{"id":2707,"date":"2024-07-13T17:16:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T00:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2024-07-13T17:16:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T00:16:03","slug":"film-the-marvels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/07\/13\/film-the-marvels\/","title":{"rendered":"Film: The Marvels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Marvels<br><\/strong>published by Marvel Entertainment (which feels self referential, but isn&#8217;t)<br>2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Me, shouting:] THIS IS AN ACTION <strong>COMEDY<\/strong>.  Viewers laughed loudly in the theater with delight at appropriate moments when I saw it!  I enjoyed it.  It was intentionally silly.  It was perfectly <em>FINE<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>But whoever was responsible for most of the ad campaign should be interrogated and maybe have to spend a few years locked up with Loki, or perhaps reading rival DC&#8217;s hate mail. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film previews were misleading.  Maybe the ads came out during the writers-strike or were the work of an evil intern, but they featured dead Avenger flashbacks about fighting great evil, rather than <strong>costumed musical numbers involving a hot prince singing to Captain Marvel while she dances in a ballgown-version of her battle costume<\/strong>. (This was a surprise worth saving to delight my fellow movie-goers, but STILL.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Captain Marvel herself doesn&#8217;t seem to be having fun through much of the film, as the weight of possibly being a war criminal weighs heavily on her (ooopsie).  Luckily, <strong>Ms. Marvel is having enough fun for everyone<\/strong>.  And Monica Rambeau is grounded, consistent, and capable, playing it straight between star-struck Ms. Marvel and gloomy Captain Marvel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iuk77TjvfmE?si=t_P9mHwdiQ4kRcAC\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>If you like action hero comedies with mismatched buddies, disapproving parents, musical numbers, hot princes (hello, Park Seo-Jun!), secret marriages, flerkin kittens consuming Nick Fury&#8217;s staff, fangirls, and very poorly timed body swapping, this is a &#8216;light romp&#8217; in superhero-dom that you might enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marvelspublished by Marvel Entertainment (which feels self referential, but isn&#8217;t)2023 [Me, shouting:] THIS IS AN ACTION COMEDY. Viewers laughed loudly in the theater with delight at appropriate moments when I saw it! I enjoyed it. It was intentionally silly. It was perfectly FINE. But whoever was responsible for most of the ad campaign should &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/07\/13\/film-the-marvels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Film: The Marvels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2708,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/2708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}