Some early reviews made me expect a 'feminist polemic', but it's not. There are a couple of gratuitous 'girl power' moments in the movie, but they aren't that jarring, and every Marvel movie has some moments where I go "What?!", so why should this one be different?
The performances are fine, and Larson and Jackson are quite good, especially together, and some of the moments called out as being 'feminist' by people critical of the movie can also be taken as integral to the character arc (which is mostly how I took them).
Some reviewers complain that it 'disrupts the MCU', and perhaps it does, but I can't keep that straight anyway, so I just take these movies one at a time - I actually liked the prequel aspects. Overall this movie is brainless fun: not quite as good as Winter Soldier (which is my favorite Marvel movie so far), but on a par with a lessor Iron Man.
The performances are fine, and Larson and Jackson are quite good, especially together, and some of the moments called out as being 'feminist' by people critical of the movie can also be taken as integral to the character arc (which is mostly how I took them).
Some reviewers complain that it 'disrupts the MCU', and perhaps it does, but I can't keep that straight anyway, so I just take these movies one at a time - I actually liked the prequel aspects. Overall this movie is brainless fun: not quite as good as Winter Soldier (which is my favorite Marvel movie so far), but on a par with a lessor Iron Man.