The latest big-budget Marvel blockbuster to hit cinemas has been utterly annihilated by critics, with box office projections forecasting a record low.
Captain Marvel , a k a Carol Danvers, is a too-powerful alien with roughly a third of the personality of Mr. Spock. Kamala Khan , a k a Ms. Marvel, is a hyperactive Jersey City teen and nascent superhero who’s cloyingly obsessed with the Captain. And Monica Rambeau appeared as a kid in “Captain Marvel,” which was set in 1995, but got powers as an adult in “WandaVision.
Complicating the situation more, each hero has a quantum band of her own that causes the trio to swap places at random. One second, Captain Marvel is in outer space, and the next she’s in New Jersey. These Scott Bakula leaps are called “jump points” that are part of a “teleportation network” in “space-time.” Blah blah blah.