Captain Marvel is an exciting film where you’ll not spend even one moment bored. The action scenes are exciting, the special effects are cool, and we get to see Skrulls and a young Nick Fury. We also learn why Captain Marvel is so important and how Nick Fury lost his eye.
Thematically, the movie fits in with the Phase 1 movies by being an origin story, but the morality in this film is both at home with the Phase 1 movies’ idealistic stance as well as the later Phases’ more complex morality, like Captain America: Civil War.
Another way Captain Marvel is special is how the film empowers women. Captain Marvel is the most powerful superhero, whose power only grows throughout the film, and there is emphasis on how when she gets knocked down, she always gets back up. Even without including her, the Supreme Intelligence in the film appears as a woman due to taking the form of the person most admired by the person seeing the Supreme Intelligence, as well as Maria Rambeau, who is a single black mother and a military pilot. This is especially noteworthy because the biggest female character before this film was Black Widow, and she didn’t even have her own movie. Now, we have a female character who is the only one with any hope to defeat Thanos.