But there’s no real magic, Marvel or otherwise, happening here. If Eternals had merely been an enjoyable ensemble one-off-an Ocean’s Eleven or Knives Out of the MCU’s very own!-that could have been delightful. Instead, it feels like a well-shot but rather densely packed educational film on some other comic universe, one filled with off-brand heroes and the usual array of power sets. Instead, it just kinda … occupies time? Oh, plenty of things happen, but, weighed down by 11 or so narrative arcs of mostly “bland new” superheroes-creator Jack Kirby’s signature style and energy is mostly absent-while also dutifully doling out a millennia-spanning, massively predictable larger plot, Eternals never really feels that connected to the greater MCU. In fact, it doesn’t really frustrate at all. Here’s our ranking of every movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, worst to best:Ĭhloé Zhao’s Eternals is not a film that frustrates because it misses an obvious target, plunges down the wrong path or even mangles the source material. There will be plenty of bad superhero films in the future-no genre is immune to that-but meanwhile, I’m going to enjoy this particular Golden Age. With all due respect to those whose profess genre fatigue at the prospect of 3-4 comic book films a year, I’m not tired one whit. The mere fact this robust collage is now possible stirs within me a sense of joy and awe at the achievement that’s hard to explain to folks who didn’t spend the ’70s and ’80s being forced to accept that the limitations of studio imagination and, to be fair, CGI were preventing the characters who came to life in the pages I devoured from coming to life on the Big Screen.
As I sat awaiting the first scenes from Black Panther, I was struck by how amazing it is that the opening animation to all MCU films, which was once a flipping of pages showing scenes from Marvel comics-usually aligned to match whichever character the film was featuring-was now made up of pictures of the actual movie characters themselves.
Mild snark aside, it has been an incredible run for this particular Disney-owned billion-dollar movie machine. After 13 years and 26 films, it’s time to participate in the most hallowed of internet traditions and rank us some Marvel Cinematic Universe offerings!
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