The Avengers (2012):

Starring:

Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark / Iron Man

Chris Evans - Steve Rogers / Captain America

Mark Ruffalo - Bruce Banner / The Hulk

Chris Hemsworth - Thor

Scarlett Johansson - Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow

Jeremy Renner - Clint Barton / Hawkeye

Tom Hiddleston - Loki

Clark Gregg - Agent Phil Coulson

Cobie Smulders - Agent Maria Hill

Stellan Skarsgard - Professor Erik Selvig

Samuel L. Jackson - Nick Fury

Gwyneth Paltrow - Pepper Potts

Paul Bettany - Voice Of J.A.R.V.I.S.

Director:

Joss Weadon (Firefly, Buffy The Vampire Slayer; Cabin In The Woods)

Rotten Tomatoes: 93%

Flixster: 96%

Synopsis:

"Marvel's The Avengers"-the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.

Review:

Before I went & saw this one. My early thoughts on it was that "It's going to be Iron Man 1 & 2 Gang banging Transformers while Michael Bay masturbates in the corner". We'll I was only partially right. The movie does kind of feel like your watching Iron Man 3 because Stark is a main focus on the whole. Obviously all of Avengers play a major part in the film, but a lot of the major scenes involve something Iron Man is doing. This movie features the 3rd person to portray "The Incredible" Hulk in the last 10 years. First Eric Bana who may have been horrible, but it also may have been Director Ang Lee's fault. Then you have Edward Norton up second, who I actually thought did a good job of saving the franchise from the shitter. However apparently he's the world's most interactive diva actor & needed to be involved in every single tiny little detail that went on in the making of The Incredible Hulk. Thus why Weadon & others involved wanted to find someone else who wasn't going to be a major pain in the ass for this one. I think they made a really solid choice choosing someone without a major action role under his belt & someone with a good range of emotions (from all his chick flick movies) to play The Hulk in Mark Ruffalo. For the most part Hulk does steal the show. If you are at all familiar with the "Weadon-verse" then you know what to expect from this in the form of the mixing in of comedy & perfect comedic timing. I thought that it was pretty cool that they only needed one super villain to taken on all of the Avengers. Loki has a really incredible character back story & even if you never saw Thor you could still understand him from the amount of story being told. It has the same elements however of every action or super hero film that has come out since the early 2000's. Lots of all of the place camera angles, constantly having just random punches & attacks thrown all over the place at random attacking bad guys. A lot of cutting back & forth between the Avengers as they fight off cronies or attempts to stops something or do something. Does getting a little bit tiresome in general, not just in this one. Not AS Transformer'sey as I thought it would be, but at points towards the end of the film I defiantly felt like I had seen parts of it already because of the setting of the final battle & some of the events that happen during it. You also get an unrecognizable & uncredited Buffy & Angel cast member cameo in this one. Alexis Denisof (Wesley Windham-Price) playing The Other. I enjoyed the film all the way through, there wasn't any boring unimportant dialogue or slow moving scenes. It's a constant fast paced movie. As usual Robert Downey Jr. is incredible as Iron Man & his performance alone is worth seeing it.

81%

Lead Acting: 12/15

Supporting Cast: 13/15

Plot: 8/10

Compared To The Genre: 7/10

Cinematography: 17/20

Intrigue: 15/20

Extra: 9/10