For years of waiting and the exponential amplification of legions of Marvel fans in the process of production, 'The Avengers' is at the state of its fame where the screams and cheers could not go less deafening. I, too, can consider myself as one of the people anticipating the humongous Marvel event--that has been indirectly endorsed in almost all of the Avenger hero films ('Incredible Hulk'; 'Iron Man'; 'Thor'; 'Captain America'). In the gigantic-scale, evidently the biggest, Marvel film yet, the interest of the fans, no, the crowd went nuts when they figured (yes, you can count me in) Joss Whedon is directing. For a guy who made 'Toy Story' tear-jerking, 'The Avengers' seemed to be on good hands no less.
'Avengers' sparkles right there, to its starkest gleam with its dialogue and authentic humor and lives manic energy with ginormous set pieces, like the quantum of gamma of Tesserac.
Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), head of the Intelligence Division called S.H.I.E.L.D. went for a wrong move when they dove miles down the ocean for a cosmic cube called Tesserac. The cube holds almost unstoppable gamma energy and is inexplicably and maybe magically transporting Asgardians, living in their own space and time, to ours. Worse things happen with the sudden appearance of Loki (Tom Hiddleston, perfect villain, besides Joker) who steals the cube to open a portal favorable to extraterrestrial-ish species come down on earth for some doomsday rehearsal. Automatically, Fury builds a group of "remarkable people" to put this plan to a red light.
One-by-one S.H.I.E.L.D. earns an "avenger". The Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) their resident spy, and Bruce Banner or Incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) is picked up from a medical mission, or business, within the slums. Stark is Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr., now more pleasant than ever) and Sgt. Steve is Captain America (Chris Evans), we all know that people. Thor is Chris Hemsworth who has unspoken sentiments towards his demigod brother. While Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) is under compulsion of a Loki spell. The group of "remarkable people" must merge into one team, or otherwise it's our world that's at stake.
For an all-star cast, which is automatically intensely troubling to balance, Whedon seemed to know how to distribute shine to each of them evenly. Like what he does among the characters, he also sets out balance to the movie, collectively. One minute it is all-action and so riveting and along the way satiric sense is visible and the next minute you'd applaud the remarkably written dialogue that features humor of authenticity. That sense of balance stays right there consistently, and then exponentially increases intensity which decides the movie as an entertaining and infectious one.
As the conflicting well-written and stayed-to-themselves characters stayed in one room, the energy just blows up the roof and it almost shadows, in a good way, the refined and beautifully detailed 3D effects. Tom Hiddleston as Loki is never letting the film down and Hulk just got more awesomeness to offer--forgetting that I'm running a blog here, and terms like: "awesomeness" might be one for the lacking of eloquent and fluent words. Robert Downey, Jr. now even energetic is well, energetic, and funny, and lovable.
Lovable. All of the characters were lovable and in fact when Agent Phil Caulson (Clark Gregg) dies, it just breaks my heart. The action stunts were visually stunning. There are scenes when the crowds will just go, "whoa!", for exemplification, a scene in which Hulk catches Iron Man and slides down in an n-number of floors-story-building.
Visually impressive, verbally shining and collectively awesome. Those were the exact words I'd like to describe 'The Avengers'--a film for the Marvel aficionados and the ones that are not.
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