Captain Marvel is now streaming on Digital HD, Blu-ray on June 11

Who is the captain now? From the moment the postcredit scene entered Avengers: Infinity War it became apparent that it was Captain Marvel (Brie Larson). Spoilers ahead.

Home video

Did you miss the theater? Marvel announced on May 8 that Captain Marvel would explode in digital form on May 28 and arrive on Blu-ray on June 11. The streaming version can be ordered from on Amazon . It is priced at $ 19.99, with additional features, for the HD version.

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On February 6, Disney General Manager Bob Iger said Captain Marvel will be the company's first movie to skip Netflix and head to the Disney Plus streaming service. Iger shared this news during a teleconference with Wall Street badysts, reported Deadline. ( More information about Disney Plus is here but if you like Marvel and Star Wars movies, it's best to change the budget to include another subscription soon.)

And n & # Do not forget to check the bonus content. According to co-director Anna Boden, a particularly strange scene did not make the difference, but should be in the form of additional sequences in the video edition. "There is a really fascinating, funny and funny scene that has not been selected for the final film, but yes, you will have to wait for the extras of the DVD," she said.

Box office

Captain Marvel opened on March 8 and quickly showed his super powers at the box office. On May 7, the film had already exceeded $ 1.1 billion worldwide, generating $ 421 million in the domestic market and $ 699 million internationally.

He claimed that the second largest World Opening Weekend totaled a superhero movie, followed by Avengers: Infinity War.

The film hid various places on historical lists, including the third largest. The national debut of March of all time and the seventh largest ever recorded in Marvel Cinematic Universe. Among the MCU movies, only the Avengers, Black Panther, Iron Man 3 and Captain America: Civil War movies opened up better.

Reviews

Here's what critics say.

Grand Self-Discovery Narrative
"Captain Marvel was worth waiting for.Two full-time women's empowerment with all the visual power you have Brie Larson is fierce and cool effortless as a warrior-pilot turned space warrior trying to figure out who she really is, and it does not hurt Hole, Elastica and Nirvana to set the tone for some of the greatest hits of the 90's Grunge is good on Marvel. " – Patricia Puentes, CNET

Good movie, bad time
" Most of the elements presented in Captain Marvel seem to have been configured for future Captain Marvel movies, and if Captain Marvel is not prepared for Endgame, why are we looking at him right now? " -Michael Rougeau, GameSpot

The greatest strength is its greatest weakness
"Captain Marvel is an excellent deployment for a character who is likely to be featured in many Avenger movies over the coming years. But as a film, he's only halfway through, providing details complicated on the wider cosmic concerns of the Marvel world, but failed to stage an exceptional piece in the process. " – David Sims, The Atlantic

Disordered History with Smart Twists
" Captain Marvel is everywhere, rising from a very cosmos glowing laser spray up to The streets chased by the car in Los Angeles in the 90s. This latest extension of Marvel Studios presents Brie Larson, winner of an Oscar, as an amnesiac (she is haunted by the memories of Annette Bening, as are all the best human beings). who she is, and the film around her has a similar problem. Captain Marvel does not understand that towards the end, when a couple is deformed, I will not spoil the saga to make it a race of mercy. " -Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly

Brie Larson Strikes Back
" Captain Marvel, Marvel's first adaptation to both interpreting a woman and being co-directed by a woman, is an obvious film, raw and transparent. And it's also very nice and evocative – most of the time. " – April Wolfe, The Wrap

Tribute to Stan Lee

Marvel Comics leader Stan Lee died in November 2018 at the age of 95 but it's not forgotten in the company's movies, including this one. "Lee is famous for making cameos in Marvel's films, and his appearance in Captain Marvel is Even more special: not only does it make its traditional appearance in the film but it is honored as soon as the film begins with a careful editing

"We wanted to somehow pay tribute to Stan Lee. in this movie, obviously, "said director Anna Boden at Metro." It was something that came from Marvel and when they showed it to us, there was no dry skin in the House. It was really moving. "

More Powerful than Thanos?

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige recently declared Cosmic Book News that Captain Marvel is the most powerful character in the universe Marvel film.

"She is one of the most popular characters in our comics, she is one of the most powerful characters in comics and will be the most powerful character. Feige said.

Controversy over bombings

Even before most fans could see Captain Marvel, some people had posted negative comments on the Rotten Tomatoes review site, a process that some people have called "examination". -Bombardment. "Some comments focus on Larson's remarks to Marie Claire magazine on the need to ensure that a diverse group of critics can see her film." Larson made it clear that men's n & # 39; 39 "did not need to attend this film," said a comment.

What Larson actually said? She said she noticed that the press that covered her films was " a man of unparalleled whiteness. "After this was confirmed by a USC study, she said" to go forward, I decided to m & # 39; Ensure that my press days are more inclusive. "She also called for supporting disadvantaged girls who see the film.

Larson was asked about the reaction to her statement after the start of the attack to bomb and told Fox 5 in Washington that she was not trying to Prevent Access,

"What I'm looking for is to bring more seats to the table," Larson said. "Nobody gets his chair removed, there are not less seats at the table, but more seats at the table."

On February 25, Rotten Tomatoes changed sites so readers could not comment. The film that preceded the film was screened in cinemas, but the president of the company told CNET that the changes were not solely caused by Captain Marvel's controversy.

Once the movie is open, the audience score is moved up and down. Some of these critical bombers probably came back after publishing honest reviews, both negative and positive. But less than a week after the beginning of the film, the audience was 63%, while the Tomatometer, which sums up the critics, was 79%.

Bases of the Bladder

Avengers: Endgame is three hours long It was comforting to learn that Captain Marvel does not push fans bladders at this point. It's just 2 hours, 5 minutes. The film is rated PG-13 (unsurprisingly), for "sequences of violence and action sci-fi, as well as a brief suggestive language".

Connection to Avengers: Endgame

Why is Captain Marvel so important? All this goes back to this scene of Infinity War.

In the scene, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) find themselves in the middle of the chaos caused by Thanos as half of the universe's population disappears. Fury manages to use his pager and apparently sends a message to Captain Marvel, who himself disappears in the dust. As her film arrives before the next Avengers films, it seems that she has an important role to play in Avengers: Endgame perhaps saving the universe from a Skrull invasion by . ] Marvel Studios

Who is Captain Marvel?

Captain Marvel? Not really the most famous superhero of all time. But his film is the 21st of the Cinematic Universe of Marvel and if it wants to attract this kind of postcredited attention, the fans would be interested in refreshing his record.

You can delve into its antecedents and history with this exploder . A short version: This version of the character, Carol Danvers, was created in 1968. She was an air force pilot, CIA agent, NASA security director and writer. She also fought against alcohol, such as Iron Man Tony Stark, and his personal fights have been featured in many comic book editions.

His superpowers came from a kree alien named Mar-vell, the original Captain Marvel, and included theft, super strength, the ability to absorb and use the Energy, as well as to shoot flashes of energy and lasers from his hands.

And, spoiler ahead, she has an additional power that could change the game, revealed co-star Samuel L. Jackson. Stop reading here if you do not want to know …

"We now know that we need something as powerful as Thanos," Jackson told Entertainment Tonight. "And at some point, we will discover how powerful she is and all the things she is capable of.She is one of the few people in the Marvel Universe to be able to travel in time, then. .. "

Yes, time travel, what the Avengers of Infinity War could certainly use now.

Many characters took the name of Captain Marvel, and even DC Comics had an (unrelated) character from Captain Marvel (aka Shazam), although, to this day, the Marvel Universe does have no "Captain DC".

        
            
        

            
    

    

Larson described his character to EW: "She can be aggressive, and she can be angry, and she can be a bit overwhelming and face-to-face. that makes her incredible in combat because she is the first and that she does not always wait for orders. But waiting (or not) orders is, for some, a character defect. "

The film begins with Danvers in the movie Kree Starforce's elite military team, led by the enigmatic commander of Jude Law. Ben Mendelsohn plays Talos, the leader of the Skrulls, and saying much more about both groups would spoil the entertainment.

The film takes place in the 1990s, which perhaps explains why, in the postcredit scene of Infinity War, Nick Fury hands it out with a pager, not a smartphone. (Speaking of the 1990s, star Brie Larson is almost born in this decade – October 1, 1989 – which gives some of us the feeling of being as old as a bottle of Zima unopened.)

Why the 1990s? Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said everything would be revealed in the story, but he also told the Toronto Sun that the period would feel cool. "This allows us to play in an area in which we have never played before, and tapping into a 90s kind of action was fun for us," Feige said.

Even the film's Web site is adorned with all the Web craziness of the 1990s that we saw online, with rainbow text and random flashes, and so on.

And Captain Marvel's executive producer, Jonathan Schwartz, told ComicBook. com that the movie of the 1990s pays homage to other action movies of the 1990s. "If you think of movies such as RoboCop, Total Recall, Terminator 2 or Independence Day, I think that's what you're doing. there are some common themes of action movies that you can discover among those we are trying to film in this film, "he said.

With regard to Captain Marvel herself, you may know the star Larson because of her award-winning role in an Oscar as a victim of kidnapping forced to endure and raise her son in captivity in Room, in 2015. She also starred in 2017 Kong: Skull Island .

In the movie, some faces are familiar to Marvel fans and some new ones.

• Samuel L. Jackson will play a young Nick Fury (as you saw above). Producer Jonathan Schwartz told Mashable that the film was "almost two men" between the captain and Fury. And do not call him Nick. "Everyone calls him Fury, even his mother," Jackson told Mashable.
• Clark Gregg returns as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson, who died in the modern chronology of the film Marvel, but living in the film of the 1990s.
• Lee Pace comes back under the name of Ronan the accuser, a member fanatic of the foreign Kree race last seen in Guardians of the Galaxy. (In August 2018, Pace posted what appears to be a vacation video in which he wears a Captain Marvel hat and wears a pretty, unkempt holiday beard.)

• Djimon Hounsou returns as Korath, allied with Ronan's Kree and feared the intergalactic hunter, also appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy.
• Gemma Chan plays Minn-Erva, a kree geneticist. She does not like Carol very much.

• Jude Law plays the Starforce Commander and Danvers Mentor. He and Mendelsohn are not quite as they seem.
• Ben Mendelsohn plays Talos, the leader of the Skrulls.
• Annette Bening plays Dr Wendy Lawson, who conveys something very special to Carol.
• Carol also has a cat, Goose (a change of Chewie's name from the comics). His purring buddy turns out to be something special under the soft fur coat