Avengers Assemble!
So surely you’ve all seen this, right?
That’s a pretty solid trailer, but I find that I have to stop myself from being blase about the fact that they’ve actually gone and made an Avengers movie. I need to remind myself just how amazing and unbelievable it is that they have actually made a super-hero team-up film. I mean, ever since I was a kid, Marvel comic books have always been all about the super-hero team-ups, but to see that realized in a movie, done on this scale, is extraordinary. That they have taken the leads of four films — each huge or potentially huge franchises in their own right (Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Thor, and Captain America) and brought them together for one film is such a giddily never-been-done-before notion that I still find it hard to believe, even though in less than a year this will all be reality that we’ll get to see projected on theatre screens across the country.
As for the trailer? It’s pretty strong, and we get some fun glimpses of the heroes assembled. There’s a bit of wit on display, which is nice. This film should be tense (after all, the stakes need to be HUGE to warrant the bringing-together of all of these super-heroes), but it should also be fun. The mighty Joss Whedon is not only directing the film but he also wrote the script, so I have hope.
They did cut back to those explosions on a city street a few too many times in the trailer, I thought. The footage looks great, but I hope that whatever is going down on that city street isn’t the only major action sequence in the film. This movie needs to be BIG, and this trailer hasn’t quite sold me on the epic scale of the story. It feels a little small so far. (This might be because the trailer doesn’t really reveal much about the actual story of the film, so I’d imagine they’re still holding back on revealing too much of the good stuff at this early date.)
I’m also not quite sold on the re-worked costumes for Captain America and Thor. I thought the costumes for both characters worked really well in their individual films from last summer, largely because both outfits felt lived-in and had a certain gritty weight to them. But in this trailer (and the terrific teaser at the end of the end-credits of Captain America) both Cap and Thor seem to have shiny new outfits that look a bit too simplistic and “costumey” (for lack of a better word) to me. But I will withhold judgement until getting a better look. I will say that the new footage of Iron Man looks phenomenal.
I loved seeing Loki, I loved our first look at Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, I loved seeing what looks like a Quinjet, I loved seeing Samuel L. Jackson continuing to look bad-ass. I can’t wait to see Cobie Smuthers as Maria Hill, and I am hoping against hope we’ll get to see a helicarrier in the film. Most of all I can’t wait to see MORE. May 2012 can’t get here fast enough!
Tomorrow: Another great trailer that features the assembling of another great ensemble of heroes!