“Captain Marvel” is Marvel’s most recent film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was released on March 8, 2019, or National Women’s Day. “Captain Marvel” is a prequel to all the previous MCU movies, except for “Captain America: The First Avenger.” The film takes place in the year 1995, six years after Carol Danvers is in a horrific plane crash, from which she has no memory of.

Danvers joins the Star Force on the Kree homeworld, Hala. While on a mission to rescue one of their own, she gets kidnapped by a Skrull, a supposedly dangerous alien species. Danvers escapes, but ends up on Earth, where she and Nick Fury must stop the Skrulls before they can take over Earth.

When I went to watch “Captain Marvel,” I did not have high expectations for the film. I had heard so many bad things about this movie. One of these things was that lead actress Brie Larson’s acting was dull at times, but I enjoyed the film and Brie Larson’s acting nonetheless.

I enjoyed “Captain Marvel” and thought it was an amazing film, with amazing characters and an amazing story. There are many characters that I fell in love with. Talos, one of the Skrulls, is a character who I learned to love as the movie progressed. Talos is an amazing dynamic character, who at the beginning of this film I hated. “Captain Marvel” did an amazing job of changing this character to make him one of the most enjoyable and funny parts of this film. Another character who is an amazing dynamic character in this film is Commander Yon-Rogg. In the beginning of this film I was rooting for Yon-Rogg, but by the end of it I could not help but hope he failed in his plans.

This film also answered many questions I had for a very long time and connects so many things from previous Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. In “Captain Marvel,” we learn so many things about the past. We learn many things about Nick Fury that had been mysteries floating around since the first Avengers film. We learn how Nick Fury lost his eye and how he got ahold of the tesseract. It is even told how Nick Fury had his device to contact Captain Marvel that is shown in “Avengers: Infinity War.”

If this film did anything for me, it was make me much more excited to see “Avengers: Endgame.” This movie sets up so many things that will  make you excited to see Endgame and how “Captain Marvel” will play a key role in it.

In the end, I was left pleasantly surprised by “Captain Marvel.” I was left surprised about how amazing the film was, After hearing so many awful things about it I thought for sure it would be terrible, but I was proven completely wrong. This movie made me even more excited for “Avengers: Endgame” and left me happy about how it ended. I would definitely recommend this film for any superhero movie lover. It is an amazing film, with an amazing cast and it answers the biggest questions people had about the Marvel Cinematic Universe.