amiranda-39274
During the period of my childhood when i was finally getting into Marvel superheroes, before that i was a DC fan, mostly because of Batman and justice league unlimited, but after watching this movie, i converted to a full time Marvel fan. I never really read comics, i only watched cartoon shows and movies, so i dont have much knowledge on the ultimate comics this movie is based off of, only the opinion of a movie buff. First things first, this movie has a very generic plot, and i honestly forget what the whole story is about when the action starts, but the story is not why i like this movie so much. You will get sweeped up in the action, the movie starts off with a saving private Ryan beginning, with soldiers actually getting mowed down by machine guns! the movies action has very fluid animation in it, but in the middle, its nothing too special, in fact, the avengers fighting the invading aliens isn't even that great, but let me tell you when the avengers start to fight the hulk, it gets intense. Every punch, every tackle, and every painful scream feels real, its as if the best animation was saved for this last fight alone. i just want to comment on the animation, despite it still being 2d, there something strange about it , as if a little 3d was mixed in to make the characters and backgrounds look more realistic then a traditional 2d cartoon; everything pops in this movie. All the characters are very nicely designed, each looks exactly as the characters should look with a little originality, however i don't like iron mans look to much, he looks like he has a squirtle face for some reason, and clearly someone tried to make the black widow exaggeratedly sexy,( not like i have problem), she looks great in some parts, but in others she has like giant lips. I don't know why they didn't just make her look more like Betty and Janet, who were very great to look at, with their...ahem, " simpler" character designs. As for character development and personalities, everyone was very likeable, i liked that they gave antman a cocky, arrogant attitude this time. The voice actors were each perfect in this movie, the voices just captured the essence of each character, grey delisle did a great job as Janet. And as for Bruce banner, i gotta say this is the best depiction of him Ive ever seen, i really like how despite trying to do his job, he has some kind of depression and understandable struggle with controlling himself. In fact this movie really shows the effects the hulk has on his sanity and relationships, this is one of those times i really like Betty's interactions with Bruce and the hulk. Despite this being a good depiction of the avengers, there isnt much room for total character development, unlike the marvel franchise, but they still do a great job. i actually was expecting the live action avengers movie to be close to this, and i was kind of right, except because of all the previous standalone movies, i became attached to all the characters and understood their motivations way better. i like live action tony stark way better, because hes not afraid of anything( being played by Robert downy jr helps!), and doesn't need to hide his identity like in this movie, black widow is way better in the live action movies, mostly because of the absence of the Russian accent, but i really like captain America and her as a couple, and its ashame that's not present in the live action movies( Chris and Scarlett have great chemistry, whyyyy!). i however don't like the way, the hulk is portrayed as a completely mindless monster in this movie, and i prefer his live action version far better, but it is realistic, that in the heat of battle he would lose control and turn on his comrades, the live action movies did that great, but i like it when hes able to regain control. i kind of feel like instead of having Bruce subplot of making a way to control the hulk, they should have just had him wanting to get superpowers to impress Betty, and accidentally turn himself into the hulk instead, wouldn't have made much of a difference to the story. Overall this is a good superhero movie, and a good alternate version of the avengers, however i hate the sequel, it feels way too dark and makes the characters very unlikable, however this movie helped me discover the vastly superior show Avengers earths mightiest heroes, that i like a lot more than this movie.