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Movie Review - The Avengers (2012)
So how do you pose a threat to a demigod, a supersoldier, a man in an indestructible metal suit and a hulking green juggernaut? Well, you actually cannot. But with a surplus of loud explosions, massive battles, and limitless CG effects you'll be able to feign the right quantity of journey to appease fans of such monumental clashes between sensible and evil. The Avengers keeps the ideas simple enough, but piles on thus much mayhem it can 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 when our gang of superheroes takes down a giant mechanical house worm, you probably knew a long time ago this movie wasn't for you.
As Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and therefore the agents of the secret military agency S.H.I.E.L.D. attempt to harness the facility 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 conquer 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, that works to assemble a cluster of superheroes that constantly compete for screen time, one-upmanship, and therefore the last laugh. The humor is truly overdone, poking fun the least bit of the characters and situations to the purpose that audiences will most likely querywhich absurdities they must be taking seriously. And that's detrimental in an exceedingly film overflowing with fantastical silliness, each visually and from dialogue. It's bad enough that despite gods and alien worlds, the extremely advanced technology is still 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 live it up to films like Transformers 3, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Iron Man 2, Superman Returns and therefore the like. It is not as mind-numbingly nonsensical as some of the aforementioned titles, however it does not look or feel original, and therefore the abundance of special effects and overwhelming destruction create nonstop spectacle while not substance. Never once is there any real peril; this is often made upsettingly apparent with the inclusion of non-superheroes Black Widow and Hawkeye, who are just too drastically inferior to travel up against global 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 one another for the title of "toughest superhero" suggests that terribly very little. They may still all be invincible. No villain is formidable enough and no force threatening enough for these cartoonish CG-inundated extravagances to be sympathetic.
