The Incredible Hulk movie imo is pretty good and does count as part of the MCU. For me I think Antman and Wasp was pretty boring but IM3 is probably the worst of the MCU with Dark World a very close second.
Disney has no one to blame but themselves. It's apparently a space-comedy, not an epic action adventure, which they sold in the marketing.
Supposed Plot if anyone is interested: Spoiler - Carol is a pilot recruited by Project Pegasus to test a “hyperspeed engine” developed by Dr. Wendy Lawson AKA Mar-Vell and powered by energy extracted from the Tesseract. - Carol is attacked by the Skrulls and the engine explodes. She absorbs its energy before being rescued by Mar-Vell and taken to Hala by Yon-Rogg, where she is brainwashed into believing she is a Kree warrior whose powers come from an implant on her neck. - Carol is captured by the Skrulls during a mission and Talos probes her mind for information on the Tesseract. Carol escapes and goes to Earth, where the Skrulls are hiding, and crosses paths with Nick Fury, who decides to help her. - Talos masquerades as Fury’s boss and frames Fury for being a Skrull. SHIELD tracks Carol and Fury to Project Pegasus headquarters, but Coulson lets them escape. - Carol believes that the Skrulls are bloodthirsty conquerors, and the Kree are noble warriors defending the galaxy from them, but slowly realizes the Kree have the conquerors and have been wiping out “lesser cultures” and exploiting their resources for centuries. They attacked the Skrulls first but the Skrulls have been able to fight back. - The big twist is that Mar-Vell and Talos both defected and had been working together to harness the Tesseract’s energy in order to end the war. Carol was not attacked by the Skrulls, but by the Kree. - Carol, Fury, Maria Rambeau and Talos team up to retrieve the Tesseract from Mar-Vell’s space station in Earth’s orbit, where Talos also reunites with his wife and daughter whom Mar-Vell had been protecting from the Kree, but Yon-Rogg and Ronan arrive with a Kree armada to retrieve the Tesseract and destroy the Skrulls on Earth. - Carol gets rid of the implant, unlocking her full powers, and destroys the Kree armada before confronting Yon-Rogg one last time in the desert and announcing she’s no longer under his control. The Kree are forced to retreat, and Carol gives Fury a pager to contact her if he needs help before leaving with Talos to continue Mar-Vell’s efforts to end the war. - There is a running gag of Fury almost losing his eye in dangerous situations throughout the movie, only for Goose to unceremoniously scratch it off in the end. - The film doesn't really have a main villain. The "villain" is the idea that people keep on telling Carol that she is less capable than she really is, and her arc is overcoming that and embracing her true power. It's all internal conflict. - Talos is a lot fun and a total bro in the end, Yon-Rogg is okay but unremarkable, and most of his dialogue is exposition. - Post-credits scene as previously reported (Endgame scene of Carol meeting up with the remaining Avengers and Goose barfing up the Tesseract in the 90's).
Huh, not too bad twists on the formula you ask me. Though I’m sure that quite a lot of comic diehards are going to have a problem with Spoiler Mar-Vell being gender swapped. That’s Annette Bening’s character isn’t it?
The first one is hilarious, since it means they pretty much match the reason most people don't care for her in the comics.
See, those don't connect to some big over arching story like IM2, IM3, and TDW do though. The MCU is basically like watching a TV show. Infinity War and Endgame is the two part season finale. Every TV show has its bad episodes, but you still rewatch those episodes when you rewatch the entire series.
So...I'm understanding that it's a decent movie, but far from being the best the MCU has to offer, yes? Eh, I'm sure I'll enjoy it anyway. Not as much as if they had actually made Carol an interesting character (I'm pretty sure every other Captain Marvel is more interesting than her), but whatever.
Maybe I'm jumping the gun here but it sounds like mostly positive reviews but clearly not a jaw-dropping, genre-bending, game-changing movie. The way I see it, you have four categories of Marvel movies Masterclass- Iron Man 1, Avengers 1, Winter Soldier, Civil War, Avengers 3 Middle of the Road- Most Marvel movies Let's Pretend it Didn't Happen- Thor 2, Iron Man 2, probably more here but I'm not trying to get in depth. Offbeat and Awesome- Thor 3, Gotg 1 I did not include all Marvel movies in this subjective categorization system. I guess Cap Marvel would go under middle of the road.
