Review: "Marvel's The Avengers" PG 13
Marvel studios has been building up for this 2012 movie release for over three years, and it pays off with the Joss Whedon feature film, a ripping fantasy comic book action adventure featuring the heroes from the Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America and Thor franchises, together like a Marvel version of Justice League. When SHIELD is attacked and the magic cosmic cube is stolen, a demigod like alien called Loki threatens to destroy their organization from within, and convince an alien army to invade New York. The idea seems simple enough, and the orchestration is finely crafted, for a comic book movie. The characters, such as there was time, were fleshed out well enough so it wasn't just mindless action sequences. Each personality clashed with others, and the demigods had trouble playing nice mutant with the other mutants and heroes. It wasn't as long paced and winded as X Men from a decade and more ago, and it had more heart than the first Iron Man or the Nolan Batman movies. The Batman movies were great also, but at times there was something not right. This time the script, direction and story were nearly perfect. Right on up to the action packed last half hour, the story has incredible effects, what looks like stunt work but is probably CGI, and butt kicking vehicles also, like a literal flying fortress, a heli-carrier right out of a GI Joe comic book. Awesome. The only real oddity is that the Hawkeye character is really not necessary. And when the possessed scientists handled that uranium without protection it would have radiated them and the lab, but okay. Fine,. It's a movie.
Review by Adam Browne
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