“Avengers” Film Review

The Marvel Film Franchise is best known for their epic installments within the superhero film genre as they create their own little cinematic universe based around the Marvel comic book characters. The one thing that Marvel appears to have going good for them is how they can tell such enticing stories that are all connected to one another and create such a large universe of characters that it has most actors in Hollywood wanting to become a part of the cast. One of their fairly recent films to become a blockbuster Guardians of The Galaxy which is about a ragtag band of antiheros with no powers try to save the galaxy from conquest hungry alien that wants to destroy every planet that tries to defy him. However, this formula sounds very similar to another Marvel film that they probably used as a model for Guardians called The Avengers. The Avengers was Marvels first attempt have multiple protagonists in a film and it was great success with just a few minor flaws. Unlike some other films that attempted to have multiple leading roles like Spiderman 3 which due to poor character development led to its commercial downfall, The Avengers having already created in depth character development in each of the lead protagonists origin movies allowed for each heroes to develop further and create bonds with one another as they strive towards a common goal. While this gender friendly film having both male leads from Iron Man to Thor and female leads such as Black Widow had created an image for everyone to enjoy, and this idea was also transferred over into Guardians of The Galaxy having a mixed gendered cast, but unlike The Avengers, Guardians appears to have an greater appeal to the masses for it depicts that you don’t have to have powers to in order to be super you just have to be yourself and do the right thing every once in a while. As a whole the film The Avengers is for sure must have for any film buffs home cinema library with its stunning CGI and story to its almost perfect editing even to the lighting with its gel enhancements, so that it can have crisp high definition look. The film may not have any emotional flashbacks like Guardians did in order to create character and plot development, but instead it created a window of opportunity for Marvel as whole showing that they have the capability of creating an expanding universe. As film critic Tom Charity for CNN had stated “Never underestimate the entertainment value of the Hulk Smash” and this description couldn’t be any more accurate for it’s always a blast to watch if you enjoy the genre. If you ever have the chance to see the film in IMAX I would recommend it, but watching it at home is always just as entertaining.