Just came back from seeing it so excuse the rambling. Kind of wish I hadn't gone this week, theatre was full of annoying teenagers cause of March Break.
Anyway, I'm going to start by saying I generally dislike Carol Danvers as a character in the comics. She's extremely dull, her backstory is stupidly convoluted, and she feels entirely manufactured in what Marvel Comics has been doing with her. I did not have any faith in this movie going in...but I really enjoyed what Marvel Studios and Larson did with the character. Her backstory is alot simpler, Larson is charming, and her quest to find her sense of identity was interesting which sort of in a meta way feels like a reference to how Marvel has been treating her in the comics. They really managed to make something good. So hey, maybe Marvel can do miracles.
Anyway, things I liked:
* As far as origin stories go, this was pretty solid. I liked them telling it out of order, with her finding out her origin alongside the audience.
* Carol and Fury's rapport was great.
* The reveal that the Skrulls were innocent was great, and I especially like that the Kree were the villains cause they've always sucked.
* Alot of the fight scenes were kind of by the numbers but I liked the "I'm just a Girl" sequence alot
* The explanation for why Carol has been gone for nearly 3 decades seemed solid too me and pretty noble.
Things I disliked but are mostly nitpicks:
* Coulson really didnt need to be in the movie, seemed pretty tacked on.
* Would have liked to have seen more of Hala, there's barely any cosmic stuff
* The 90s references were pretty eyeroll worthy
* I didn't like the reveal of her powers coming from the Tesseract. I just really dislike tying everything to the Infinity Stones.
* The Avengers name did not need a freaking origin. This is bordering on the sillieness in Solo.
* Also really dislike the cat stuff, especially straight ripping a gag from Guardians of the Galaxy. Wish I hadn't sat through the credits cause man what a letdown that was.
Anyway, overall I enjoyed it. As far as Marvel origin movies go, it's around the middle probably? Definitely better than Ant-Man, Thor, and Doctor Strange. Probably as good as The First Avenger.
I'm wondering how they'll deal with Maria and Monica, and how the latter will get powers.