Black Panther: Prowling & Growling its way to Stupendous Success

What does the creative team on the MCU table have for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?

It's a rhetorical question that is solely based on the solid fact of great consistency with which these guys, and girls!, deliver one movie after another at a remarkable rate of churning out high-quality films again and again.

It just shows the level of seriousness as to how they put their shoulder to the wheel to make their audience go bonkers on their new release and at the same time, create an insane magnitude of expectation for the next.

This is the case with Black Panther (BP) as well.

Though its successor has already sky-rocketing anticipation as it's none other than the InfinityWars (IW).

But, what BP has done is to give a more enormous thrust to the existing hype and hoopla surrounding IW that it will at least take a light year for Elon Musk's Red Tesla to even catch a faint glimpse at the monstrously accelerating and expanding growth for IW.

So,  it begs the all-important question.

Is BP really THAT good?

First up.

Though BP is the protagonist, the real heroes are the women folks in the movie.

Be it Nakia or Okoye or Shuri - they sizzled on the screen with their presence and acting performances to the extent that it almost eclipsed - Ney! narrowly eclipsed - the titular character in the process.

The action sequence in South Korea is a testimony to the wondrous amalgam of technology and stunts that left the viewers (Read: Me) dazzled and uniquely reminiscent of Wonder Woman and Atomic Blonde kinda daredevilry by them.

Speaking of the tech aspects showcased, it was a one-of-a-kind imagination especially the scene where Dr. Watson - Oops! - Martin Freeman was lying down on his back and Shuri used her gizmo to diagnose his ailment on his spine to pinpoint the location of the injury.

Wouldn't it be fantastic if we had such a Medical Miracle in our real life that assesses and gives us the severity spontaneously than making us go to great pains, pun intended, in moving from MRI to X-Ray facilities for getting the reports of our medical condition?

As we are on the topic of the condition, the setting of the Wakanda Empire was straight out of a hi-tech alien settlement in either a Parallel Universe or somewhere in the Universe now. 

The raw power of Vibranium and most importantly, the extra hours put in by the CGI team for creating the landscapes and cityscapes of Wakanda that ran by harnessing its potency and bringing it alive was spectacularly seen instead of merely saying as a dialogue "Ours is a technologically superior country".

The 'How' factor to substantiate this dialogue was well-brought out by the VFX team who I am sure would have burnt their midnight oil.

Chadwick as the BP was superb excepting those singular moments during the intense emotional scenes where he was forcing and laboring himself to be one instead of naturally playing out in the context of the scene. His signature backflips were a delight though the story was as old as a dinosaur and seemed to drag more than what it should have been particularly in the second half.

But, the dinosaur was presented in a visually appealing way.

Likewise, when compared to the other Marvel films like Dead Pool, GotG, Ant-Man, Avengers etc., the humor element was a bit restrained. 

Given that the BP was a serious character and not as livelier as the other superheroes, it makes sense. 

Still, BP isn't the only character, right? 

Considering all the rave reviews that were deluging BP prior to its release, I personally felt that the new flick from Marvel's stables could have been a lot better.

By saying this, I am not saying that it was bad.

It was good and captured the African spirit interbraiding with the wonder of technology.

Yep.

Good and not certainly the Best.

PS:

My personal favo was the nonchalant response which the Jabari gives when BP and his fam engaged in a long and mawkish verbal discussion by standing in his palace. It was a howler of a scene.