Marvel Studios presents in association with Paramount Pictures “Marvel’s The Avengers” — the superhero team-up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel superheroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.1
I really loved the first Avengers movie. It was a really fun watch, and it was the first Marvel movie to bring all their main characters together, which was really cool to see. Not many movies ever have big crossovers with characters from different movies, and even though I was only 2 in 2012, I can guess it was a really big deal that characters from all these popular movies came together in one.
I also really like how the heroes clashed and didn’t automatically get along. All of the movies these characters were introduced in had very different attitudes toward them, and none of these people really had the same background or values, which left a lot of room for them to disagree, which they did. I was excited to see how Tony Stark and Steve Rogers would get along, since they had such different morals, and the movie showed just how different they are in this movie and future ones. They eventually work together and do it well, effectively saving New York City from the Chitauri and capturing Loki.
The continuity in this movie is also a really good addition. This movie combined the stories of 5 different high-grossing movies into one, and no series of movies had ever done that so successfully. It pulls so many elements from Iron Man 1 & 2, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger, and creates a movie where they all have to find a way to work together against a common enemy.
A character I really like in this movie is Natasha Romanoff, or Black Widow. She was first introduced in Iron Man 2, but her character was much more developed in this movie. She did a lot more than just spy on Stark, and I liked how much more we got to see of her skills. My favorite scene of hers in this movie is when she tricked Loki into telling her his plans for using the Hulk, and we got to see her deception in real time.
Bruce Banner also had a different actor for this movie, going from Edward Norton to Mark Ruffalo. I’ve never seen The Incredible Hulk, but I did like Norton’s acting from the clips that I have seen. Ruffalo does a really good job depicting Banner, though, and I like the choice to recast.
My favorite part of this movie has to be the script and overall feel. Even with the interdimensional threat and internal fighting with the Avengers, the whole movie was just really fun and lighthearted, especially when compared to a movie like Captain America: The First Avenger, which came right before it.
Overall, The Avengers (2012) is a really good movie, and a great introduction to The Avengers as a group. It did a great job meshing these very different characters together and added more depth and background to them. I recommend this movie to anyone who likes superheroes or Marvel.
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