Captain Marvel instal the new for android

But though Boden and Fleck wrote the screenplay (along with Geneva Robertson-Dworet), their talent for sharp banter and character interplay only shines in the scenes set on Earth. Captain Marvel is a surprisingly loopy celestial adventure of a film, one that digs deeper into the alien lore laid out in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy series.

Unlike those directors, Boden and Fleck get a little lost in the spectacle. Then again, neither did other small-budget filmmakers the company has plucked from relative obscurity, such as the Russo brothers, Jon Watts, and Taika Waititi.

They’re the kind of writer-director team that can coax nuanced performances from stars including Ryan Gosling, Ben Mendelsohn, and Ryan Reynolds, but they’re not obvious fits for the world of Marvel. The movie is directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who until now have worked in the realm of quiet, sensitive indie films like Half Nelson, Sugar, and 2015’s fantastically grotty gambling drama, Mississippi Grind. But as a film it’s only halfway there, filling in nerdy details about the larger cosmic concerns of the Marvel world but failing to stage one outstanding set piece in the process. Captain Marvel is a fine rollout for a character who will likely be dropping by many an Avengers movie for years to come. It’s more evocative of Marvel’s flatter “origin” movies that introduced big heroes: The first Thor, the first Ant-Man, and Doctor Strange all struck a carefully calibrated balance between their new star and a sparkling supporting cast, and featured an even mix of humor and action, but nonetheless felt a bit soulless.

But more often than not, it feels a little routine. The 21st entry in Marvel’s galactic film empire, and the first focused on a female superhero (played by Brie Larson), is a perfectly fun time at the movies that deftly lays out the stakes of its new character for many future appearances. With Captain Marvel, sadly, that streak is over. As the long-running, multiheaded collection of superhero franchises rolled on, it exhibited inventive comedy in Thor: Ragnarok and Ant-Man and the Wasp, staggering scale in Avengers: Infinity War, and a genuine cultural-paradigm shift with Black Panther. In recent years, the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe has seemed to keep finding exciting new territory to explore.

Captain Marvel instal the new for android