The hype around this
movie was so massive I was almost apprehensive about actually seeing it due to
the inevitable disappointment that comes with over-hyped movies. It’s happened
quite a few times to me, Avatar for example, but I can say with great pleasure
that The Avengers is not such disappointment!
This is possibly the biggest superhero movie to date;
definitely Marvel’s biggest. Instead of being just about one main character
this movie throws together a whole truckload of them. The collective group of
Avengers consists of Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth),
Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (Scarlett
Johansson), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), and their leader Nick Fury (Samuel L
Jackson). Their foe is Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Thor’s brother from Asgard and he
is an awesome villain.
While all the actors are great in this movie, a special
mention should be made to Tom Hiddleston and his performance as Loki. He's just
a fun antagonist who tends to do a lot of things because he can... Hiddleston
captures all the mischief of Loki brilliantly and works brilliantly with all
the characters he interacts with.
Loki’s ploy is essentially to have the world bow to him for
egotistical reasons I suppose, or just to annoy Thor which is also a valid
reason, he finds himself transported to Earth by his unknown allies in space.
He arrives at SHIELD’s headquarters and starts raising all kinds of hell…
With Loki running amok, Nick Fury must assemble a team of
fighters in an attempt to save the world! …what you were expecting Shakespeare?
The Avengers is all about being as big and as ridiculous as
possible; smashing up enemies and tearing cities apart. This is the bread and
butter of the modern day superhero film. If a building doesn’t fall over then
your superhero movie is broken…
It does everything you expect only at a much grander scale
and with several main characters and not just one. This movie takes the
standard superhero action movie and throws in a big green monster who literally
smashes up everything in his path. The best thing about The Avengers is that it
manages to combine the best parts of all the previous movie together. The
humour found in Thor for example is still very much alive in this movie just as
much as Iron Man’s wisecracking and Captain America’s all round manliness!
It’s taken a while but Marvel have finally managed to make
decent movies. Recently many of their film adaptations have been pretty good
and The Avengers is definitely the pinnacle of their success. It’s the best
movie from Marvel Studios by an absolute mile!
Most of the characters get equal amounts of screen time
which is great as everyone has their favourite character (mine is Thor by the
way) so nobody is really left out. Saying that Black Widow and Hawkeye get a
lot less than the others do which is probably about right when you weigh it all
up, Hawkeye was only in Thor for like five seconds…
When I say equal amounts of screen time by the way, I do not
mean that all the actors got equal amounts of money for doing this movie…
Robert Downey Jr received double the money of what everyone else got COMBINED.
Did he deserve it? I suppose his name does help sell the movie but I found that
fact a tad unfair…
The Avengers is just great, it’s full of everything you
could ever ask for from a popcorn movie and you don’t even need to have seen
the movies leading up to it. I love having pointless fanboy conversations about
which character is the best, who would win in a fight between x and y, what the
best bit in the movie is; I could easily go on and on about it for quite a
while.
In terms of negatives, there aren’t really that many. Sure,
some characters are developed a little more than others are but generally this
isn’t much of an issue. Black Widow harbours the biggest question marks in this
movie as she keeps going on and on about some red that she got on her ledger. I
literally have no idea what this even means, and we never find out. Maybe I
missed something in another movie.
I just can't fault it, I went to see a ridiculous
over-the-top crossover movie and that's exactly what I got. When you go to the
cinema and you see a little lad in dressed as Thor complete with a mighty
hammer and everything, you know you’re in for a great movie! The only thing
that could have made it better would be if he had a brother dressed as Loki!
Final Verdict: 5 Stars. Your move Batman.
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