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Movie Review - The Avengers (2012)
Thus how does one pose 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, huge battles, and limitless CG effects you'll feign the proper amount of journey to appease fans of such monumental clashes between good and evil. The Avengers keeps the concepts simple enough, but piles on therefore a lot of 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 by the time our gang of superheroes takes down a large mechanical space worm, you almost certainly knew a very long time ago this movie wasn't for you.
As Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and the agents of the secret military agency S.H.I.E.L.D. attempt to harness the power of the extraterrestrial energy source known 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 assist in his devious plot to overcome all of humanity. To combat this new threat, Fury reinstitutes his scrapped "Avengers" initiative and sets about gathering together 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).
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 the last laugh. The humor is actually overdone, poking fun at all of the characters and situations to the point that audiences can in all probability question that absurdities they should be taking seriously. And that is detrimental in a very film overflowing with fantastical silliness, each visually and from dialogue. It's dangerous enough that despite gods and alien worlds, the extremely advanced technology continues to be unbelievable - and that jargon like gamma signature, thermonuclear, quantum, fusion, and cognitive recalibration sound thus 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 measure it up to films like Transformers 3, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Iron Man a pair of, Superman Returns and also the like. It's not as mind-numbingly nonsensical as some of the aforementioned titles, but it does not look or feel original, and also the abundance of tricks and overwhelming destruction produce nonstop spectacle without 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 just too drastically inferior to go up against international catastrophes initiated by intergalactic alien wargods. With a complete lack of definition for the numerous powers exhibited by the antagonists and protagonists alike, their massive demolition of Manhattan and battling each other for the title of "toughest superhero" means that very very little. They would possibly furthermore all be invincible. No villain is formidable enough and no force threatening enough for these cartoonish CG-inundated extravagances to be sympathetic.
