The Avengers Review

The Avengers PG-13 Nick Mantegani 5/7/2012 EN121 The Avengers is a Sci-Fi/Action characterization directed by Joss Whedon. It is rated PG-13. The movie stars a vast assortment of stars, including Robert Downey Jr. , Chris Evans, Samuel L. capital of Mississippi and more. It was released in whitethorn 2012, and is avail equal in a 3D format. The Avengers is the first movie in an ongoing series.The film acts as a sort of sequel to several films made by Marvel Comics, including entreat Man and agitate Man 2 (starring Downey, 2008 and 2010, respectively), The Incredible Hulk (Edward Norton, though the character has been replaced by Mark Ruffalo, 2008), Thor (Chris Hemsworth, 2011), and Captain the States The First Avenger (Evans, 2011). In The Avengers, ancient Norse god Loki (Tom Hiddleston), brother of Thor, gathers an army from an alternate populace to enslave the people of Earth. He acquires a powerful weapon c all(prenominal)ed the Tesseract, capable of destroying nearly anythin g.Nick Fury (Jackson), director of S. H. I. E. L. D. , an agency protecting the world, enlists the help of a separate of superheroes. put right Man, Captain America, Hulk, and the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) conjoin the effort, and atomic number 18 later joined by Thor and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner). Though at first the big personalities of the heroes clash and they compete each other, Fury eventually teaches them the importance of working unitedly as a team to bastinado the enemy. Fighting onside each other, the Avengers manage to thwart Lokis evil plan and send him, along with Thor, and Lokis army, back to where they came from.The Avengers is every comic book lovers dream come true. The individualist hero movies track up to the release of this movie were such a success that fans had been salivating to see these extraordinary beings come together and fight alongside each other. Whedon brought the characters together in a spectacular way. The banter between Iron Man and Bruce Banner (Hulk) shows a meeting of great minds. The relationship between the Black Widow and Hawkeye creates umpteen a(prenominal) questions that organize these two lesser characters seem more than more significant, which is important to the appeal of the movie.The clashing personalities of Iron Man, a self- pulld Playboy billionaire who questions everything and doesnt play by the rules and Captain America, a man thrust precedent in time from the 1940s who still has his sense of values and morals from the his time, shows two men who admit to work together who couldnt be any different. All these relationships and more are what makes the fact that all these people coming together is truly a remarkable thing and could potentially have been queer if Whedon had downplayed any of the elements that makes each character who they are.Whedon managed to take each character and let them act as they are intended to, such as Starks cockiness and Thors nobility, and still be able to no t glorify or discourage any of them to make the team more significant than the individual heroes. Roger Ebert compares the Avengers to the dogs in the Best in Show category at the Westminster Dog Club. You have breeds that seem wholly different from one another (Labradors, poodles, boxers, Dalmatians), and yet theyre all champions, says Ebert.He is right though the characters differ in many ways, they are all the same in that they have spectacular powers that they use to fight evil. This makes the team card work perfectly in this film. Never did one character seem to mean more to the group than any of the others (except for when Hawkeye was brainwashed to fighting for Loki, but once he returned, he was only when as much as part of the Avengers as anybody). The Avengers did not deviate playacting similar a team at first, but once they did, they managed to defeat Loki with relative ease.The message of the film is that it stresses the importance of teamwork. It shows that no matt er how keen the individuals in a group may be, they cant perform to their best abilities until they all start working together and use each other to bring out the best in themselves. The acting in The Avengers was fantastic all around. Those who were fans of the original Avengers comics (or the individual heroes comics) expect their idols to be portrayed accurately, and just just about every single one is done so to a great degree.Ruffalo, Renner, and Johansson do great arbitrator to their characters, and are very likeable and portrayed well. Ruffalo does a particularly good job in present his struggle to keep his cool so as not to transform into the Hulk. Hemsworth shows that apart from his fantastic affinity to the comic book character and his obvious good looks, he has the right idea as to what Thor is actually like. He is a god and a mighty warrior, but he knows he is not preceding(prenominal) anyone and go away protect the earth no matter what. Evans and Downey both fit their characters perfectly, and their attitudes are correct for who they play.Samuel L. Jackson does a great acting job in the movie. You cheer for him at times, and then despise him at others, which is incessantly impressive when a character can get that sort of reaction out of an audience. However, as great as his acting was, it seems as if the creators of the recent Marvel Comics movies wanted to put him in The Avengers somehow, so they stuck him in the role as Nick Fury. To Avengers fans, this could be slightly irritating. Clearly he looks nothing like the original character, and the original character never acted like Samuel L.Jackson, but now Nick Fury will be remembered always by many, many people as a Jackson-like character, which is frowned upon by fans of the comic book. A more accurate portrayal of Fury couldve been done by George Clooney, who is also a talented promoter and, when one compares the two, looks exactly like the character in the comic book. The textbook sa ys, There is the ever-present risk that all the peculiar(prenominal) effects in action, adventure, and science-fiction films will dazzle us but do little to increase our disposition of the world we live in or the drama of human life. (264). The Avengers relies heavily on the use of special effects and CGI to portray the heroes in action or the world itself, from the giant, levitating headquarters of S. H. I. E. L. D. to monsters only Ebert can describe as Lokis ginormous slithering, undulating snake-lizard-dragon machine, which seems almost to have a mind of its own and is backed up by absolute snakelings. Indeed, it would be impossible to show the same movie without as much CGI as was used to make it. However, the heavy amount of CGI doesnt take away from the acting and story of the ovie. If anything, it enhances the characters in not just a visual way, but it shows the viewer who the characters are and what they are truly capable of. In addition, the 3D format of The Avengers is a nice touch. For decades, comic book fans have enjoyed the adventures of the Avengers and have grown up in love with the heroes in the super group. A large scale movie featuring this group is what the fans have always desired. Each superhero received their own movie, building anticipation for the combining of these extraordinary people.Whedon made that combination happen, and the actors relate brought these heroes to life in grand style. Works Cited Barsam, Richard Meran. , and Dave Monahan. Looking at Movies An Introduction to Film. New York W. W. Norton, 2010. Print. Ebert, Roger. The Avengers. Roger Ebert. com. 2 whitethorn 2012. Web. 07 May 2012. . IMDb. The Avengers. Internet Movie Database. Web. 07 May 2012. .