![]() ![]() ![]() The new logo intro with Stan Lee's many cameos and finding the legendary comics writer reading the script to Mallrats earns a heartfelt smile along with a tear. Hounsou's cameo appearance follows Marvel's fondness for intertextual allusions as both a source of comedy and a means for affixing our heroes to a larger established universe, and for the most part, such in-joke references are clever enough to warrant a chuckle. But there is definitely more right outweighing the admittedly trifling wrong in this otherwise wildly entertaining prequel. It is also evidence of what is both right and wrong with this latest installment to the ever-expanding franchise. For those who have been paying attention to the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe and the various threads interconnecting the many storylines, seeing Djimon Hounsou's Korath the Pursuer in Captain Marvel is a dead giveaway of the plot's direction and unsurprising twists. ![]()
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