THE MARVELS [Disney+]

The Marvels is the 33rd movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The budget for The Marvels was around $270 million according to a report from Forbes, making it the fourth most-expensive MCU movie and the highest budget for a non-Avengers film. With just an  $80 million  gross at the domestic box office, “The Marvels” is the only MCU film to fail to cross the $100 million mark—falling more than $50 million behind the $134 million grossed by the domestic box office’s second-worst performer, “The Incredible Hulk.” Now The Marvels is featured on Disney+.



The director of The Marvels , Nia DaCosta (“ Little Woods ,” “ Candyman ”), who co-wrote the screenplay with  Megan McDonnell  and Elissa Karasik is going to find it difficult to direct another MCU movie with the poor showing of this film.



Brie Larson plays  Captain Marvel a.k.a. Carol Danvers , a former Air Force pilot who inadvertently picked up superpowers. Marvel should have just stuck with Captain Marvel instead of adding Teyonah Parris  as  Monica Rambeau , and  Iman Vellani  as  Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel ,to an over-plotted, overextended, overstuffed movie.



Part of the problem of The Marvels is the necessity of taking a lot of time on the screen to bring the audience up-to-date on all the backstories necessary to explain what the heck is going on. The Kree attack The Skrulls and Captain Marvel and her two buddies need to fix the disaster affects before the Universe is damaged.



Did The Marvels need a dance number? Why do all the fight scenes seem lame? Why does this $270 million movie look like it was made for TV?



As one of those Marvel fans who has seen all 33 MCU movies and watched the Ms Marvel TV series as well as WandaVison , I found The Marvels tedious. Maybe this is one of reasons Disney stock is down. GRADE: C