Avengers Assemble (2012)
(The Avengers)
Country: US
Technical: col 143m
Director: Joss Whedon
Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson
Synopsis:
The commander of S.H.I.E.L.D. - an organisation to protect the Earth from armageddon - calls upon five officially blacklisted superheroes to rally round when the Tesseract, a cubic source of limitless clean energy, is stolen by Thor's disgruntled half-brother, Loki, and used to open up a portal for the marauding armies of Chitauri.
Review:
Amiable, jokey, but absurdly over-inflated comic book nonsense, whose centrepiece is a nailbiting set-to aboard an airborne aircraft carrier (sic), but which cannot of course sign off before it has staged the obligatory orgy of destruction in midtown Manhattan. The performances from the likes of Jackson and Downey Jr are noticeably constrained by the sheer size of the cast to be accommodated, and one's investment in characters with backstories already underwritten can only be diminished by their apparent invulnerability to terminal velocity falls, collapsing masonry, and all forms of mortal combat.
(The Avengers)
Country: US
Technical: col 143m
Director: Joss Whedon
Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson
Synopsis:
The commander of S.H.I.E.L.D. - an organisation to protect the Earth from armageddon - calls upon five officially blacklisted superheroes to rally round when the Tesseract, a cubic source of limitless clean energy, is stolen by Thor's disgruntled half-brother, Loki, and used to open up a portal for the marauding armies of Chitauri.
Review:
Amiable, jokey, but absurdly over-inflated comic book nonsense, whose centrepiece is a nailbiting set-to aboard an airborne aircraft carrier (sic), but which cannot of course sign off before it has staged the obligatory orgy of destruction in midtown Manhattan. The performances from the likes of Jackson and Downey Jr are noticeably constrained by the sheer size of the cast to be accommodated, and one's investment in characters with backstories already underwritten can only be diminished by their apparent invulnerability to terminal velocity falls, collapsing masonry, and all forms of mortal combat.
(The Avengers)
Country: US
Technical: col 143m
Director: Joss Whedon
Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson
Synopsis:
The commander of S.H.I.E.L.D. - an organisation to protect the Earth from armageddon - calls upon five officially blacklisted superheroes to rally round when the Tesseract, a cubic source of limitless clean energy, is stolen by Thor's disgruntled half-brother, Loki, and used to open up a portal for the marauding armies of Chitauri.
Review:
Amiable, jokey, but absurdly over-inflated comic book nonsense, whose centrepiece is a nailbiting set-to aboard an airborne aircraft carrier (sic), but which cannot of course sign off before it has staged the obligatory orgy of destruction in midtown Manhattan. The performances from the likes of Jackson and Downey Jr are noticeably constrained by the sheer size of the cast to be accommodated, and one's investment in characters with backstories already underwritten can only be diminished by their apparent invulnerability to terminal velocity falls, collapsing masonry, and all forms of mortal combat.