The movie vacillates wildly between comedy, drama, tragedy, and space opera - hell, it even flirted with being a musical. What it was meant to be was a money-making product pumped out by Disney that somehow precisely followed in the rules laid out by 32 previous Marvel movies - and yet still quirky and unique. It's no more successful than that genesis suggests. Which is unfortunate, as they've lined up a fairly good cast (notably Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, and Iman Vellani as the three Marvels).

A sequel to "Captain Marvel," the primary plot driver is the new Kree leader Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton) using a new power-up ("one of the two legendary Quantum Bands") to restore the atmosphere of the planet Hala ... while incidentally destroying a world that the Skrull had taken refuge on. This act also "entangles" the three Marvels (Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel) ... although if you haven't seen the TV mini-series "WandaVision" and "Ms. Marvel" you'll be somewhat in the dark about two out of the three of them. By "entangle," we mean that whenever they use their powers, they swap places with each other. Or at least it happens when it's cinematically convenient. And as mentioned, the tone of the movie is all over the map - now comedic, now tragedy, 5-10 minutes of musical (no joke), a lot of space opera, and some of it's played for drama.

This isn't as bad as "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" which defined a new low point for the Marvel cinematic universe (although they tried with "The Eternals" too), so there's that. I was going to say "I don't know why I don't stop watching," but the truth is I do know: I love superheroes. And those unburdened by the MCU history ("Project: Power" and "How I Became a Superhero") are sometimes quite good.