Friday, April 24, 2015

Marvel's The Avengers (2012) Review

            Here we go this is what you’ve all been waiting for! Kind of! Yeah! (Seriously is anyone still reading at this point?) The Avengers! A movie so awesome it has the combined star power of, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, and Tom Hiddleston! This is the movie everyone expected to fail epically, instead it became the highest growing super hero film of all time, and the third highest grossing movie of all time! Oh my god can you believe that what I’m telling you is fact? (I can’t believe I can still nerd out over an overplayed action adventure movie more than three years old!)
            Loki, after having been believed dead by the finale of Thor, is now on earth, sporting longer hair, and a sweet killer staff with the power of mind control! Loki is here to cause chaos, give the cosmic cube to an otherworldly overlord, and take over the planet earth as it’s one and only ruler! So how do we stop him? Gather the most powerful people on the planet earth to fight the battles that we never could! It’s really the plot to Mortal Kombat the more I think about it…
            The Avengers successfully takes all of these characters that have no reason being in the same room with one another, gives them a purpose, continues their individual stories, and entertains like nobody’s business. The film is also Director Joss Whedon’s third directed feature film to be released nationwide. The man himself both wrote and directed this movie, not an easy task. Wheden says that writing the film became easier once he realized that all of these different people simply didn’t like each other. And they had to realize that sometimes there are bigger things then themselves out there, so they have no choice but to come together as a team.
            Although Tom Hiddleston as Loki is always fun to watch, he shined in Thor because they did a lot with his emotional depth. And that is lost in this film because Loki serves one major purpose, he must be a threat! So in order to do this, the character is played off much more as a straight forward villain. Not bad, there’s really no other way this could have been done in the grand scheme of this movie, but his acting in Thor may made viewers feel as though something is missing.

            Looking back on it, sure it seems like this movie was destined to succeed from the very get-go, but there are a million and one things that could have gone wrong here. I think Marvel really caught lighting in a bottle when they made the Avengers, because of how crowded the film could have felt. Whether or not this is a fair assumption or not will all be determined on May 1st, 2015 when its sequel finally hits theaters! We all know what comes next, Avengers is an A+ superhero film, with honestly next to nothing wrong with it. Watch it. If you don’t you’re likely dead inside.

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