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The Marvels movie review

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It has been a while since I have visited the cinema.. Covid put a halt to my days of watching a movie with hundreds of others in a confined space. Somehow it felt unnerving to do so.  So my viewing diet has been a series of 4k discs, streaming platforms or binging on an aeroplane.  However some movies are meant for the big screen and the comic book genre is definitely one of them. An opportunity came up to watch The Marvels came and I guess it was as apt as any to return to the cinema, especially since dinner was also thrown in.  The recent MCU franchise has been a treat, right up to the last Spiderman outing, No Way Home, but since then, there have been a couple of damp squibs and I did wonder if this would suffer the same fate. Sadly, I have to say that The Marvels is not up to the same standard that brought in the crowds for the The Avengers and other earlier outings.  There is still the action, the technical marvel (pun intended), some smattering of humor, but what made the MCU sup