"Avengers 2: Age of Ultron" PG 13
The second Marvel collection is nearly over, as Ant Man will be out next to finish the next wave, but there will be more. It's time again for another Avengers from Joss Whedon. This time the gang returns and knocks over the hideout of a notorious bad guy seen in the Winter Soldier, which means you have to have seen it. I have seen it. The story become complicated when Iron Man and Banner/Hulk decide later to just create artificial intelligence over night, rather than Ant Man doing it in his lab as in the comic. Using Jarvis the AI, they hack into the Loki scepter stolen from the raid and activate some kind of brain inside it. This never occurs to them, or to Thor, to be a very bad idea. The energy crystal in it is one of the Infinity Gems from the comics, which also leads somewhere else. The energy is somehow conscious and alive, and it soon breaks out.
Later on the guys are having a party, Black Widow is flirting with Hulk, for no apparent reason at all, as she flirted with Captain America in Winter Soldier and it meant nothing. Although she makes a case for being a bad butt kicking super spy allegedly sterilized by the secret order, she is clearly a few months pregnant. The actress is that is. (She was actually but the character was not supposed to be). Actually in the comics she is not sterile.
The boys joke about lifting Thor's hammer as though it is a sex joke, which is something they would do, while drinking, and that's when Ultron appears as a butt kicking robot that kicks the tar out of the room and then declares he will pull off his strings and end the tyranny of the Avengers and of Stark, or Iron Man. Then he leaves.
Later he hacks into the internet, which is not self aware, and attempts to create a new body for himself to destroy humanity, while programming and building a city sized 'vibranium' alien metal rock asteroid thing out of a city so he can later chuck it at the Earth. You know, stuff villains do.
The cocoon or pod the Avengers try to capture eventually becomes important to the team and to the possible defeat of their nemesis. (No spoilers).
The story is sharp but not quite as fun as the last one, Winter Soldier or Thor the Dark World. Guardians of the Galaxy though was brilliant. The move can be best enjoyed on big screens though.
Review by Adam Browne
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