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Movie Review - The Avengers (2012)

Thus how do you create a threat to a demigod, a supersoldier, a man in an indestructible metal suit and a hulking green juggernaut? Well, you really cannot. But with a surplus of loud explosions, large battles, and limitless CG effects you can feign the correct quantity of journey to appease fans of such monumental clashes between good and evil. The Avengers keeps the ideas straightforward enough, but piles on thus much mayhem it will become wearisome to those not previously invested in its subjects and willing to readily believe within the delirious events transpiring on screen. If you are not cheering when our gang of superheroes takes down a giant mechanical house worm, you probably knew a very long time ago this movie wasn't for you.

As Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and therefore the agents of the key military agency S.H.I.E.L.D. attempt to harness the power of the extraterrestrial energy source referred to as the Tesseract, the villainous exiled demigod Loki (Tom Hiddleston) returns to Earth to steal it. Along with the cube, Loki brainwashes and kidnaps assassin Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) and scientist Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard) to help in his devious plot to beat all of humanity. To combat this new threat, Fury reinstitutes his scrapped "Avengers" initiative and sets concerning gathering along the globe's greatest heroes - Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson).

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The posing, evil grimacing to denote villainy, and arsenal of 1-liners are at an all-time high within the Avengers, which works to assemble a group of superheroes that constantly compete for screen time, one-upmanship, and also the last laugh. The humor is actually overdone, poking fun in any respect of the characters and things to the point that audiences will probably querythat absurdities they should be taking seriously. And that's detrimental in an exceedingly film overflowing with fantastical silliness, both visually and from dialogue. It's dangerous enough that despite gods and alien worlds, the extremely advanced technology remains unbelievable - which jargon like gamma signature, thermonuclear, quantum, fusion, and cognitive recalibration sound so ludicrously forced for the sake of convincing viewers that the Avengers' instruments are beyond general comprehension.

Although it is not quite a sequel, it still only feels appropriate to live it up to films like Transformers 3, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Iron Man a pair of, Superman Returns and therefore the like. It's not as mind-numbingly nonsensical as a few of the aforementioned titles, however it does not look or feel original, and therefore the abundance of special effects and overwhelming destruction create nonstop spectacle while not substance. Never once is there any real peril; this is created upsettingly apparent with the inclusion of non-superheroes Black Widow and Hawkeye, who are simply too drastically inferior to go up against world catastrophes initiated by intergalactic alien wargods. With an entire lack of definition for the numerous powers exhibited by the antagonists and protagonists alike, their large demolition of Manhattan and battling one another for the title of "toughest superhero" means very little. They might also all be invincible. No villain is formidable enough and no force threatening enough for these cartoonish CG-inundated extravagances to be sympathetic.