The BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER Honest Trailer.

Honest trailers, thankfully, did not let their enjoyment of BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (and it was a good superhero flick) get in the way of calling out the various inconsistencies, flaws, and nigh-incessant (if often subtle) pimping of the next phase of the MCU. Which is nice. I was mildly worried that they’d feel bad about bringing any of that up.

#commissionearned

Moe Lane

PS: I stand by my earlier review: this is one of the saddest (as in sorrow and grief) superhero movies you will ever see.

My mini-review of BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER.

Short version: I suspect that Earth-2’s version of BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (the one starring a cancer-free Chadwick Boseman) isn’t nearly as good as this one. Instead, we get the movie where the director and writers of a popcorn superhero picture suddenly have to address themes like grief, anger, and loss. Lucky us. Continue reading My mini-review of BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER.

The BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER trailer.

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER has fighting, Namor, my personal favorite character from the first movie (M’Baku) – and an almost tangible sense of sorrow for the loss of Chadwick Boseman, who was a genuinely good-hearted man and actor who was taken from us too, too soon. Everybody in that film misses him, and I don’t think they’re going to pretend otherwise. I think it was very smart that they didn’t recast the role.