Over Memorial Day Weekend I took some time to remember our country's greatest heroes...the Avengers!(especially Captain America!) Yes I finally got around to seeing it and it was awesome. It was action packed and hilarious. The only thing possibly better than Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark is James Spader as Ultron, seriously the dude should get an Oscar. My favorite gag(that I'm still laughing about days later) is how in the opening sequence Captain America says "Watch your language" and everybody makes fun of him for it for the whole movie. Another interesting tidbit,with all the CG around Ultron and the Hulk, surprisingly the CG motion capture master himself Andy Serkis appears in the flesh for once as a vibranium smuggler from Wakanda. Geeks will recognize Wakanda as the home of the Black Panther, a nod to a future movie. My only complaint: why does everybody use theri real names and never the more recognizable superhero names? Especially Hulk, who is usually referred to as "the other guy" we know who Bruce Banner's other side is, just say it for crying out loud.
This movie beins with the avengers working to help Thor retrieve the scepter of Loki which holds one of the Infinity Stones which were mentioned in Guardians of the Galaxy and it is revealed that some other stones have already appeared which means...wait, I'm getting way ahead of the story, let's back up. The Avengers have tracked the scepter to Sokovia, one of those generic Eastern European countries that is one nuke away from oblivion. As the team zeroes in on the Hydra base we meet the Maximoff twins, Wanda and Pietro, A.K.A. Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver respectively. They are working for Hydra and are supposed to stop the Avengers, but then Wanda messes with Stark's head and the mission ends up being successful-except that now Tony has an idea to use the stone to complete an A.I. project he calls Ultron. The idea is that the A.I. is supposed to protect the Earth so the Avengers don't have to, and since this particular stone is the Mind Stone which holds a mind, or rather an A.I. it seems the final piece to the puzzle. However, there's a misunderstanding in Ultron's programming and he thinks he's supposed to protect the Earth by getting rid of the Avengers. Ultimately Ultron's rason for being the villain is the world peace paradox that conflict can truly only be eliminated if there's nobody left to have conflict. Wanda can read minds, but she can't read Ultron because he's a machine so she and her brother work with Ultron to seek vengeance on the Avengers(the Maximoff family was destroyed by a Stark Industries bomb). Ultron seeks perfection by creating an organic body for himself, but as he begins to download his conciousness into the new body, it becomes a mind that Wanda can read and she reaizes he will destroy everybody. Now the twins and the Avengers have to work together to stop Ultron. Predictably they do save the day, but they look so awesome doing it. One last spoiler, the Vision comes in toward the end and plays a key role, and it was awesome seeing him in action. The reason I like the Vision is because back in my day, there was an Avengers video game which featured Captain America, Iron Man, Hawkeye and the Vision, which means that for the tail end of this movie, that team was actually together on screen, bringing to life something that was over twenty years in the making.
Now Marvel fans know there's way more coming in the next few years, and seriously, the next Avengers will be huge. In addition to the Avegners we already know from this movie, Ant-Man and the Fantastic Four are definitely happening which adds more candidates to the roster, as well as Black Panther when they pull that together, and Agents of Shield has also introduced Deathlok and Quake who could also join the Avengers roster, I know Quake was one in the comics which means Skye may make a jump to the big screen. Yes, Marvel fans, this movie was good, but it's only the tip of the iceberg.
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