Captain Marvel

You gotta admire the Marvel franchise.  It's had so many inroads and successes for this long and how each of their films is more than dual purpose in offering extended narratives, introductions, context, and clues to ultimately push the Avengers narrative further. So after the success of the groundbreaking Black Panther, I would think that Marvel's first real ambitious endeavour into a female character would also catch fire in a unique way.  This is not to say that Captain Marvel is a bad movie and that Brie Larson wasn't great because she was.  One of the major problems I had was with the tone of the film being part campy like Ant Man or Guardians Of The Galaxy, but without the endearing charm.  The story is a bit convoluted also, but Larson is pretty amazing in her embodiment of the character and Jude Law is good enough as a villain.  Beyond this, Captain Marvel serves, in this first installment anyway, as a prelude full of worthy easter eggs to Avengers: Endgame.