The first big Summer blockbuster, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, was released last Friday to theaters across America. There were high hopes for the film, and this reporter can certainly declare that those hopes were completely fulfilled.
Following a team of superheroes such as Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans) and many more through a series of exciting and fast paced adventures, the film does an excellent job at engaging the audience and keeping their attention throughout estimated 2 hour and 30 minute running time. The film’s main antagonist is Ultron (James Spader), an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) unit that goes rogue and is bent on destroying the world.
While the setup isn’t that different from other superhero movies (typical good guys, typical bad guys, and lots of explosions), I personally found the interaction between the superheroes to be the most entertaining aspect of the entire movie. While the action scenes are great and the CGI is absolutely incredible, watching Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, and the rest of the Avengers Team attempt to lift Thors Hammer (which can only be lifted by Thor himself) with constant witty banter was absolutely hilarious.
Many moments such as this pop up throughout the course of the film, which is what makes this movie so different from other super hero movies. While Marvel expands on these characters in their own separate films, fighting their own separate arch enemies, on their own separate worlds in some cases, combining all of these personalities into one movie certainly creates something that is not only entertaining, but quiet historical too.
Movie crossovers have never really hit it off in Hollywood. These types of movies just don’t seem to work or they always seem to be done I a lacking manner. Crossovers that do seem cool, also seem outright ridiculous. Audiences were never treated to a “Star Trek”/”Star Wars” combined film and that sounds like a pretty cool idea. The Avengers succeeds in this type of film where others do not or could not. Which is something many are appreciative of when, after four years of waiting, they were finally able to walk into the theater and watch Iron Man fight The Hulk, Thor fly fight giant robots, and Captain America lead his team of extraordinary Herod to victory.
