{"id":98697,"date":"2023-11-10T20:15:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T20:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/the-marvels-hits-the-big-screen-to-mixed-reviews"},"modified":"2023-11-10T20:59:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T20:59:43","slug":"the-marvels-hits-the-big-screen-to-mixed-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/the-marvels-hits-the-big-screen-to-mixed-reviews","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Marvels&#8221; hits the big screen to mixed reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. <\/strong><\/span><b>It\u2019s women to the rescue in Marvel Cinematic Universe\u2019s latest film, \u201cThe Marvels\u201d, which opened in most countries around the world on Wednesday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In this sequel to the 2019 production, \u201cCaptain Marvel\u201d, the superhero teams up with a superfan and an astronaut to battle evil.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s director, Nia DaCosta, says she\u2019s glad she could avoid the cliched characteristics of strong women on screen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I saw how excited they were to do it, I was like, oh, I&#8217;m like going to be in good hands with trying to bring these three women &#8211; four women with Zawe, the villain, to screen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;re all so different and we didn&#8217;t have to do any like fake, you know, girl boss thing, it was just like, let&#8217;s just let them be people who have superpowers and beat each other up,\u201d DaCosta said.<\/p>\n<p>Brie Larson reprises her role as Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers, who is forced to work with superfan, Kamala Khan (played by Imam Vellani) and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris), when their powers get entangled.<\/p>\n<p>DaCosta said she believes \u201cThe Marvels\u201d stands out from other films in the franchise, but is still very much in keeping with what people love about them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Marvel films have their own and unique tone that was really important to me, to have a tone. 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