Disney has finally done it. It has wrung the Marvel universe dry, extracting every conceivable drop of marketable superpower. Its preliminary characters, such as Iron Man, Spider-Man, or Captain America, have already leaped beyond the bounds of their comic book pages and penetrated pop culture.

Now, having exhausted its crop of big-name heroes, Disney has begun exhuming the deep cuts of Marvel’s catalog. Hence, we’re introduced to the Eternals: a coterie of immortal super-beings created to live among humans without interfering in their affairs. That is, except for when Deviants, the Eternals’ odious and destructive complements, are involved. Predictably, the Deviants — creatures animated as giant, menacing clogs of CGI — appear and threaten the survival of the entire human species (the apocalyptic specter we’ve come to expect from every other movie these days).