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The Avengers (not starring Eddie Izzard)
May. 10th, 2012 10:55 am...at over 2 hours, I have to say that I never got bored. Ye verily, I was entertained.
In all honesty, when I first heard that the ultimate plan was that "Hulk", "Thor", "CapA" and the "Iron Men" would lead to a fullblown "Avengers"-movie, I was more than sceptical, mainly because I did not think that there really was any way of doing "Thor" live-action without him looking ludicrous. Kenneth Brannagh proved me wrong.
I still haven't watched "Captain America: The first avenger" yet, though, but did not get the feeling that I was missing some piece of vital information there. Having said that, I also felt that Cap was by far the blandest and least interesting of the Avengers, getting one really cool moment ("And why should I listen to you?") but otherwise not doing much beyond garden variety action hero stuff. Other than that, it was all very well balanced. Sure, as soon as Iron Man entered, it looked like he might steal the film (or rather, I thought "Yes, that's what I wanted from this film!") and somehow Thor, on account of being a somewhat epic character, really needed a bigger canvas for his backstory but that will undoubtedly happen in his own sequel, not here.
Black Widow? Yes, you can deeply analyze it and find quite a few things to get aggravated about, but for my money, she was a nicely fully-fleshed character (pun not intended but appropriate) pulling her weight and getting shit done. Go on, you go and tell her she's just eye-candy. I dare you.:-P
After a while I found myself asking myself why the Hulk had not yet put in appearance when everybody else had. Then He came and I realised that using him in smaller but well applied doses really was the way to go.
The aliens were a bit throwaway but obviously needed for the final section and the 3D frankly was superfluous but thankfully also used sparingly.
All in all: Mission accomplished!
In all honesty, when I first heard that the ultimate plan was that "Hulk", "Thor", "CapA" and the "Iron Men" would lead to a fullblown "Avengers"-movie, I was more than sceptical, mainly because I did not think that there really was any way of doing "Thor" live-action without him looking ludicrous. Kenneth Brannagh proved me wrong.
I still haven't watched "Captain America: The first avenger" yet, though, but did not get the feeling that I was missing some piece of vital information there. Having said that, I also felt that Cap was by far the blandest and least interesting of the Avengers, getting one really cool moment ("And why should I listen to you?") but otherwise not doing much beyond garden variety action hero stuff. Other than that, it was all very well balanced. Sure, as soon as Iron Man entered, it looked like he might steal the film (or rather, I thought "Yes, that's what I wanted from this film!") and somehow Thor, on account of being a somewhat epic character, really needed a bigger canvas for his backstory but that will undoubtedly happen in his own sequel, not here.
Black Widow? Yes, you can deeply analyze it and find quite a few things to get aggravated about, but for my money, she was a nicely fully-fleshed character (pun not intended but appropriate) pulling her weight and getting shit done. Go on, you go and tell her she's just eye-candy. I dare you.:-P
After a while I found myself asking myself why the Hulk had not yet put in appearance when everybody else had. Then He came and I realised that using him in smaller but well applied doses really was the way to go.
The aliens were a bit throwaway but obviously needed for the final section and the 3D frankly was superfluous but thankfully also used sparingly.
All in all: Mission accomplished!
