CAUTION: The review contains spoilers. So read it only if
you have already seen the movie or plan not seeing it at all!!
So, apparently Avengers took 6 odd years to complete. So,
was all the money, time and sweat of people that went into making Avengers
worth it? Does the movie stand up to the hype and hoopla surrounding it? And does
the movie justify - me spending so much money to it in the
theatres..?? The answer to all these questions is a resounding
"YES"!!
First and foremost,
Avengers gives you Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Hulk, Black Widow and
that guy who is really good with the bow and the arrow, Clint Barton. There's
also Nick Fury and his merry band of SHIELD agents. And then there's the super
villain Loki! So many superheroes and others just for the price of one!! The
effects are mind blowing and the story doesn't suck either!!
Let's start with the script. It is well scripted. Every
Super-hero has been given equal screen time. The villain looks notorious
enough. The scenes are well shot. The dialogues are comical. There's the
customary tension between the super heroes when they first meet each other.
Moving on to the actors, Robert Downey Jr., I salute thee
for the rendition of the Iron Man and even more for Tony Stark, the smart
talking, playboy billionaire when the armour suit is taken away!! Infact he's
more funny when he's not inside the armour suit. One of the most iconic lines in the
movie comes from Robert Downey Jr. when he says "We got Hulk"! He's funny throughout the movie and he's the
one who holds it together!!
Chris Evans as Captain America is for me very vanilla. A lot
of scope was there to make him more entertaining, after all he has woken up
after 70 odd years. How was he coping up trying to adapt to this new world? He
just does the strategizing and keep saying Soilder and Ma'am.
Chris Hemsworth as Thor sounds Australian throughout the
movie. He does what he is supposed to do as the super villain is a brother he
is trying to take home. The fight sequence between him, Iron Man and Captain
America is really good. Also same is the case of his fight against Hulk.
Scarlett Johansson does what she does best - Looks HOT!!
Jeremy Renner tries really hard to cement his place in the
starting line-up of super heroes and he does fairly well too. But falling to
the super villain in the very beginning and then getting beat up by a girl
doesn't really add up to a super hero.
And then there's Mark Ruffalo as the HULK!! And for me, he
or let's say the computer generated green version of him was the surprise
package of the movie. The Hulk was funny every time he was on-screen. The
biggest cheers in the theatre were for him. The scenes in which he punches
Thor, just for fun and the way he manhandles Loki were really really funny.
Now a word for Tom Hiddleston. The british actor plays an
awesome super villain who is a match for all the 6 super heroes combined.
Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury is solid. But what
disappointed me the most was Cobie Smulders in a very insignificant role as
Fury's sidekick! She has been wasted!!
Joss Whedon who is the director surely knew how to make an
epic!
Hope who ever watched the movie stayed till the very end.
There's an extra scene after the
credits. There's definitely going to be Avengers - 2. And I will be waiting for
it!!!!!!!!
But before that The Dark Knight Rises....
