Marvel Cinematic Universe

Loki – Season 2 Review

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A month and a bit late on this review, but hey-ho, I’ve been later with bigger shows! Loki Season 2 is a hard one to get my head around because as it was airing there wasn’t a week where I felt excited to watch the next episode, and in fact several weeks I watched the episode a few days after it “aired” whereas the other MCU / Star Wars Disney + shows I watched the night of the day they’re uploaded, with the only other exception being the recent MCU show Secret Invasion, so… that’s not a good sign for MCU TV projects… Anyway, on the other hand it had some really fun performances and a great end sequence, so it’s not really that bad, I just never felt invested in it… Let’s see if I can actually pull these random thoughts into a coherent review, shall we?

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Review

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Finally found two and a half hours to sit in front of the TV and catch up with the latest MCU film offering as we round out the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy with “Vol. 3”. While it’s almost TV-episode-like structure of flashing back to one character’s backstory at various points made it feel odd for a big budget movie, I did enjoy my time with the film, it has a good emotional heart at its story’s core and does end this side of the MCU well. Let’s take a look!

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Secret Invasion Review

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The MCU pushes forward with another TV show but sadly it’s among the first MCU properties I just didn’t click with. Sometimes great actors and acting can overcome a dull certain issues but this was not one of those times, I can’t quite put my finger of exactly why but the show never drew me in to the point where a few weeks I forgot it was on and watched it Thursday instead of the Wednesday it uploaded. To be so unengaged when such good actors were on my screen is a real sign of poor script and direction, I guess. Oh well, let’s take a closer look anyway…

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Review

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MCU’s fifth Phase kicks off with a film high on fun CG backdrops but low on actual fun. It cements Kang the Conqueror and his variants as a big threat, which given what’s come out about Jonathan Majors in the months since releases sucks because he is so good in it… Basically, it’s a mixed bag but certainly is more of a big flashy MCU movie than an Ant-Man movie, which is a shame given Paul Rudd’s comedic timing. Let’s take a deeper look, anyway…

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Review

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The final film in “Phase 4”, otherwise known as the “bit in between two big story arcs”, finishes in the same way as the others, as in being perfectly fine but not really worth shouting about. Sadly a lot of this has to do with the passing of Chadwick Boseman, whose charismatic presence was extremely missed from the film, and the choice of making Letitia Wright’s Shuri character the new central figure. Still though, we finally got an MCU version of Namor and he even has the crappy looking ankle wings! Hooray! Let’s take a close look…

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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Review

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The Second “holiday themed” TV special for the MCU and this time it’s a good old fashioned Christmas Special with the Guardians of the Galaxy. Admittedly while “Werewolf by Night” was a good standalone special this feels like a very light bit of humour more in the line of an extra or bonus feature. Still, tis the season to be mildly amused! Let’s take a look… Not that it’ll take long!

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Thor: Love and Thunder Review

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The latest Thor film is an interesting one as I found it more palatable than Ragnarok but a lot of people have been really down on it, citing reasons that I was previously down on Ragnarok for that I feel Love and Thunder addressed. Well, different strokes and all that! So let’s take a closer look at the further adventures of Thor…

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Werewolf By Night Review

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While I didn’t have time to do a horror-themed marathon this year at least the MCU has come along and given me a horror-themed “Special Presentation” to put up on the day itself. I’ve said this a lot lately when it comes to obscure Marvel comic characters weirdly getting live action appearances but the announcement that “Werewolf by Night” was getting a special episode legitimately made me laugh. What a crazy thing the MCU is now… Even weirder is the fact that the special episode was really good! One of the better MCU things in years, really. Let’s take a look!

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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Review

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So the much talked about She-Hulk MCU debut finally arrives and it’s a comedy show, complete with sitcom tropes and fourth wall breaks (very in character, comic-wise for the record!) while sprinkling in a few important cameos to make sure everyone knows that is still very much an entry in the overall saga. Well… apart from that ending, yesh. Didn’t like that at all… Erm, anyway, I’ll get to that in spoiler bit at the end of the review, either way let’s take a look at the series proper!

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Ms. Marvel Review

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This was a legitimately hard review to write as I didn’t particularly like my time watching the show but it wasn’t because it was bad per say, just that it felt very much aimed at an audience that wasn’t me. I have zero interest in the life of an American high school girl, regardless of race, and as such large parts of the show just felt like I was watching something I had to rather than because I wanted to, all thanks to a want to say that I’ve “watched all of the MCU”. It’s not a bad show, it may even be a great show if your young enough (or have been waiting for Muslims or Pakistan to get some much deserved positive screen time) but for me… well, let’s take a look before I give away the score now and be done with it!

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