a sympathetic villain, Dar-Benn is unfortunately one of the weakest parts of The Marvels (through no fault of Ashton’s). Hala is dying as a result, and Dar-Benn will stop at nothing to save it and her people. Our villain, Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton), is a survivor of the Kree civil war that followed Captain Marvel’s destruction of the Supreme Intelligence, the AI that ruled over Dar-Benn’s home planet of Hala. In fact, the primary conflict is centered on Carol Danvers’ wartime mistakes and their fallout. Perhaps what’s most refreshing here is that where Captain Marvel – despite its merits – felt like a living, breathing ad for military recruitment (no, really, there were literal Air Force ads), The Marvels is the antithesis of that. ![]()
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