Spoiler free review of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. It is everything it should be and everything fans want it to be. Director Ryan Coogler understands the genre, the audience, and the characters and as a result, the movie delivers on every level. 1/
Chadwick Boseman is honored appropriately and we take the journey with his family, friends, and to remember him while trying to find a way forward. 2/
Letiticia Write, Angela Bassett (who should be our Queen), Tenoch Huerta, Lupita N'yong'o, Danai Gurira, Mabel Cadena, Dominque Thorne, and Winston Duke.. matched each other's ability to carry every scene.
Tenoch as Namor delivers the kind of performance the MCU always needs and there's no way he won't be *thee next marvel star of stars.
The culture and civilization of Namor / N'amor is as striking as Wakanda and beautifully imagined -from origin to its modern iteration that rivals the land-based Wakanda.
The action is fantastic and the reasons make sense even if as viewers you don't want it to happen - this is unique to the genre but it not only works, but it takes us to uncomfortable and complex emotions because we want there to be other options.
The team also honors women who are actualized and fully in charge of who they are, what they do, and what the do not do. I think Wakanda in particular goes deep in this area - beyond wonderful warrior women, and into intellectual diplomats, counselors, parents, friends.
Watching it I felt tense, nervous, excited, angry, sad, resigned, and full. They deliver it all.
I won't speak for Indigenous Peoples on the depiction of Namor & his people, but I believe viewers will feel similar emotions to how Black people felt seeing Wakanda & its civilization on screen. It resonates and my audience loved it and there was oh's and ah's as it was revealed
Go see it. It is wonderful and you will love it. From the pre-opening to the very end. If there are kids in your theatre they will be excited and make noise and that's pretty cool. There are big scenes and small and they connect when they should and how they should.
If you loved the first, you'll love this as much if not more because we get two dynamic cultures to dive into.
I may write another review after all the details are out and I've had a chance to process more of what it made me see, think, and feel.
I may write another review after all the details are out and I've had a chance to process more of what it made me see, think, and feel.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ends Phase 4 and it is fitting to revisit the land, the people, and loves, loss, and future of the indefatigable Wakandans.
Go ahead of let the tears fall because they'll be real.
Chadwick would be proud. End.
Go ahead of let the tears fall because they'll be real.
Chadwick would be proud. End.
Me in teenlet at Wakanda Forever. Me unsure where to look as always 
Love hearing folk seeing it and enjoying it too. #WakandaForever
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