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Movie Review - The Avengers (2012)
Thus how does one create a threat to a demigod, a supersoldier, a person 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 can feign the correct amount of journey to appease fans of such monumental clashes between sensible and evil. The Avengers keeps the ideas easy enough, however piles on therefore a lot of mayhem it can become wearisome to those not previously invested in its subjects and willing to readily believe in the delirious events transpiring on screen. If you are not cheering when our gang of superheroes takes down a large mechanical area worm, you probably knew a 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. try to harness the power of the extraterrestrial energy supply referred to 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 concerning gathering along 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 truly overdone, poking fun in the least of the characters and things to the purpose that audiences will probably question that absurdities they must be taking seriously. And that is detrimental in a film overflowing with fantastical silliness, each visually and from dialogue. It's unhealthy enough that despite gods and alien worlds, the very advanced technology continues to be unbelievable - and that jargon like gamma signature, thermonuclear, quantum, fusion, and cognitive recalibration sound therefore ludicrously forced for the sake of convincing viewers that the Avengers' instruments are beyond general comprehension.
Although it's not quite a sequel, it still only feels appropriate to live it up to films like Transformers 3, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Iron Man two, Superman Returns and the like. It is not as mind-numbingly nonsensical as a few of the aforementioned titles, however it doesn't look or feel original, and also the abundance of camera work and overwhelming destruction produce nonstop spectacle while not substance. Never once is there any real peril; this is often 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 whole lack of definition for the varied powers exhibited by the antagonists and protagonists alike, their massive demolition of Manhattan and battling one another for the title of "toughest superhero" means that very little. They would possibly moreover all be invincible. No villain is formidable enough and no force threatening enough for these cartoonish CG-inundated extravagances to be sympathetic.
