By Eduardo Ramirez

The last movie to come out before the release of Avengers: Endgame is Captain Marvel. Even though Wonder Woman from the DC universe has already been a success and should have put to rest the fact that people will go to a superhero movie that stars a woman, Captain Marvel had to overcome much of the same social justice hype.

Brie Larson the lead of this movie, playing Carol Danvers, did not help the cause by stating in an interview, “I do not need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn’t work for him about A Wrinkle in Time. It wasn’t made for him.”

Many thought that this would hurt the sales of this film, but it did make a killing in its opening weekend and has already turned a good profit. Hopefully, we can get back to the point where people can watch a movie and not have to worry about what category the lead falls into.

For now, this is a good movie. It is not the best Marvel movie, but it is entertaining. The action sequences are good, and Samuel L. Jackson, as a younger Nick Fury is great. We even learn how he got the eye patch. Be careful when you are down at the shelter picking out a new cat for the family.
We also find out another loose end that had to this point never been explained: what S.H.I.E.L.D. was doing for all the years in between Captain America and The Avengers with the Tesseract. It was given to Dr. Selvig at the end of Thor, and he used it to help Loki invade New York, but in this movie, we actually see how it came to be part of their stockpile of stuff.

Actually, in Captain America: The First Avenger, the Red Skull found it in Norway and used it to power his evil Hydra weapons. Then Howard Stark found it at the bottom of the sea when he was looking for Captain America. But, then it was lent to Mar Vell a scientist who wanted to use it to power a light speed engine. When that engine was destroyed by the Kree, Carol Danver’s call sign, “Avenger,” became Captain Marvel. That is one busy infinity stone.

Watching this film did not make me think that I was watching a woman hero and that this would have been played better by a man or some other identity group, I just watched the movie, enjoyed it, and placed it in the larger picture of the Marvel Universe.

These stories have already been printed in comic books for decades, so the controversy of who is a hero and who is not should not even be a question at this point.

This is a good movie. You should check it out, especially if you are going to Endgame on April 26. But if you are thinking that this is a great movie for you because Larson is a woman, then stay home.

The plot of this story is about a woman who loves her home and her country, who has overcome adversity of galactic proportions, and now is a defender of Earth, as a soon-to-be-Avenger.

Brie Larson should not worry about who is going to see her movie, just that there are enough fans to support a wide range of heroes and heroines in the Marvel Universe.

Maybe one day this will just be a good movie instead of a good feminist movie. Now let’s see what she does in Endgame.