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Last night I was lucky enough to go to the premiere of the new Avengers: Age of Ultron movie, and now I'm here, giving my thoughts in a review. I'll try to keep this spoiler-free (except in the plot section) but if I can't manage that all spoilers will be marked.

Plot - WARNING: SPOILERS

THIS SECTION CONTAINS A DETAILED OUTLINE OF THE FILM. IF YOU DO NOT WISH FOR THE FILM TO BE SPOILED PLEASE SKIP TO THE NEXT SECTION.

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Soupperson1Legendary Brickipedian

91 months ago
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Yay, now it's my time to steal the spotlight from Brikky. :P Anyway thanks for letting me and Nova (or anyone else who isn't American) post our reviews here here.

The movie was a lot better than the first and somehow felt less crowded. I recommend everyone to see the film, even those who didn't like the first. The jokes are quite funny and the action scenes are good. The actors pull off amazing performances (those Russian accents are spot on).

Spoilers

  • Iron Man-Well him coming back wasn't explained at all. Could Hank Pym not have helped the science bros assemble Ultron? Iron Man wasn't at his best here.
  • Captain America-He was a good leader and I liked how he was stern, not everyone has to be constantly making jokes.
  • Thor-Thor was at his funniest here. He didn't have anything to do really and the bath scene was stupid. I'm all for a wet shirtless Chris Hemsworth but it didn't further the plot, it was shaky, and he could've easily had the vision another way.
  • Black Widow-Ugh. I hated her here. She was likable in Captain America the Winter Solider but here no. The romance was stupid and unneeded. I didn't like how she wanted to leave either.
  • Hulk-It was already established Bruce Banner now has the power to control the Hulk, but that went out the window here. I didn't like how he wanted to leave, surely when he rejoined the avengers he was convinced he isn't evil in hulk form. They should've reminded him after he got upset.
  • Hawkeye-He was likable here. His family was cute and it was nice how he kept it a secret from everyone besides himself. It was kinda funny he was injured straight way.
  • Scarlett Witch-Loved her, my favorite character by far. She had my favorite power, and she could be one of the most powerful avengers if she used it correctly. I liked how she was a bit overwhelmed yet she came over her fears. I liked how she avenged her brothers death and she did it powerfully. Elizabeth Olsen portrayed her perfectly and she deserves props for being less famous then her sisters but having a lot more talent.
  • Quicksliver-Who knew Aaron Taylor-Johnson was so hot? Seriously that accent suited him perfectly. :P The white, black and blue contrasted his skin perfectly. Okay enough fan girdling. I liked his catchphrase and it was so sad at the end. His death scene was so powerful. You kill off the second hottest member instead of Black Widow ;(
  • Vision-Didn't have a whole ton to do. Eh I guess he was okay. I like they're reasoning for his cape.
  • Ultron-Boring villian, I don't know why Marvel can't write a good one besides Loki.
  • War Machine-Yay he had something to do! It was very natural as well. It's going to be awkward in civil war since it will be War Machine versus Iron Man.
  • Falcon-Could he not have helped War Machine!? He did not deserve to be an avenger as he did nothing.
  • Maria Hill/Female doctor/Thor's scientist friend/Nick Fury-No need for these characters really. I'm glad they didn't die here as newcomers wouldn't care. I guess the actors did their best with the material they we're given. But why wasn't Linsday Lohan green lit for the roll of Maria, she auditioned and everything! :P
  • F.R.I.D.A.Y.-Eh was there a need for her? I think there could've been a better solution then resulting in a Siri wannabe.
  • Pepper/Jane should've been here
  • Plot-Eh it was a bit generic, we've seen robots taking over the world multiple times now. The character interactions were the best part and I love how it didn't seem over crowded.
  • Visions-The vision the characters had were stupid and they didn't seem like they're biggest fears.
  • Language-Yes it was pretty funny how they kept bringing it up. But the amount of kids who are going to know bad words after seeing this will be a ridiculous amount.
  • Jokes-They we're all funny but it made it more of a comedy then an action movie.
  • New Team-See Nova's comment.
Well thanks for reading. :3
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NovaHawkLegendary Brickipedian

91 months ago
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Nice review Soup, pretty much agree with you on everything there :)

The more I think about the Bruce/Natasha thing, the more I don't like it. I dunno, I liked the chemistry the Black Widow and Cap had in The Winter Soldier, seems like we won't be seeing anything like that anymore.

But why did you want to see Jane and Pepper but not see Hill and Fury? Jane and Pepper are pointless/boring/not relevant to the events, but the other two aren't :P
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Brikkyy13Outstanding Brickipedian

91 months ago
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Excellent review!

Anyway, 2 minor things in reply
1- having just gone to see the movie again, I paid a little more attention to the Russian accents and they do slip up from time to time (particularly Elizabeth Olsen)
2- If you think Ultron was boring and Loki wasn't, you're clearly living in another planet :P Loki is one of the most boring villains in movie history (second to the one in Die Hard 5), Ultron is amazing.
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BerrybrickLegendary Brickipedian

91 months ago
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Really? Even if you don't like Loki or find him boring there is much worse out there (including, yes, most Marvel movie villains).
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NovaHawkLegendary Brickipedian

92 months ago
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Nice review Brikkyy :) I didn't read the plot section, because, well, that's kinda pointless to me, because I may or may not have managed to go to a certain advance screening of this :P Anyway here's a review of mine, it's not quite so positive as Brikkyy's review, but still a solid 4-4.5 stars overall from me. (Brikkyy, if you feel like I'm hijacking your blog, please feel free to tell me to delete this comment :P)


Warning: the rest of this comment contains spoilers

The good
  • Right from the opening, it was hilarous. I did not see that first word of the film coming, followed by Cap's "Language", which became sort of a running joke :P The humour was still there from the other Marvel films, which is great. I like my superhero films lighthearted. The dark and dingy DC films bore me to death, I literally stopped watching the Batman vs. Superman trailer 3/4 of the way through (no, I'm not a DC hater, I love Arrow and The Flash).
  • The action scenes were all pretty well done, there were a lot of stunts and fight sequences there that we haven't seen in the previous films, and it was especially great to see some of those team-up attacks, which you would only get in an Avengers movie (as opposed to a standalone Marvel hero movie)
  • I guess I liked some of the softer moments with Natasha, both being "aunty Nat" and between both Banner and the Hulk. I don't get why she kept saying "the sun's getting really low" though :S
  • Vision. I'm liking what we've seen of him so far.
  • Scarlet Witch. She was fairly minor and not too amazing in this film, but I think she has potential to be a pretty cool character in the future.
  • Quicksilver dying. I didn't like him. Ok, that's not completely true. It's not that I don't like him, it's just that I didn't find him to be an interesting character, and I think a slot on the Avengers team could be filled by someone better. I'm wondering if they did some sort of deal with Fox? Fox gets the cool/funny Quicksilver but Wanda's just a kid who appears for a couple of seconds and has no mention of powers, while Marvel gets the Scarlet Witch but only has Quicksilver for one film? Or maybe Marvel just knew they'd have an extremely hard time competing with Fox's Quicksilver so didn't really try to. Either way, killing him off was a great move, like Brikkyy said, his death definitely had an impact (on me at least) at the end of the film.
  • The big changeup- switching four Avengers is a big move, but I like it. It'll keep things interesting. And although we only saw them for a few seconds, I'm loving the Falcon and Scarlet Witch Avengers costumes. Also, unlike Iron Man and the Hulk, Thor and Hawkeye will almost inevitably be back on the team once Hawkeye renovates his house and Thor decides to come back to Earth.
The bad
  • This would be the only big negative from me. I'm sorry, but I just don't buy the whole Ultron thing. Making a random artificial intelligence from Loki's sceptre, and then deploying it straight to Stark's whole system (which is linked to the rest of the entire world via the Internet) without even testing it out in a small isolated environment first? No. That just wouldn't happen. Yes, we've seen that Stark's daring, likes to try things out first (like taking his Mark 2 suit out of a test flight instead of waiting for Jarvis to run diagnostics in the first Iron Man film). But I just don't find it even remotely believable that Stark and Banner would be so dumb as to get a super-complex AI they don't even understand and give it full access to their systems.
  • Why is Tony Stark even in the Avengers still? This isn't explained at all. He gave up on being Iron Man at the end of Iron Man 3, now he's back, and making a stack of suits again? Why did he go and blow all his suits up if all he did was rebuild them?
  • I didn't read any spoilers beforehand, but there was nothing in there that really surprised me. I like twists or things I don't see coming, or maybe even a slightly more complex story. I dunno. The overall plot just seemed a bit predictable to me to be completely honest.
  • Those scenes where they all had visions. I dunno, they just seemed overly long and a bit of a waste of screen time. I still don't really get why Thor needed Selvig either.
  • While I did enjoy the fight scenes, at times, it did feel like I'd seen it all in the first film- a big unbeatable faceless army going up attacking a team head-on. A lot of the plot just felt a bit repetitive at times.
  • F.R.I.D.A.Y (J.A.R.V.I.S.' replacement AI for Iron Man). I had problems making out what she was saying at times, I never had that problem with Jarvis. I think Friday's an older system so the voice quality wasn't meant to be as good as Jarvis, but still... although maybe it was just my hearing :P
  • Those Hawkeye scenes. I don't dislike Hawkeye, and I think his character majorly improved in this film. But it's like they were trying too hard to make people think that Hawkeye was an important and worthy member of the Avengers. I just think they were overselling him a bit much. And, he still comes off as being vastly inferior to the rest. I think they need to work on him, make him a bit better somehow, he just seems like a dude running around kinda aimlessly with a bow and arrow while all the other Avengers are off being awesome. He needs to be more like Oliver Queen in Arrow- not his personality, but I think the way he fights needs to be a bit more aggressive and cool-looking.
  • That kid that resulted in Quicksilver's death. Seriously, what a dumb kid. Everyone's running for the rescue ships, and he's just sitting in the rubble doing nothing? He wasn't even trapped under anything. I would've bought that scene if he was trapped, but he wasn't. What was his problem? It's like he was asking to be killed. Hawkeye should have just left him there.
  • The mid-credits scene. Boooooring.
  • No post-credits scene. There was none. I hate credits. And because it was a Marvel movie, I watched them. For no reason.


Anyway, all in all, a great movie, probably about what I was expecting though. It wasn't as good as the first one to me- not because it wasn't the same quality as the first one, but that whole first-time superhero team up in the first Avengers was such a huge event. These days, multiple superheroes in a movie is just kinda taken for granted. But I would still definitely recommend seeing it. I'm sure it'll still be the second-best film of the year.
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Brikkyy13Outstanding Brickipedian

92 months ago
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Good review :)

Note: the kid wasn't trapped under anything, he couldn't climb out :P You'd think that his mother would make sure he's with her before she boards the lifeboat thing.
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Soupperson1Legendary Brickipedian

91 months ago
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Nice review

I didnt notice Scarlet Witch had a new costume, I only notice she dyed her hair, :P

Plus kids aren't exactly active before they're doom, Hawkeye had to save him.
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NovaHawkLegendary Brickipedian

91 months ago
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Eh, still, it didn't seem like the kid was convincingly trapped to me :S

@Soup: Scarlet Witch dyed her hair? :P You must have been looking at the top half of the screen and I was looking at the bottom :D

However, I take back everything bad I said about Hawkeye :D
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ToaMeikoHonorable Brickipedian

92 months ago
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When I went to see Furious 7 again today with a friend after class, I saw a trailer for it that looked really good. Only thing I don't like about the trailer is Hulkbuster vs Hulk... Basically doesn't fit in with the rest of the trailer imo. I'll probably see this movie at some point though.
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BrickfilmNutBuilding Bigger

92 months ago
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You've done a pretty good job so far at convincing me that I want to see this movie. :P Not sure I'll get the chance to, though.
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BerrybrickLegendary Brickipedian

92 months ago
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