ATTENTION; Comic book fans: Superhero season has officially returned. A few of Marvel's toughest heroes have finally joined forces on the silver screen as The Avengers bashes its way into theaters today.
The long awaited film adaptation of the popular comic and cartoon series features The Hulk, Ironman, Thor and a few other superheroes on a quest to save the world from the forces of evil.
Epic in scope and audacious in its execution, The Avengers is a product (make no mistake - it's more product than film) that lives up to every promise Marvel Studios has made since they launched their ambitious plan to bring their signature heroes together on the big screen when 2006's Iron Man debuted. Though the movie stumbles a bit out of the gate, director Joss Whedon rights this ship quickly, delivering a grand entertainment that will not only satisfy longtime devotees of the Marvel characters but the newly initiated as well.(Illinois Times)
Robert Downey Jr. continues his Iron Man role, and leads the pack of supercharged crimefighters as the witty billionaire Tony Starks.
The star is Robert Downey Jr. His Iron Man is certainly a team player, but Mr. Downey comes to the party with two insuperable superpowers: a character of established sophistication--the industrialist/inventor Tony Stark, a sharp-tongued man of the world--and his own quicksilver presence that finds its finest expression in self-irony. (He was much better in the first "Iron Man," but he's quite good here.) "The Avengers," which takes place in murky darkness for the first half-hour or so, begins to lighten up figuratively, if not literally, only when Iron Man appears and we see, on the lips of the man inside the red robotic rig, a faint smile that says "this is going to be fun." The fun in seeing his teammates lies mostly in watching them in action, although they quarrel comically among themselves at the outset like superdivas: "We're not a team," Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner says, "we're a time bomb."(WSJ Online)
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie and I plan to watch it again as soon as I am able to. This movie spent years in the making and was well worth the long wait. The Avengers is one of the best comic book movies I have seen and I am confident to say that it matches just about any other comic book adaptation. Yes, I mean even The Dark Knight. It's just a whole lot of fun and you can't go wrong with that. Good review J.
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