Captain Marvel Reviews: 11 Early Reactions You Must See

3. She's A Bad-Ass

Here's the thing you need to know if you've just rewatched Avengers: Infinity War and are currently having nightmares about how the Avengers can ever hope to undo what Thanos has done... Captain Marvel is the real deal.

The Russos have already said that they're going to write in a means to limit her powers initially (so as to preserve the threat of the story), but in her own movie, Marvel is very obviously being set out as a total badass.

And alongside the feminist messages in there, you can't underplay just how important that is going to be to a whole new generation of Marvel fans: not just for the company's bottom line but for those looking for representation. If the film manages to offer to young girls what Black Panther did to the painfully under-represented black community in superhero movies, it's on to a major winner: