I am a huge fan of the actress who plays Ghost, after her role(s) in the super-fun Sci-Fi series Killjoys, and I like pretty much everyone else on the team (some more than others), so I was totally the target audience for this movie. I loved how they just explicitly pointed out the teams limitations 'So what, none of us can fly, we just all shoot and punch' says Yelena, at one point, and, what a perfect ending, the resolution is something they can't shoot or punch their way out of, these very damaged people have to help someone *else* with his damage. Very clever.
It *could* have been a 'Marvel Suicide Squad' movie with gratuitous violence being the solution to every problem, but the writers actually took it somewhere new.
Wyatt Russell was amazing as John Walker in F&tWS, so it was cool to see him back. I've always liked Bucky. Yelena was cool in Black Widow, *amazing* in Hawkeye, and cool again in this. Red Guardian was, comic relief, mostly, but in a group this grim and serious and dark, he was kind of needed, I think. And certainly proves the lie that Marvel makes 'everyone too funny,' since he was the only one in the movie with an (absurd) sense of humor.
I expected to loathe Bob as much as his comic book interpretation, and yet he was actually pretty compelling in this one, and I was pleasantly surprised.
Did kind of want a saving throw for the misfire that was Taskmaster, but, eh, clearly they decided to just abandon that attempt. (Which *I* liked fine, but apparently he has fans, and they were pissed...)
And, the Marvels. Yes, that flerkin scene was hilarious. Not worth two hours of my life, tho. The only thing that could have saved that movie for me, is if that Skrull world they visited had a teen Skrull prince they had to rescue, who was a backdoor introduction to Teddy Altman/Hulkling, for the not-to-be-scheduled until the actors are in their 40s, 'Young' Avengers...
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