As typical in most super-hero movies, the world is once again in peril and in desperate need of salvation. The only ones able to help are the "special" people, gifted with abilities that could save the rest of us generally helpless, normal people when we can't save ourselves. This time around, the world is being attacked by Loki of Asgard, brother of Avenger Thor, as he tries to spread truth and freedom to the human race. Nick Fury of S.H.E.I.L.D., however, believes differently. According to Fury, we need soldiers to fight in this war . . . or in this case, super heroes, though technically Captain America is the world's first and only super soldier. Anyway, as Fury says,
"There was an idea to bring together a group of remarkable people, so when we needed them, they could fight the battles that we never could... " Thus, six extremely, extraordinarily talented people are brought in to work together to rescue the world without killing each other out of pride and anger before it's too late.
Loki, however, seems to be oblivious to the order he brought forth while trying to create war and chaos. In a conversation, Stark rightly says, "Let's do a head count here: your brother the demi-god; a super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend; a man with breath-taking anger management issues; a couple of master assassins, and YOU, big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of them." This maybe coming strictly from Stark's pride and arrogance, but he is correct.
"There was an idea to bring together a group of remarkable people, so when we needed them, they could fight the battles that we never could... " Thus, six extremely, extraordinarily talented people are brought in to work together to rescue the world without killing each other out of pride and anger before it's too late.
Loki, however, seems to be oblivious to the order he brought forth while trying to create war and chaos. In a conversation, Stark rightly says, "Let's do a head count here: your brother the demi-god; a super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend; a man with breath-taking anger management issues; a couple of master assassins, and YOU, big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of them." This maybe coming strictly from Stark's pride and arrogance, but he is correct.
Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff)
While Stan Lee's original Black Widow has the powers of being an exceptional, athletic, weapons-trained spy whose been exposed to the Super-Soldier-Serum, who changed her life to work with S.H.I.E.L.D.
In this movie, however, Black Widow only hints at her talents, mysteriously claiming that she as a "very specific skill set," implying that she can get information out of anyone by being sexy, coy, and a complete and total kick-butt spy.
Johansson did a wonderful job reprising this role, though I am basing this mostly on her stunts and the change in her hair, because in Iron Man 2, she could have been renamed Medusa. That was awful.
Captain America (Steve Rogers)
Rogers is the same good-old boy he was in Captain America, but his attitude has changed. He seems much more jaded, restless, and annoyed with the world, especially Tony Stark (Iron Man). Some of this frustration could come from Stark's patented sarcastic remarks such as "Everything special about you came out of a bottle." Then again, Stark could get on everyone's nerves -- Captain America gets the brunt of it becasue he is the leader of the Avengers and Iron Man has authority issues. At the same time, however, he is still obviously a man out of time, making comments like "Son of a gun" and "There's only one god ma'am and I'm pretty sure He doesn't dress like that."
Evans still makes a fantastic Captain America, but I still wish another actor got to be the Captain because Evans was the Human Torch in the Fantastic Four movies.
Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
Like Black Widow, Hawkeye is an extremely powerful and talented athlete specializing in acrobatics and martial arts as well as being an excellent bowman.
We don't get to see a lot of Hawkeye in this movie, but it's obvious that he knows what he's doing. Also, he's pretty to look at.
Incredible Hulk (Bruce Banner)
In this film, it appears that Banner was able to tame the beast inside because, as he reveals, his secret is that he is "always angry." It's also nice that he has a better attitude when dealing with Stark than Captain America. The first words Iron Man says to Banner is "It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster. " Banner laughs lightly and shrugs it off like it was no big deal.
Also, can we please keep Ruffalo as Hulk? I'm tired of all the switching around.
In this film, it appears that Banner was able to tame the beast inside because, as he reveals, his secret is that he is "always angry." It's also nice that he has a better attitude when dealing with Stark than Captain America. The first words Iron Man says to Banner is "It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster. " Banner laughs lightly and shrugs it off like it was no big deal.
Also, can we please keep Ruffalo as Hulk? I'm tired of all the switching around.
Iron Man (Tony Stark)
Robert Downey Jr. is back to play Tony Stark, the guy Captain America says is "all about style," while Stark claims to be a "genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist." That's all that needs to be said about RDJ's performance. This is his third time playing Iron Man and he's had that role perfectly covered since the first film.
He does, however, save the day by getting rid of the nuke, and nearly dies in doing so. Thankfully, however, he is jolted awake by the Big Guy yelling in his face.
"All right, hey! All right good job guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow, let's just take a day."
Robert Downey Jr. is back to play Tony Stark, the guy Captain America says is "all about style," while Stark claims to be a "genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist." That's all that needs to be said about RDJ's performance. This is his third time playing Iron Man and he's had that role perfectly covered since the first film.
He does, however, save the day by getting rid of the nuke, and nearly dies in doing so. Thankfully, however, he is jolted awake by the Big Guy yelling in his face.
"All right, hey! All right good job guys. Let's just not come in tomorrow, let's just take a day."
Loki (Loki)
Loki comes to Earth claiming that he is "burdened with glorious purpose" to bring freedom and truth to the world. He is stood up to by normal men as well, not just the super heroes because "there are always men like you," referring to famous dictators such as Hitler.
Banner is right in saying "I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats. You can smell crazy on him." Craziness, however, is acceptable because despite his lack of convention, he knows exactly how to take the Avengers down -- by making everything personal.
Crazy could also be counted as eccentric because "He wants to beat us and he wants to be seen doing it. He wants an audience. . . . That's just the preview, this will be opening night. Loki's a full-tilt diva. He wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a monument built in the skies with his name plastered . . . " just like Stark.
Loki comes to Earth claiming that he is "burdened with glorious purpose" to bring freedom and truth to the world. He is stood up to by normal men as well, not just the super heroes because "there are always men like you," referring to famous dictators such as Hitler.
Banner is right in saying "I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats. You can smell crazy on him." Craziness, however, is acceptable because despite his lack of convention, he knows exactly how to take the Avengers down -- by making everything personal.
Crazy could also be counted as eccentric because "He wants to beat us and he wants to be seen doing it. He wants an audience. . . . That's just the preview, this will be opening night. Loki's a full-tilt diva. He wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a monument built in the skies with his name plastered . . . " just like Stark.
Nick Fury (Nick Fury)
As Fury confesses to Loki, "You've made me a desperate man." Desperate enough to call in to-be-heroes to save the world based upon "an idea . . . called the avengers initiative. the idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people to see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could. Phil Coulson died still believing in that idea, in heroes." "They needed the push . . . they found it."
He is willing to take risks and disobey "stupid ass" orders because he believes in the Avenger team.
Samuel L. Jackson was made for this role. His attitude and persona fits easily into this role.
As Fury confesses to Loki, "You've made me a desperate man." Desperate enough to call in to-be-heroes to save the world based upon "an idea . . . called the avengers initiative. the idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people to see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to, to fight the battles that we never could. Phil Coulson died still believing in that idea, in heroes." "They needed the push . . . they found it."
He is willing to take risks and disobey "stupid ass" orders because he believes in the Avenger team.
Samuel L. Jackson was made for this role. His attitude and persona fits easily into this role.
Thor (Thor)
I can't say that I was excited about Thor's appearance. His film didn't impress me at all. In fact, I found it a bit . . . lame.
In this movie, however, Thor left a much better impression, which makes me think that it is not Thor that annoyed me, but the people who wrote, directed, and produced his stand-alone movie were full of epic fail, not Hemsworth.
I will say that Hemsworth makes a wonderful Thor. I love it. He looks the part and he can change his voice to match his body and role.
I can't say that I was excited about Thor's appearance. His film didn't impress me at all. In fact, I found it a bit . . . lame.
In this movie, however, Thor left a much better impression, which makes me think that it is not Thor that annoyed me, but the people who wrote, directed, and produced his stand-alone movie were full of epic fail, not Hemsworth.
I will say that Hemsworth makes a wonderful Thor. I love it. He looks the part and he can change his voice to match his body and role.
Personally, Iron Man and Hawkeye are my favorites. Tony Stark has the best dialogue out of anyone on screen because he is sarcastic, cynical, arrogant, and he rocks it. Hawkeye, on the other hand, is just nice to look at -- definitely not something I usually say or notice.
"You're missing the point! There's no throne, there is no version of this where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and maybe it's too much for us but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we'll avenge it! " - Tony Stark
Now we just have to wait for the second Avengers movie coming out in 2015.
Unfortunately, there does not appear to be another Hulk movie in production. But who can blame them? Hulk is mocked as a terrible movie. The Incredible Hulk didn't do much better, but it was better. But even Edward Norton couldn't continue with the role because, according to rumors, Norton wanted too much money for playing in the Avengers, so we're on Hulk #3 -- Mark Ruffalo.
All we can do is hope that Ruffalo can break the current streak and play Hulk for more than one movie. I hope he can, because, honestly, I'm tired of the constant switching and I enjoyed Ruffalo in this role.
THANK YOU JOSS WHEDON!!
Interesting side note . . . I could have been in this movie. Do you remember the random blond waitress trapped in the chaos going around New York City? That's Ashley Johnson. Her first big starring role was on Growing Pains as Chrissy Seaver, the youngest daughter. That could have been me. My aunt submitted my picture to the producers or whoever and they called back saying they wanted me for the role. Thankfully, however, my mom pulled me out of that. I like my life as it is without the fame or whatever. Plus, have you seen what happens to most child stars? It's not pretty.
Therefore, I could have received this role as well.
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