"IS MS MARVEL: Worth Watching or Not" ?

 Since Ms. Marvel is definitely aimed at younger audiences and is much more family-oriented, so I thought I’d take a look at it and see how it’s carried. This may not be a surprise to any of you, but I wasn't eagerly waiting for Ms. Marvel at Disney Plus. It's there, it's watchable and while it doesn’t do anything particularly noteworthy, it doesn’t do anything offensively. This time our superhero is a high schooler named Kamala khan and she's a massive captain marvel fan, which makes her unique in the school because she is the only person who is a captain marvel fan. She has posters of her in her room, and a costume dedicated to her, and she has an entire YouTube channel only for captain marvel.

Kamala’s internal conflicts in home life and the fantasies occupy her every waking thought. Miss marvel is another piece in the expanding MCU but thankfully it also shines on its own questions of identity and belonging are a repeat superhero theme. The show is not just doing paint by numbers origin story with a multiculturalism twist, instead, the first episode keeps the heart of the comic book while exploring how this beloved character fits into the MCU landscape in a visually arresting and fun manner. Often superheroes are torn between their powers and obligations but Kamala’s divided self is evident in the first scene with her family from the jump the various dynamics of the con home feel lived in and identifiable her mother is concerned with the usual boys and booze fear that runs parallel to growing independence. but in the first episode does a good job of establishing more of her strict rules than the typical curfew-breaking behavior we have decided to let you go, “really really real.”

The sequel itself is pretty fun. it's got a good vibe to it, nice energy it feels like a Spider-Man homecoming on the small screen. It also kind of reminded me of Scott pilgrim and no it's not near that level of amazing not even close but the way that it presents certain things, like text bubbles when someone's on their phone, or how it graffiti's on the side of the wall and animates it there's lots of playful stuff going on the effects on the show definitely do feel downgraded you have that tv show budget.

 

When she finally started using those powers, which are pretty wildly different from the character I’m familiar with from that stupid marvel video game avengers and I would imagine the comic book where she's more of a Reed Richards stretch Armstrong type thing. Here she has kind of quasi captain marvel powers but it's isolated to at least for now her hands can stretch I imagine she can do other things but it's all done through a power amulet. She conveniently got it from her grandmother's belongings this whole plot right now is kind of silly and childish. I’m hoping that starts to take shape as the show progresses because right now it's just a “convenient oh I found this and it happens to give me amazing superpowers”.

she uses the ability accidentally which knocks a giant ant-man head into a pool which becomes a giant Indiana Jones-style bowling ball, the physics on this thing is completely insane. It doesn't add up, I mean I’m not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination but the momentum that thing somehow conjured out of nowhere just didn't stack up. It didn't film correctly so this thing's just going to blow through a wall. For the most part, I really do dig the style they're going with here it's very youthful very energetic definitely very much speaking to me as a middle-aged guy I’m really getting that feeling characters are all likable I really enjoy Kamala’s family they seem fun and like they're going to get into some hijinks together kind of reminds me of Sam Warwick’s sent from those uh critically acclaimed transformers films, hey you know what they're dumb but they get the job done.

“We had the weekend to kick things off” I don't think that song was appropriately

Used I’m gonna be honest when it was in the trailers it worked a lot better when

they used it at the beginning of the show it didn't fit the template, it didn't fit the mold that song deserved better they should have saved it for a bigger moment.

As far as Disney shows go, this is one of the better ones I’ve seen, The MCU television slate continues to grow, and miss marvel is already making a strong case for Kamala khan as an exciting new addition this coming-of-age story includes some familiar elements of a teenager struggling to figure out the path ahead still the teenager's Muslim faith and expectations offer a new perspective, the directors immediately pull us in with some solid visual flourishes.

like I said family's ready for more. If this show is canceled soon, you won’t you’re your sleep anymore.

“Well, I don’t think it’s that special but at the same time, you know family always could use something to watch and this seems to work all right.”