'Captain Marvel' Takes Flight — Through Very Familiar Skies
A couple of indie writer/directors get to play in the Marvel sandbox in this film about an intergalactic warrior (Brie Larson) who arrives on Earth with a warning about a secret alien invasion.
There are several moments in Captain Marvel — most of them intimate two-hander scenes between Agent Nick Fury (a digitally de-aged Samuel L. Jackson) and the main character (Brie Larson) — where the performances click, the comic chemistry catalyzes, the dialogue buzzes, and everything in this latest million-dollar superhero blockbuster seems downright... breezy.
Now: It's a breeziness. A breeziness. A breeziness that doesn't feel forced, exactly, but that certainly feels forced. Because as they trade quips and cracks and grins while expositing about an intergalactic war between two alien races, you react to the quips and cracks and grins with a sense of satisfaction,incongruous.
