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Visually pleasing. Exciting choreography. Good narrative flow, breezy banter. But the cookie-cutter critiques are accurate overall, not that it makes it bad, just a limitation of the entire notion of superhero blockbusters.
The 'men won't let you train, but we will, and you'll be better than all of them' is so overplayed at this point. 'You'll summon the elements and kick their asses with a swirl of effing leaves?' Gah, blah. Bwana had a better plan for destruction using leaves when he left an engine block in a pile on the street.
Awkwafina was fine. It was comic relief, and as retreaded as the grrlpowa stuff above. But it's just a necessity of the narrative form, and she did an adequate, distinctive, job of it.
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We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics - E.W.
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