I promise brevity will reign here. Just thinking about Marvel Studios plunge into their so called 'Multiverse' gives me a splitting headache......let alone writing about it.
Always remember this......no matter how ridiculously complex these Marvel projects are becoming, it will always, always, always end up the same way.
Someone in a Halloween Shop costume will pound on someone else in a Halloween Shop costume.....usually picking them up and hurling them across long distances......until they crash into a building, car, wall or something else destructible.
Rinse, repeat, rinse repeat, rinse repeat.
Below, the latest roundup.
Ms. Marvel (2022) Teen angst, mass quantities of Muslim culture, multiverses and a heavy load of history on the wrenching, bloody India-Pakistan Partition.....way, way too much stuff to pile on top of a dopey superhero series. Slapdash, cartoonish superpowers .abysmal editing and cornball Disney-fying. An exhaustive chore to sit through even for the rabid fans. 1 star(*)
Moon Knight (2022) Oscar Issac throws himself fully into a double role, to the point where I couldn't help wishing that talent wasn't wasted on this overly, confounding, pretentious mish-mash of theology, alternate timelines and Halloween Shop costume-ery. Did love the Hippo goddess, though....she's the one who deserves a series. 1 star(*) and that's for the Hippo.
She-Hulk Attorney At Law (2022) We can only weigh in on the first episode. Jokey and meta to the max. Tatiana Maslany workin' even harder than when she played 10,000 clones in 'Orphan Black'. Hulk-ified Tatiana and Hulk-ified Mark Ruffalo spend the required amount of time hurling each other across football length distances. Heartbreaking dramatic moment: one of their roughhouses demolishes Mark's self contructed Tiki Bar. We wept for him. 1 star(*)
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