Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors

When I first saw the promo for this film airing on the Disney Channel, I was excited. It seemed to have a fresh perspective on the young heroes trope, and overall looked decent. I watched this film recently on Disney XD and from what I've seen, it was quite underwhelming. The story, tone, and pacing weren't too bad, the show kind of looks fine, and the overall feel is somewhat refreshing. The problem? The characters are a bit dull and leave little impact and the story of a young team fighting for justice just feels rehashed and done before. It's almost like Disney/Marvel's take on Teen Titans or Young Justice, but not in a refreshing, unique way, more like in a paint-by-the-numbers, rehash, seen-there-been-there kind of way. While I don't think this film is the absolute worst nor amongst the worst of Marvel, it certainly wasn't one I liked. I wanted to like this movie, but all the way I felt myself yawning and pretty disappointed. I wanted to see more of Spider Gwen like how we did in Marvel Rising: Initiation, a predecessor to this film. However, this film isn't the best, but it isn't completely terrible, it's just a rehashed, average film that's been done before and in better ways. I really wanted to like this one, but by trying to be too much at once, and not adding its own spin on a trope that's been done so many times before, it becomes a below-average experience to watch. I do applaud the team for changing up the art style a bit and giving us something to work with, however, it still gets a score of 5.6/10 (average). It looks like a promising Marvel film, but turns out to be yet another average TV film from Disney and Marvel Entertainment.

I believe you can do better than this Disney/Marvel. I still have faith in you.

~~legofan~~

I am most certainly biased, coming from the excellent Ms Marvel and Squirrel Girl comics. But I found an interesting movie about passioned heroes wanting to do their best. Sometimes I don't need more than that. With all the universe ending drama llamas going on, sometimes I just want to see a Squirrel, a Girl and a Squirrel girl do some awesome heroics and inspire a team of new heroes. This movie is not that well animated though so if that will bother you just count my rating a couple of steps lower. I tolerate more in a movie that makes me feel good afterwards.

This is a surprisingly decent film. I'm equally surprised by the number of downvotes here. What, not enough sex, language and gore for the mainstream? Or were some folks totally unaware they were dialing into a cartoon-based movie?

This has a good story, good characters, an actual lesson, and was an enjoyable watch. Yes parts of it jumped the shark a bit; welcome to the realm of super-heroes. That tends to happen a lot in this field.

After the recent plethora of cringe-worthy superhero movies full of ultra-violence and character assassination (Batman, Superman, X-Men, etc etc) it was refreshing to watch a film that brought this genre back to its basic values: ordinary people that suddenly have power and aren't sure what to do with it.

The storyline never slumps. It's never "totally ridiculous". Basic plot holds up. The individual characters are actually well-formed and thought out. I would have liked to see Squirrel Girl given a little more "awesome" (since she at one time managed to take out THANOS) but she's just getting started in this one.

The writers very well got the ideas across of: Don't abuse your powers just because you can... don't judge a book by its cover... don't judge too hastily... give people a chance to redeem themselves. I'll take that kind of content over hyper-action and violence any day. Not that there wasn't plenty of action and violence in this; it was just subdued compared to the general media these days.

I am not a big fan of "Saturday morning cartoon" type fare. But this one did well enough to earn a solid 6 stars in my book (would have been 7 if the animation had been a bit better). Well worth the watch, and a good morality flick. Brought back the days when comics were less gratuitous, less violent, and had far better stories. Overall I think a decent effort.

I'm showing my age here, but I'm also coming from a long history of loving Marvel toons. Synthetic music with digital instruments gives me headaches. It's so much commercialized content that 'Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors' becomes a perverbial shaking of the keys in front of a baby's face. It's flashy bright colors set to excess noise; if this were Japan you'd expect to read about the hundreds of cases of children going into seizures (Much like California's theater warning for 'The Incredibles 2'). It was as uncomfortable to watch as a ShamWow commercial, "HEY I'M YELLING REALLY LOUDLY SO YOU'LL LOOK UP AT THE TV!!!"

Secondly, just at a glimpse I couldn't help but notice the body transformation of Squirrel Girl. What was the point of giving her birthing hips? The Squirrel Girl I remember had a tiny frame which gave her action scenes against bigger villains a lop-sided battle that you couldn't help but cheer for her to win. People tend to root for the underdog, not the guy big enough to lift grown men off their feet. It came across like she was the bully in at least one scenario.

There wasn't much of a story here. It's basically hero-worship of older Marvel characters and living up to be just like them. It takes away from the individuality of the new characters origin stories. I saw this as one long movie edited from the shorts that wemade available. Maybe the idea was to get all of this information in small doses? I don't know. My experience was tiring. I didn't finish watching because there wasn't much there for me to care about. No mystery, no central element, and all commercial.

Like if it was just about Squirrel Girl and Ms Marvel it would've been great. Seems like all of the male characters lacked character or dimension. The confrontation that happens in the story feels like it's written by a couple of teenagers with no veteran experience. But beginning was great!