Marvel's What If...?

Disney+ | Release Date: August 11, 2021

6.8	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 127 Ratings

USER RATING DISTRIBUTION

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Watch Now

Stream On

Review this TV Series

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Please sign in or create an account before writing a review.

Check box if your review contains spoilers

0 characters (5000 max)

User Reviews

User score By date Most helpful

MclintocOct 6, 2021

Growing Up, the What If? series was one of my favorites. The MCU has largely been successful because it has followed the spirit of the comics. How disappointing this series has been. Their goal seems to be to telling mediocre versions of theGrowing Up, the What If? series was one of my favorites. The MCU has largely been successful because it has followed the spirit of the comics. How disappointing this series has been. Their goal seems to be to telling mediocre versions of the same stories they've already told. Most of the characterizations are inane. The plots are silly--so Ultron with the Infinity Stones is really just a tougher version of the regular Ultron rather than the post powerful being of the universe, and Tony Stark, his inventor, was apparently not important enough to be asked to join the team to defeat him? Since these are animated stories with endless possibilities, why not introduce some of the other hundreds of awesome Marvel characters? I have been a big fan of the MCU since its inception. I really do fear they are losing their way.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

All this user's reviews

kingmemarleyAug 13, 2021

It was just a power fantasy for women. That's ok, but not with really bad writing. It was a disappointment. Hopefully it gets better but this episode was not what I was expecting.

1 of 12 users found this helpful111

All this user's reviews

BroyaxDec 31, 2021

Une marvellerie de plus mais en série animée… et tout en 3D quand même ! ça change de la vieille 2D fatiguenaze très agréablement tout en gardant un aspect très ‘dessin animé’. C’est bien rendu… bien qu’un peu criard hélas, comme si laUne marvellerie de plus mais en série animée… et tout en 3D quand même ! ça change de la vieille 2D fatiguenaze très agréablement tout en gardant un aspect très ‘dessin animé’. C’est bien rendu… bien qu’un peu criard hélas, comme si la technicolor surannée des années 50 était revenue en force…

Cela étant, on se rend vite compte de ce qui cloche… à savoir l’univers crétin des marvelleries merdveilleuses au service de ses agendas SJW (féminisme imbécile, LGBGT, minorités insérées et étalées devant le spectateur de façon majoritaire au forceps et ainsi de suite…). Les petites histoires racontées ici sont bêtes et visent un jeune public, le public niais des produits Disniais… évidemment.

En conséquence de quoi, on se fait chier à la vitesse de la lumière dans cette série-étron malgré -pourtant- un nombre d’épisodes limité (9 en tout) et une durée d’environ 30 minutes à chaque fois : un comble !

Alors, la question fort légitime se pose, celle que tout le monde se pose : et si… et si Marvel arrêtait de faire de la merde sous l’égide niaise de Disniais ?!… et si Marvel faisait une pause ? en allant se faire foutre par exemple. Mais c’est juste une suggestion comme ça…… Expand

0 of 2 users found this helpful02

All this user's reviews

Jazzyj97Aug 16, 2021

I had high hopes for this show, as the animation is gorgeous and the concept is intriguing. But woof, that first episode was a doozy. With a half hour runtime, the idea to essentially rewrite the entirety of the first Captain America film andI had high hopes for this show, as the animation is gorgeous and the concept is intriguing. But woof, that first episode was a doozy. With a half hour runtime, the idea to essentially rewrite the entirety of the first Captain America film and cram it into 1/4th the space makes the whole thing feel VERY rushed. Moments that need time to breathe just whiz on by, and all there seems to be time for are really stale, phoned-in one-liners for Sebastian Stan’s Bucky and Dominic Cooper’s Howard Stark. And boy, are the lines bad. In fact, the dialogue throughout is stilted, devoid of laughs (that doesn’t stop the show from trying though!), and leans so heavily on repeated callbacks to the live-action films that it feels more like bad fan-fiction than an actual Marvel product. I’m shocked the studio let these scripts go into production like this. We get it, Peggy owes Rogers a dance. Steve is just a kid from Brooklyn. Can they talk about anything else that we haven’t already seen dozens of times?

Here’s hoping subsequent episodes rebound and find their groove, because this first episode was nothing more than a poorly written feminist power fantasy. As cringey and eyerolling as that whole thing often is, I can tolerate such content when written well. But when it’s written poorly, with a tropey, two dimensional (ha) woman-hating general with zero sense and super transparent, one-note motives, it becomes a very difficult watch. Outside of Loki and Falcon/Winter Soldier, Marvel has churned out some pretty terrible stuff as of late. Fingers crossed the trend doesn’t continue.… Expand

0 of 13 users found this helpful013

All this user's reviews

GabrielRyanAug 20, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Fantastic animation and voice acting ranging from passable to masterful (given that many actors reprise their original roles and the soundalike actors for those who do not are carefully chosen), but the episodes suffer from rushed runtime which seems better spent by giving the episodes longer hour-length runtimes, and character assassination - as has been the case with a lot of Disney-Marvel productions lately. We are 2 episodes in now, and in each episode a character makes a ridiculous and unfitting decision in order to drive the plot forward.

In episode 1, The Red Skull carelessly summons a monster from beyond Earth in the hopes that it will serve Hydra, but is instantly crushed to death by it. Despite being both Captain America's equal in strength and superior in cleverness, he is killed instantly by a handful of tentacles from this monster, while Captain Carter (the equivalent to Cpt. America in this episode) proceeds to shove the entire creature's body back into the portal it came from using only her own body. A massive plot contrivance which breaks established lore in order to support the character. Furthermore, the process which elevates Peggy Carter to the status of SuperSoldier is apparently waved off as "not much different to the usual medical checkups", which makes absolutely no sense for a serum which is meant to enhance muscle mass and bone density, and had Steve Rogers screaming in pain for minutes in his own reality. This I'm less hung up on; there COULD be an argument as to how a woman with more experience in the army would be able to endure an enhancement procedure like this, but it is still worrying.

In Episode 2, Yondu chooses to kidnap an unfamiliar child from Earth despite knowing fully that even kidnapping Peter Quill (the boy he was SUPPOSED to take) is a massive betrayal to the honor code of the Ravagers and could put him in serious danger with a world-destroying being. In this case, he instead chooses to kidnap T'challa and ignore the fact that his relatives are ready for space travel and are dedicated to finding him, and we later find out he lies to T'challa that they are dead and gone only because he enjoys having him aboard his own ship. Shortly after, we are supposed to believe that T'challa was able to stop Thanos from galaxy-spanning genocide not by killing him, but by arguing that the universe's resources could be divided among the worlds to prevent destruction. This is an argument that must have been made to Thanos before and, by his own reasoning in the MCU, would only stave off the universe's inevitable destruction - not halt it. Then Thanos proceeds to bend the knee to both Yondu and T'challa as his superior officers, which is utterly impossible for someone who is as egotistical as Thanos. Finally, Thanos ends up thrown in a prison cell by The Collector, a man who was killed by Thanos in the MCU films after they met - and then nearly killed by two characters who were shown to be his servants in the films. It's nothing short of stunning in the worst possible way.

Congratulations, Marvel. You have assassinated three characters if not four, in the span of two episodes.

Ultimately this is a sign that the people in charge of Marvel's productions are more interested in empowering the heroes by breaking the strength and morals of the supporting cast, rather than telling a cohesive story that tells a genuine conflict of personalities. It's a sign that they believe that people only care about seeing the hero win, and not about how they reach that victory or how important strengths, weaknesses, values, beliefs and conviction are in that process.… Expand

0 of 10 users found this helpful010

All this user's reviews

HeroicAge616Oct 25, 2021

What If? Season 1 has a gem or two inside it, but it's largely a boring retelling with some embarrassingly low lows and character assassinations.

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

All this user's reviews

Current TV Shows

By MetascoreBy User Score

1 92 The Pitt: Season 2

2 90 The Celebrity Traitors UK: Season 1

3 87 Hacks: Season 5

4 87 Industry: Season 4