RESULTS: Here's How You, ComicBookMovie.com's Readers, Rated THE MARVELS!

RESULTS: Here's How You, ComicBookMovie.com's Readers, Rated THE MARVELS!

The Marvels didn't quite manage to take off at the box office this past weekend, but after asking you to chime in and share your star ratings for the Captain Marvel sequel, the results are finally in...

By JoshWilding - Nov 16, 2023 12:11 PM EST
Filed Under: The Marvels

The Marvels has, for the most part, crashed and burned in theaters. Whether you loved everything about Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, and Photon's team-up or it left you feeling cold, the numbers speak for themselves. 

Some will argue that it's a shame, while others are already taking great delight in an opening weekend they believe sends a strong message to Marvel Studios about the Multiverse Saga's quality. Still, with 62% on Rotten Tomatoes, the Captain Marvel sequel has, at least, avoided the dreaded green splat.

On Saturday, we asked you to chime in with your thoughts and to rate the latest MCU blockbuster. Today, it's time to share the results!

31.83% of you awarded The Marvels a healthy ⭐⭐⭐⭐, a rating which lines up with the movie's Audience Score of 84% on Rotten Tomatoes. 19.05% went with ⭐⭐⭐, but rather troublingly for Marvel Studios, a whopping 16.92% said, "I haven't watched it/don't plan on watching."

That's a clear indication something needs to be done to make these movies feel like must-see events again!

Finally, 14.2% chose ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 11.12% went with the lowest score of ⭐, and 6.86% picked ⭐⭐. These results make for interesting reading, that's for sure, and all signs point to most fans having had a good time with The Marvels

"Proof that a 90-minute blockbuster can soar," we said in our review"The Marvels is bolstered by three terrific leads and might just be the most fun you’ll have at the theater this year, even if it’s not necessarily destined to be remembered as a mighty Marvel classic."

That was our take, and as you'll likely recall, it ended by awarding the movie ⭐⭐⭐⭐. Now, it seems the majority of you agreed! As always, though, feel free to head to the comments section below to share your opinions. 

In The Marvels, Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe.

When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol’s estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team up and learn to work in concert to save the universe as "The Marvels."

The movie stars Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Samuel L. Jackson, Zawe Ashton and Park Seo-joon.

The Marvels is now playing in theaters.

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willyburz
willyburz - 11/16/2023, 12:18 PM
I thought is was a damn good popcorn action flick that felt deeper from wathing wandavision and miss marvel. I enjoyed the hell out of it, my only gripe was it was super fast paced and could have done some breathing here and there with more world building. I would also honestly say I'd go again. Fun movie and entertaining. 3 out of 5 for me.
Tonic24k
Tonic24k - 11/16/2023, 12:26 PM
@willyburz - This is pretty spot on. Although the fast pace didn't bother me. I'd actually have to watch it a second time to pinpoint my gripes. I know they're there, I just can't really recall anything that irked me. I thought the flerken scene was going to be cringe, but then it played out hilariously; well executed.

I think because the movie ended up just being like having a good pizza. Nothing exceedingly remarkable but also nothing to complain about. Had my za and my beer and I'm a happy camper having a good time.
AliX
AliX - 11/16/2023, 12:48 PM
@willyburz - Thats exactly how I feel about it.
The1st
The1st - 11/16/2023, 1:03 PM
@willyburz - I wonder if the honest trailer will be better than the film though 🤔
Vigor
Vigor - 11/16/2023, 1:14 PM
@Tonic24k - I had 2 voodoo rangers during the brisk run time. Didn't even Have to miss anything to pee thanks to the fast run time
Pizza analogy I'd a good one. I just really enjoyed the movie. It felt like it came from an experienced movie director and it knew what it wanted to be. It's no dark knight. It's no winter soldier. It's a fun time at the movies, similar to Iron man 1 on the fun factor
Scarilian
Scarilian - 11/16/2023, 2:33 PM
This entire chat is like peering into another reality.

Are people in extreme denial or do they really not notice the movie is fundamentally broken in every scene?

It's better than the first film in that its not insulting its audience and you actually have a bit of a personality for Carol this time around, but it's barely even a movie as opposed to a collection of scenes. If you listen to any of the dialogue you'll realize that nothing follows. Characters change costumes when they shouldn't. Characters state they don't know something and then the next line they know exactly where to go.

The entire film is like you skipped Captain Marvel 2. It also character assassinates Carol Danvers turning her into someone who created a Civil War and despite knowing the damage to the planet spent 30 years doing nothing.

If you are ignoring all that and just going by individual scenes, you don't really have many 'popcorn moments' you get the Flerkins being cute/horrific and you have some

I saw it in 3D 4DX and even then I don't think you can find it enjoyable, other than the dark comedy of the Flerkin scene where our 'heroes' end up forcing people to be eaten - despite the previous movie establishing that people do get devoured by the Flerkins.
DarkeyeZ
DarkeyeZ - 11/16/2023, 3:29 PM
@Scarilian - The problem is people like you. The fact that you cannot wrap your head around people having opinions that differ from yours is crazy. You think the movie is broken? ok, that doesn't mean that it is. that's just your opinion. when you realize that you are just a random person giving your own opinion online rather than stating facts, things will become more clear for you.
I liked the movie. some people didn't. which is fine. the only thing I clown in regards to the movie are the many losers hating on it without seeing it. someone on Facebook was at least truthful and said that they wouldn't see it because it is female lead and filled with minorities, while others hide behind the word "woke".
dragon316
dragon316 - 11/16/2023, 3:52 PM
@Tonic24k - didn’t like flerken scene a lot I didn’t cringe some of it was little entertaining
kamarova
kamarova - 11/16/2023, 4:47 PM
@DarkeyeZ - you're confusing stating facts with having an opinion... If, for example, actions in a movie don't have any logical sense (like switching powers only when it's convenient to the plot, without any explanation), that's a fact. And sometines opinions will help us also discover and understand the facts. Reality is not defined by your feelings. If something's black it is black, my "opinion" that it's white, would be just plain stupid, you kknow? It's nothing wrong to have fun watching objectively bad movie.
WarMonkey
WarMonkey - 11/17/2023, 6:44 AM
@Scarilian - I agree with you 100%. I am a huge fan of the Bayformer's movies. I even love the Marky Mark ones and The Last Knight I have seen countless times. 1st movie is great but the rest are not well made from a story or character perspective. But the individual scenes in it are amazing to watch imo, as in they are the definition of "popcorn movies". I'll never defend those movies or attack others for their opinions of it. Like you said there wasn't anything like that in The Marvels besides goofy scenes and terribly silly fight scenes that look like old video games. And the more you dig into the plot and dialogue it falls apart so fast to a nonsensical level so defending it says more about the defender than the film. Also, Michael Bay never used the plot for Spaceballs in his movies.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 11/18/2023, 3:52 PM
@DarkeyeZ -
Nope, it's just broken. You can enjoy the film, but being ignorant of its factual flaws does not make them disappear. The writing is not consistent between scenes, the directing is a mess.

It feels like you've missed Captain Marvel 2 where she would have went down a darker path getting revenge on the Kree Homeworld and fighting Ronan as was set-up at the end of the first film (Leading credence to my idea that the movie was supposed to be set pre-GotG1)

Carol has no idea who is behind the disrupted 'jump network' and then the next time we cut back to her she suddenly knows it was Dar-Benn despite no new information getting relayed to her.

Kamala will get teleported wearing her costume and then fall from space in her civilian costume. Monica will get teleported wearing her spacesuit without the spacesuit going with her. Carol knowing their powers are linked will fly into space to fight Dar-Benn despite knowing a teenage girl (Kamala) is linked and would either be swapped in atmosphere OR in space which would result in her death.

Kamala, Monica and Carol get linked because they are all connected to the jump network either by touching it or wearing a bangle... Dar-Benn was shown wearing the bangle at this time so should have been linked.

Captain Marvel's character is assassinated due to poor writing. She committed an attack on the Kree home-world that resulted in a galaxy spanning civil war that resulted in the destruction of the planets atmosphere, water and even somehow their sun... then she spent 30 years doing absolutely nothing to fix it. The film claims she never went back to Earth, which we know to be a lie, and that she was actively avoiding Monica because of her reputation somewhere that Monica would never encounter or know about. Singing World is attacked because Dar-Benn knows how deeply Carol cares about it... and Carol never goes back or even gets in contact to check if they survived after their water was stolen.

It's less offensive than the previous film as its not actively hating masculine roles, but it's still trying to be a female focused movie and to do that the only other male characters in the film, Nick Fury, is so incompetent that when his space station is in danger the panicked staff don't trust him and run around the station like headless chickens refusing to follow his plan.

"I liked the movie. some people didn't. which is fine."

It's fine if you like it, but it's a broken movie. I'm not sure how much was the director, writer or reshoots/delays and the runtime being cut from nearing 3hr 30m to 90m. The singing planet segment was supposed to be the entire second act of the film lasting around 45m-60m on its own for example.

@WarMonkey -
Yeah, if you enjoy 'popcorn movies' that's fine. I do find it weird people would view it as a 'popcorn movie' though, just does not have as much action, comedy, etc... that I thought people would want in a 'popcorn movie'.

It's odd to see so many people praising The Marvels as if nothing is wrong with it because they enjoyed it from a 'popcorn movie' perspective. People can enjoy badly handled films or scenes of badly handled films without trying to praise them as being good.

I still have aspects of the Transformers live action franchise I enjoy and watch over, but like you, I am aware the quality of those films is not good from a writing, narrative or directing perspective.
WarMonkey
WarMonkey - 11/19/2023, 6:41 AM
@Scarilian - "1st movie is great but the rest are not well made from a story or character perspective" is what I said so your 1st three sentences are factually incorrect.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 11/19/2023, 1:15 PM
@WarMonkey -
1st movie had a lot of racism, sexism, etc...

While I like the idea of Sam and his car having a bond it's kinda fighting against a fairly generic story-line of him trying to 'win the girl'. It's something that helps tie the film together, but the pacing is awkward.

You also have a lot of loose ends, Barricade gets beaten and implied he's repairing and then he never shows up again. Frenzy can get dismantled and survive but none of the other Transformers can? The Allspark gives life to a bunch of objects and machines and the movie forgets about it. You have the subplot involving the hackers that don't really do anything important in the movie.

I enjoy the film for what it is, but I wouldn't call it great personally.
WarMonkey
WarMonkey - 11/19/2023, 7:34 PM
@Scarilian - I addressed that too above with " I'll never defend those movies or attack others for their opinions of it."
NGFB
NGFB - 11/16/2023, 12:18 PM
It was entertaining. That's all I ask for. And more white tank top scenes with Brie Larson. That too.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 11/16/2023, 12:18 PM
I hope it gets a sequel
cubrn
cubrn - 11/16/2023, 12:19 PM
Just saw it a second time and cannot see why it gets the hate it does. I liked it even better on second viewing
Tonic24k
Tonic24k - 11/16/2023, 12:21 PM
@cubrn - Because most of the people hating on it haven't even seen it. It was an excellent movie. Easily 3 or 4 out of 5.
OleBobbyTiger
OleBobbyTiger - 11/16/2023, 1:27 PM
@Tonic24k - That tracks. Statistically speaking they need to weight the poll to get a true measure of where people stand.

16.92% of users haven't seen it, so they can't rank it on a star level.

Of those who have approx. 78% give it an above average (3 stars or higher) rating. That tracks pretty close with the 84% RT audience rating. So filter out the haters and it sounds like a decent movie, even if not incredible.

We'll see it soon. Hard to schedule it in with a 2 year old.
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/16/2023, 12:20 PM
16.92% I haven't watched it/Don't plan on watching

That's me baby.

Tonic24k
Tonic24k - 11/16/2023, 12:21 PM
@marvel72 - Which equates to 16.92% not having a valid opinion on the movie.
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/16/2023, 12:38 PM
@Tonic24k - Looks shit from the trailers and clips, the reviews are pretty much saying the movie is shit.

Good chance that movie is shit.
Remember if you support shit like this Marvel will think this is what people want and believe me it's not.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 11/16/2023, 12:48 PM
@Tonic24k - I mean if 90% of Americans not interested/don't plan on watching that could mean over 300,000,000 in the US alone are/do so never got why anyone ever feels the need to say they are not interested or didn't watch cos kinda meaningless to how good/bad and or sales end of the day.

We all like differing things and have differing rankings ultimately and someone mostly into serious high quality drama will oft want a fun popcorn flick from time to time :D
mountainman
mountainman - 11/16/2023, 12:49 PM
@Tonic24k - “I don’t want to see it” is a valid opinion. One shared by more people than for any other MCU movie ever.
Spike101
Spike101 - 11/16/2023, 12:58 PM
@marvel72 - Agreed. It’s a complete Disney teen romp com shite fest and they shouldn’t be given the idea it good as they’ll just make more the same. It’s nothing to do with the cast or characters or even the storyline to a lesser extent, and it’s all to do with the creative team and the style in which it’s written in and tye tone they have set.
OleBobbyTiger
OleBobbyTiger - 11/16/2023, 1:03 PM
@mountainman - Don't make me call you a hater again.


mountainman
mountainman - 11/16/2023, 1:42 PM
@RoberTiger - I can’t make you do anything 😉
OleBobbyTiger
OleBobbyTiger - 11/16/2023, 3:19 PM
@mountainman - Fair.
DarkeyeZ
DarkeyeZ - 11/16/2023, 3:21 PM
@mountainman - "I don't want to see it" is not a valid gauge of the movies quality, it is only a valid gauge for the movies marketing.
You can't have a valid opinion on a movie you haven't seen. So anyone who chose that option should be removed from the poll.
People that saw the movie and did not like it have a valid opinion, those that hate the movie but didn't see it are just sheep jumping on the hate train
Origame
Origame - 11/16/2023, 3:45 PM
@DarkeyeZ - aaaand it's that logic alone which is why this score is so high, despite this being the biggest flop in the history of the mcu (and arguably all of the genre).
mountainman
mountainman - 11/16/2023, 4:23 PM
@DarkeyeZ - I’ve never said that the movie is bad. I’ve said it doesn’t look interesting to me. That is a valid opinion for someone that hasn’t seen it.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 11/16/2023, 12:20 PM
RIP Roger Kastel. Jaws poster, Empire Strikes back poster......dude was a straight up auteur. He will be missed. posters suck now.
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/16/2023, 12:39 PM
@McMurdo - R.I.P Roger thank you so much.

I miss the hardwork people use to put in for movie posters.
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