At this point, we can be honest. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a bad movie.

Oh, it has its moments, particularly in the first half: the initial attack of the Talokans on the American ship, T’Challa’s funeral, every single thing that Angela Bassett does as Queen Ramonda. But the movie suffers from too much fragmentation, particularly on Marvel’s end. Instead of exploring the characters that director Ryan Coogler and his co-writer Joe Robert Cole brought to life in the first movie, we spend so much time with Everett K. Ross, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, and Riri Williams–characters who all had significant parts in upcoming Marvel projects.

Wakanda Forever isn’t the first bad Marvel movie, nor is it the first disappointing sequel. And so some may be tempted to put the blame

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