Media: Cinematic release.
Before we go any further, let's make one thing clear... this is not the film with Ralph Hiennes and Uma Thurman... If you want to read about that, go here, otherwise continue reading.
Marvel's version of The Avengers would have to be one of the biggest films in history, now drowning in almost $1.5 billion US worldwide... At the time of this review, the value had reached a whopping $1,492,215,000... the mind boggles at just how big this is...
With three film franchises furiously knitting themselves together with a number of other characters, Marvel's The Avengers is a gestalt... it's greater than the sum of its parts... and for all intensive purposes one of the biggest films ever. The year 2003 saw the somewhat tatty performance of the original "Hulk" movie starring Eric Bana... A good testing ground for the Avengers' greenest member... Then came Edward Norton's performance which seemed a little more homage-worthy to Bill Bixby's portrayal of Bruce Banner, back in 2008. All very well and good, you may think, but who ends up getting the role of The Hulk? Our green friend is re-cast a third time by Mark Ruffalo, who to be perfectly honest, seems to fuse the seriousness from Eric Bana, and the simplicity of Edward Norton to create an amalgam of what the Hulk should really be. Adding Lou Ferrigno to voice the Hulk in this film has made this worthy of including the Green Machine.
Iron Man also came around that same year, resurrecting Robert Downey Jr's career and life all in the one hit. RDJ's ability to channel Tony Stark's character time and time again with perfection just oozes assurance without any shadow of doubt that he is the ideal person for the role. Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans respectively marking their territory as strong contributors to the Avengers film as Thor and Captain America show that their characters will be forever immortalized as these two Marvel characters for years to come, though it does raise the question as to whether Chris Evans will still be reprising his role as The Human Torch in any future Fantastic Four films. The ever sexy Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow is also present from her role in Iron Man 2, and The Bourne Legacy's Jeremy Renner carries on his role as Clint Barton (aka Hawkeye) from the Thor movie, and Samuel L. Jackson reprises his role as SHIELD director, Nick Fury, who has appeared in all of the Avenger films to varying capacities.
The film basically revolves around the dynamic of all the members to work together to fight off the forces of Loki's army, who has recently acquired the Tesseract and intends to rule Earth with it... Of course the Avengers Initiative is activated and the awesomeness begins... In fact, this entire film is just bursting at the seams with pure awesomeness, and filled with extra tidbits such as Tim Hiddelston reprising his role as Loki, charming up the scenes once more... and more abitious than ever to rule the Earth. Clark Gregg also shows up once more as SHIELD's Agent Phil Coulson and Gwyneth Paltrow as a slightly blonder Pepper Potts... (what was the go there?) Cobie Smulders is Agent Maria Hill, who seems more like a ramped-up and sexy personal assistant with combat skills... and Paul Bettany takes up the helm once more as JARVIS, the AI for Stark's Iron Man suit.
I enjoyed this film immensely, and despite a few slight disappointments... One which is a major spoiler, so I can't mention it here... but seemed necessary to advance the film along; but nevertheless, the film seriously kicked ass. The dynamic of this team trying to work together is hilarious because of the number of egos these characters possess, but it all settles down in the end. This film has rightly earned its 5-star rating, and I can't wait for pay-day so that I can buy the damn Blu-Ray which only just came out on sale a week ago!
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