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MONDELLO: That said, the reason 'Eternals' is compelling has less to do with its planet-shattering conflicts than with the cosmic off-screen conflict it represents - indie art house director versus Marvel franchise machine.

One of the film's niftier conceits, actually, is that the battlefield exploits of superfolks named Ikaris, Sersi, and Gilgamesh might have inspired the legends humans passed down of gods and sorcerers with those names.

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When things get too quiet, Zhao can also zip back to wars in ancient Babylon or an Aztec city-state. To, say, an inflection point moment thousands of years ago when an Eternal introducing a primitive plow could change the course of agriculture. RICHARD MADDEN: (As Ikaris) What is this even made of - Vibranium? And in that regard, 'Eternals' is both overcomplicated and clever, zipping back from characters' domestic lives in the present. None of them seems ideally suited to battling a rope-asaurus (ph), but who am I to question Marvel's deploying of superprotectors? I am, though, qualified to talk about storytelling. One's superpower is that he's a whiz at mechanical engineering.Д«RIAN TYREE HENRY: (As Phastos) You know what's never saved the planet? - your sarcasm. MONDELLO: Folks who fly or zip or wield magical spears, who turn things to dust, create energy grenades from dust, are good with mind control, wound healing, holograms - I mean, there are 10 of these superfolks. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Where we are - how (ph)? And two, she is going to have a lot more in the foreground this time. One, director Chloe Zhao has not lost the eye for rugged landscapes and Oscar-worthy sunrises that she brought to 'Nomadland' last year. MONDELLO: It's at about this point - and we are maybe three minutes in - that two things become clear. Their mission - to protect humankind from what look like alien rope-asaurus-es (ph). So how is it? Well, critic Bob Mondello's superpower is he can tell us.Д«OB MONDELLO, BYLINE: Where most Marvel movies start at a gallop, this one starts with a crawl, as in paragraphs crawling up the screen Star Wars-style - talking Celestials from Olympia and Arishem and Deviants - a whole mythology to lay out before a triangular slab of a spaceship can show up on the shores of Mesopotamia 7,000 years ago.

And it's directed by Chloe Zhao, who won two Oscars earlier this year for a film that couldn't be less like a Marvel movie. It tells a story that just barely connects to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's got superheroes no one has ever met before on screen.

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The new Marvel movie 'Eternals' really is new.