The Avengers

We have been waiting for the last 4 years. 5 movies have warmed this up for us. Wait are we talking about Sacha Baron Cohen's Dictator? No. The Avengers is finally here!!! Was it worth the warm ups? Does it even deserve our attention? Hell yeah! Avengers Assemble!!!!!

Damn! I wish I was a carzy fanboy, who has read all the Avengers comic books, or who has a Captain America costume in the wardrobe but unfortunately I can't have a costume, or read the comic books.

However I can and I will watch all of the Avengers solo movies very soon. If you look at the solo movies, their mostly pretty good.

The first Iron man movie was very good but I felt that the second one was just too much. It would have been okay if that movie  had never been made. The best thing about Iron man 2 was that they showed more of S.H.I.E.L.D and we got the chance to learn more about the Shield agents.

The 2008 Hulk movie was just boring. Nothing more to say.

Thor was good but it was missing something and the end result was a bit dry for me.

In my opinion the best of the solo movies was Captain America: the first avenger. It had absolutely everything, action, story and interesting characters. It was so much fun to watch and Chris Evans really brings the character to life in a really awesome way.

Now we're getting to the Avengers.

Writer, director Joss Whedon ( Firefly, Buffy the vampire slayer, Serenity) has made an incredible movie, which has a lot of action but also has moving scenes and actual fleshed out characters who have hearts and brains.

Let's face it. It probably wasn't easy for Whedon to write all of these characters into one big movie, especially considering that everyone of them has a big ego. In the wrong hands it could have all just collapsed. But Whedon makes it work and the result is one epic Hulk of a movie.

So the basic story is that Thor's Brother Loki, played brilliantly by Tom Hiddleston, returns to earth to conquer our planet and rule humans as their king. To stop him a superteam is formed. The teams members are Iron man, Thor, Black widow, Hawkeye, Hulk and Captain America.

I am not going to spoil anything, but  I will say that the intro in very fast. Basically no credits, they just suck you in. What made it even faster, was that there were no trailers before the movie. For me the first 30 minutes were really weird, I accepted the movie, but I was afraid that something might go wrong and I might not like it. But fortunately the movie was very swift, everything is just right and very massive. I think that what made me cautious was the pacing, it just moved so fast, but then you get pulled in to the story and you forget about the pacing.

In some cases when you watch a movie the only thing you want to see is the action  This is not the case. It's good to see how these mega heroes get along, how is the relationship between Tony Stark and Bruce Banner or how is the dynamic between Captain America and Thor. Usually scenes like that are really boring, but I must say that in The Avengers these simple scenes work really well.

Many of us are probably already fans of these characters, The Avengers gives us an oppurtunity to get know our favourites better
.Now I'm going to untangle the mess and talk about each of the main charaters.

Let's start with Iron man.

Robert Downey Jr is phenomenal. Whedon has written Tony Star in a way that makes him more interesting than in either of the previous Iron man films. It's really interesting to watch him plus he is the one who supplies the movie with humor. Mostly.

I really didn't care about Edward Norton's Hulk. The movie was mostly extremely boring and the Hulk looked kind of weird. Everything has changed here. Instead of Norton, Bruce Banner is played by Mark Ruffalo, now Ruffalo is the first actor to ever actually play the Hulk. Thanks to Motion Capture The Hulk  and Ruffalo look very similar. Before I saw the Avengers I did not care about the Hulk at all. Now I'm hoping that the Green guy will get his own movie and if he does I hope Ruffalo will play Hulk again. Next to Stark, he is the other character who supplies the movie with nice one liners.

As I mentioned before, last year's Thor was a bit boring. I don't understand why the critics loved it so much. It did have action, but the action was played out in a boring way and the end result was mediocre. After I saw Thor, I was a little surprised to be honest, because my favourite character was Loki. Chris Hemsworth is probably the only person who fits in the roll so perfectly. He was good in the first movie but here Thor really kicks ass and punches the living daylights out the bad guys.

                                                                             

I, like many others was surprised when they announced that Scarlett Johannson would play Black widow in Iron man 2. She wasn't bad, but the character really didn't have any purpose and didn't have much screentime. This time things are different and black widow gets a lot more attention. Good, because she is a really interesting character. At times she is a strong and powerful character. I like that they have brought Black widow in because among the pretty much all male cast it's good to see a strong female character especially one that kicks ass.

Jeremy Renner surprised in Mission impossible IV. He was one of the best thing about that movie.
He really pulls off of the Hawkeye role. Hawkeye is a really cool character. Like Black widow he is able to kick ass. Mostly he is used in a way that I did not expect. Who the hell said that Hawkeye gets little screentime.  If he did get little screentime, I didn't notice.

                                                                                 

Nick Fury like others gets a lot more "so called " airtime. He is a lot more developed here and again a really cool character. One of the reasons I wanted to see this movie so much was because I knew that the more minor characters would also get a lot more attention.
       

                                                                             


The Total Film reviewer said that Captain America was theand cool  least interesting avenger. How can anyone say that? In my opinion he is the most interesting character. He is the man out of time. He was frozen for 70 years and now he must adapt with the modern world. It's actually quite sad to watch him beacuse he is alone and everyone he knew is dead and the world is strange to him. It's even cooler to see him in action, fighting alongside Thor and the others. At one point when he was getting his ass kicked I was like " No you can't kick his ass, he is too cool to get beat up"

Tom Hiddleston is perfect as the villain Loki, Thor's brother. Hiddleston makes one of the better villains in recent movie history. Despite the fact that he is a bad guy, he really has a back- story and he is an interesting character. I liked him in Thor but here he is even better.

But how is the Avengers a movie? It's awesome. First half of the movie kind of goes back and forth between the action and calm scenes. The second half of the movie is basically all out action. It is probably one of the best action movies of all time.  Despite that you never get bored. I am warning you,    there are a lot of laugh out loud scenes, you'll get tot laugh a lot. I did not think that it was going to be this funny but the jokes work really well.

As for the music I really like that they have used familiar themes in a couple of scenes, like in a few scenes with Captain America they have used  music that was In the first Avenger.

Action is a big part of this movie and as I mentioned it works incredibly well. The special effects are first rate, there are a lot of explosions and things go boom. From some point I just watched this with a grin on my face because simply put, this film is super epic.

The 3D is starting to annoy me. In most cases it's just sitting at the movie theater, wearing glasses and watching a 2-D image. The Avengers..... is not one of those movies. The movie has been surprisingly well converted. They really have done a terrific job. Some scenes just pop out of the screen and the end fight is one terrific 3D scene after the other. This 3D conversion better than either Titanic or Wrath of the Titans.

The Avengers is the best superhero movie ever made, not only because there is  plenty of action but because  it's interesting to see these superheroes together, fighting side by side and their dynamic is incredibly well done. The Avengers are here and they were worth the wait. The Avengers has a brain, a heart and a sense of humor. And there is a lot of action. Something for everyone.