Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was great. I know I keep on saying how I rated the first Black Panther film way too high, but honestly I was caught up in so much of the personal hype regarding that film that I forget that the last battle scene was so not good. I also did not enjoy that they killed the villain but Marvel has gotten better at not letting every villain die at the end of their films. This one picks up six years after the blip and T'challa passes away. They don't show how which was very classy of them and I really did appreciate. So now the queen is trying to run Wakanda with people slowly trying to invade it to get some of their Vibranium. Meanwhile Shuri is upset that she was not able to save her brother so she is just burying herself in work.
Our new villain Namor shows up and he is awesome. This guy definitely got an upgrade from the comic books. They do a nice scene showing how hundreds of years ago his mother and their tribe were invaded and they escaped and were exposed to Vibranium themselves and when he was born he was half human half whatever they were being turned into that forced them to live under water. He is upset that T'challa exposed the world to more Vibranium so now different armies and countries are trying to mine it. He wants the country of Wakanda to help him take out the surface world so they'll stop but the queen isn't down with his plan. He pretty much lets her know if you don't help you'll be the first nation that we take out.
The action in this movie was better than the first film. The special effects were better. And most importantly the story was much better than the first film. It sucks that Chadwick Boseman could not continue this role because what I would have loved to have seen where he ended up with this next string of films that are coming out. But this film did a very good job of respecting his legacy of a character that he honestly did not get to portray too much but left such a huge impact on. I have watched this movie and multiple reaction videos of it and just love the introductions of so many new characters and time together other series with the MCU films. We now have Namor as well as Ironheart. Ironheart is going to be a very interesting character in her upcoming series and they are doing a lot to build up these Marvel teens but sadly I have disliked most of them. They all seem to behave the same so I was very happy that Ironheart was very different than the rest of them. I'll probably end up watching this movie a few more times.
Letitia Wright as Shuri/Black Panther
Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia
Danai Gurira as Okoye
Winston Duke as M'Baku
Florence Kasumba as Ayo
Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams
Michaela Coel as Aneka
Mabel Cadena as Namora
Tenoch Huerta Mejía as Namor
Martin Freeman as Everett K. Ross
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
Angela Bassett as Ramonda
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