 This may come as a shock to none of you but I wasn't eagerly anticipating Ms. Marvel to hit Disney Plus because I'm sexist and racist. Now in all reality it's because I'm feeling a little burnt out in Marvel properties in general but since Ms. Marvel is obviously geared towards younger audiences much more family-based I thought I'll watch this with mine and we'll see how it does. This show is the definition of content to me it's it's there it's watchable it's not doing anything amazing but it's also not doing anything insulting. Our superhero this time is a high schooler named Kamala Khan and she's a massive fan of Captain Marvel which makes her incredibly unique because she's literally the only person who's a fan of Captain Marvel. She's got her posters she's dedicated a costume to her she has an entire YouTube channel that's nothing but how great Captain Marvel is. Brie Larson's a smoke show to be sure but that character we got to do better with her hopefully the sequel does. That said the show itself is pretty fun it's got a good vibe to it a nice energy it feels like Spider-Man homecoming on the small screen. It also kind of reminded me of Scott Pilgrim and no it's not near that level of amazing not even close but the way that it presents certain things like text bubbles when someone's on their phone or how it graffitis on the side of the wall and animates it there's lots of playful stuff going on. The effects on the show definitely do feel downgraded you have that TV show budget and when she finally does start to use those powers which are pretty wildly different from the character I'm familiar with from that stupid Marvel video game Avengers and I would imagine the comic book where she's more of a Reed Richards stretch Armstrong type thing. Here she has kind of quasi Captain Marvel powers but it's isolated to at least for now her hands that can stretch. I imagine she can do other things but it's all done through a power amulet she conveniently got from her grandmother's belongings. This whole plot right now is kind of silly and childish I'm hoping that that starts to take shape as the show progresses because right now it's just a convenient oh I found this and it happens to give me amazing superpowers. Don't flesh it out this is only the first episode the family and I liked it we'll watch more we'll see where this roller coaster goes the only big standout as far as kind of like stupid shit goes is there is a moment towards the end where she's at Avenger Con which is the first and the big deal for this character. She uses the ability accidentally which knocks a giant ant man head into a pool which becomes a giant Indiana Jones style bowling ball. The physics on this thing are completely insane it doesn't add up I mean I'm not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination but the momentum that thing somehow conjured out of nowhere just didn't stack up it didn't film correctly so this thing's just going blows through a wall which snaps a cable which launches Thor's hammer into the hot cool girl of the school and she goes flying against the wall looked like he killed her I don't know if that was supposed to be played for laughs or what but that thing freaking wrecked her she dropped like a bag of dirt then the audience was a wide range of emotions between flabbergasted shell shocked and just kind of loving it all around thought maybe it was part of the performance so that was a very weird scene how it was shot and filmed but for the most part I really do dig the the style they're going with here it's very youthful very energetic definitely very much speaking to me as a as a middle-aged guy I'm really getting that feeling characters are all likable I really enjoy Kamala's family they seem fun and like they're gonna get into some hijinks together kind of reminds me of Sam Whitwicky's parents from those critically acclaimed Transformers films hey you know what they're they're dumb but they get the job done we had the weekend to kick things off I don't think that song was appropriately used I'm gonna be honest when it was in the trailers it worked a lot better when they used it at the beginning of the show it didn't fit the template didn't fit the mold that song deserved better they should have saved it for a bigger moment maybe they'll bring it back but that was really the only thing that kind of irked me about the episode otherwise as far as Disney plus shows go this is one of the better ones I've seen like I said family's ready for more I'd like to hear from you though did this do anything for you are you like me where you watched it it's content and that's it we I don't need to see anymore like I'm not gonna lose any sleep if this show is instantly canceled so I guess maybe that says that it's it's not that special but at the same time you know family always could use something to watch and this this seems to do the job all right let me know like the video if you had a good time think about subscribing as I post tons of movie and tv show related content each week hit that notification bell so these pop up in your feed and hopefully I'll see you stick around take care I do like how they try to kind of cover up the fact that captain marvel is just never around when it's convenient there's kind of a throwaway line where Kamala says yeah I mean she has other things to do so she couldn't stick around to help fight Thanos the whole time what could have possibly been more important than half of the galaxy getting wiped out what was she doing she's changing batteries on some planet is she saving a cat from a tree on planet Gorbazorb like what the hell don't make excuses for captain marvel she she's beyond the pale right now she needs to make excuses okay I want to know what the hell she was doing with her time