Captain Marvel Website – Time Machine Back to the ’90s

Bring out your inline skates, your flannels, and your Walkman radios — Marvel’s new captain marvel website is a time machine back to the ’90s. And it’s filled with all the perfect little ’90s details you could ask for.

The site has the sort of cheesy web design you might remember from that era, with amateurish cut-out photos and spinning email symbols floating up and down the page. There’s also a “Spot the Skrull” game, where you try to identify whether an image is a friendly human or a shape-shifting alien; a guestbook, where you can leave comments before comment sections were a thing; and more.

But there’s one thing the site does that stands out. It breaks down user reviews of the movie by a strict gender binary, which is not something you often see on sites that feature Rotten Tomatoes scores, which are printed on Blu-ray and found on digital services like Vudu. It’s an interesting way to examine how much the film succeeds in achieving its female-empowerment goals.

The film, directed by It’s Kind of a Funny Story and Mississippi Grind helmers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, stars Oscar winner Brie Larson as Carol Danvers, who returns to Earth with no memory of her past. She is a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield, and in the real world, as she rediscovers her family and learns how to harness her incredible power. It’s a fun adventure movie that never gets bogged down by tedious dialogue or overt political themes, and it benefits from a great performance by Larson.