The Marvels And What's Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The new movie The Marvels is one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's breezier outings, full of energy and jokes and zappy light powers. Brie Larson returns as Captain Marvel, and sees her teaming up with newer characters, Monica Rambeau (played by Teyonah Parris) and Kamala Khan (played by Iman Vellani). They must team up when their powers become entangled and cause them to switch places whenever they try to use them.

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0:00.0	The Marvel's is the latest movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to hit theaters.
0:09.0	It's one of the breezier Marvel outings full of energy and jokes and zappy light powers.
0:14.0	It stars Bree Larson, Tiana Paris, and Eamon Valani as the characters they played in
0:18.6	Captain Marvel, Wand division, and. Marvel respectively.
0:22.7	When their powers become entangled,
0:24.3	they start switching places whenever they try to use them.
0:27.6	I'm Linda Holmes.
0:28.5	And I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're talking about The Marvels
0:31.2	on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.
0:33.0	Joining us today is Ronald Young Jr.
0:35.0	He is the host of the film and television review podcast
0:37.5	leaving the theater and the podcast.
0:39.5	Wait for it.
0:40.5	Hey Ronald. Hello, Glenn.
0:41.5	Also with us is Daisy Rosario.
0:43.0	She's senior supervising producer of Audio at Slate, where she worked with shows like Outward,
0:47.5	Slate's LGBTQ show.
0:49.1	Hey, Daisy.
0:49.8	Hey, Glenn.
0:50.8	Let's get to it.
0:51.8	A warning, the word Marvel is going to be getting a serious workout.
0:55.0	Case in point, the Marvels is a sequel to 2019's Captain Marvel and also brings in
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