Grammer might have also preferred not spending 10 hours in a makeup chair for a short cameo so CG was the easiest route. My hope is they give him a fluffy suit and mocap dots if he plays Beast in future release.

oh man, I am digging this theory. Especially with X-men ‘97 being on the docket - this actually makes sense.

Develop the cinematic X-men via the animated front (in line with what James Gunn is doing), then drop that version in Secret Wars - character development is already done! And they can leverage actors we already…

As I said in a comment elsewhere, Beast was *very* reminiscent of the 90s cartoon, and not like the heavily-made up Grammer from The Last Stand. I don’t think this is the Fox universe at all.

“ We didn’t get to witness her decades of space adventures, so her reputation as an interstellar heroine rings hollow.”

They need to start her subsequent films like Indiana Jones, where the opening is the conclusion of one adventure before getting to the meat of the film. These openings for Carol can be set in the past…

This was actually something I almost liked, but they should have gone just a little bit harder.
Carol is a pretty damaged person in these movies. She’s brainwashed and mind-fracked in at least two or three overlapping ways (she still doesn’t seem to have all her memories working properly from the original mindwipe and…

This is how I felt. I thought the jokes were also far better integrated and less distracting than some Marvel outings. They have a tendency to completely undercut emotional beats, or to just say “get it?” This had some wacky sci-fi stuff that worked really well, imo. The Flerken scene was played for laughs, but they…

As another poster pointed out, the problem with the Young Avengers is that they’re very much going to be the 30-ish Avengers by the time they actually get together, at the current rate.

“I’d buy another ticket to see her try that stunt on Yelena.”

Actually pretty decent. The three leads have very good chemistry together, and the 90 minute runtime does wonders to make it feel snappy and well-paced (and basically earns it an extra half-star as a result). If they’d tried stretching it to 2 hrs+ it would have floundered, but it succeeds pretty well. That said, there…

I disagree with you a bit on No. 2 — I felt the movies did a good job integrating the most relevant bits from Monica and Kamala’s respective shows. And the mind-meld scene did a good job of both fleshing out Monica’s issues with Carol and part of Carol’s reticence toward returning home after Maria died. 

I liked it -- the comparison to the Phase 1 movies tracks for me. I can also see the case for spending some more time with both Dar-Benn and Prince Yan but the story zipped by well enough that I don’t mind it so much. Kamala being the catalyst for finally getting the Young Avengers on track is a very good plot beat;…

they almost certainly had a bit where Kamala explained that she was a mutant (which is pertinent here!)

I really enjoyed it! The three stars had good chemistry, the plot was not overly convoluted and there was good humor to it. Of the recent MCU films, let’s say the last two years or so, I’d rank it higher than Quantumania, Love and Thunder, Wakanda Forever, The Eternals and Black Widow and on par with some of the…

Yeah, all of the character stuff was great, some of the best in a Marvel film. All of the capital-P Plot stuff was incredibly underbaked.

Let me debunk the most popular excuses why this movie bombed:

No, this is completely different! MY CABBAGE GUY!!!

I believe the actor who voiced the Cabbage Merchant in the series is reprising his role in the live action version!

uh, where’s the cabbage guy? no cabbage guy, no deal.

It’s not really that surprising. Pretty much every villain of the corrupt businessman variety from the late ‘80s and early ‘90s was based to some degree on Trump.

Kotaku is mostly AI written articles and clickbait now. The fact they can’t even get their tags right anymore just shows what a poorly run enterprise it is now.