The Marvels trailer is giving me the team-up vibes of the first Avengers movie
Power-swapping shenanigans brings back the fun I’ve missed recently
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The first trailer forThe Marvels, the next MCU movie, is here – and it looks like it’s bringing exactly the kind of fun adventure the last few entries in the timeline have been missing. The follow-up toCaptainMarvellooks like a team-up movie that’s taking its cues from thefirstAvengersmovie, but with some added chaotic space farce.
The big question I had about this movie is how it would bring together the three ‘Marvel’-branded heroes without it coming across as ridiculous coincidence, and the trailer answers it: the film’s setup is that Carol Danvers' (Brie Larson), Kamala Khan’s (Iman Vellani), and Monica Rambeau’s (Teyonah Parris) powers are entangled, and when they use them, they swap places. This is evenmoreof a ridiculous coincidence than I expected, and I think that’s why it works for me – it leans so far into it, it comes out clean the other side.
Captain Marvel / Carol Danvers gained her powers from a mis-used Infinity Stone in, unsurprisingly,Captain Marvel; Monica Rambeau gained hers from Scarlet Witch’s weird reality field during the events ofWandaVision; and Kamala Khan gained hers from an alien bangle (and also, maybe, some kind of… mutation) duringMs Marvel. Check out our fullMCU timelinearticle for how to catch up, but those three are clearly the main stories you’ll want to know going into this movie, though I think you could skipWandaVision(Monica’s story is very minor in it overall, and can be summed up as: she gets powers).
The important thing is that the overall team-up feel here is the closest Marvel has come toThe Avengerssince, well,The Avengers. The thing about that movie is that it’s so much fun, and really embraces the different personalities of its heroes. Carol Danvers is one of the most powerful beings in the universe, Monica Rambeau is finding her feet with her new powers, and Kamala Khan is just happy to be here.
They can do different things, and their powers are going to interact in fun ways. They live in different ways, so we’re gonna get three different fish-out-of-water movies in one. Look at the scene where they’re battling each other and keep swapping places! It just looks fun.
And that’s kind of a relief after the MCU’s previously reliable fun franchise,Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, took a turn for the annoyingly epic and dark, and not exactly with glowing results.Black Panther: Wakanda Foreverwas also nonbarrel of laughs, though for much better reason.
This movie looks like it’s getting back to what made people get on board with the MCU in the first place – here’s hoping the movie bears it out, and takes a place among thebest Disney Plus movieswhen it arrives on streaming later.
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Matt is TechRadar’s Managing Editor for Entertainment, meaning he’s in charge of persuading our team of writers and reviewers to watch the latest TV shows and movies on gorgeous TVs and listen to fantastic speakers and headphones. It’s a tough task, as you can imagine. Matt has over a decade of experience in tech publishing, and previously ran the TV & audio coverage for our colleagues at T3.com, and before that he edited T3 magazine. During his career, he’s also contributed to places as varied as Creative Bloq, PC Gamer, PetsRadar, MacLife, and Edge. TV and movie nerdism is his speciality, and he goes to the cinema three times a week. He’s always happy to explain the virtues of Dolby Vision over a drink, but he might need to use props, like he’s explaining the offside rule.
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