By adding Spider-Man to Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sony completely re-contextualizes the character and is able to bring Marvel’s most definitive superhero back to relevance after a decade in pop culture purgatory.
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Doctor Strange‘s many positive attributes are ultimately squandered in a disappointingly average outing that never rises above mediocrity due to its muted ambitions.
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For Marvel fans, Captain America: Civil War just about has it all: thought-provoking themes, eye-popping action sequences and a super-sized cast.
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With lower stakes and a lighter touch, Ant-Man is largely successful when it sticks to this approach (and somewhat less so when it doesn’t), adding more dimension and flavor — sometimes quite literally — to the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Age of Ultron is certainly a success (and an improvement on the first Avengers film), but the whole is less than the sum of its absurdly expensive parts.
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Guardians of the Galaxy expands the potential of the MCU pretty vastly, properly introducing not just the Infinity Stones and Thanos, but also a cast of characters and deep-space locations that greatly stretch the scope of what can be included in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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