It must have taken years to prepare something like The Avengers so the expectation was high but the result was up to it. Remember there was a post-credit scene in Iron Man? Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) is approached by Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson), Director of Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistic Division aka S.H.I.E.L.D about a project called The Avengers Initiative. Later:
The Incredible Hulk (2008): Stark introduces the idea of putting a team together.
Iron Man 2 (2010): Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) finds Thor’s hammer and reports to Fury. In the film, Coulson tells Stark he is reassigned somewhere in New Mexico, the small town the Asgard demi god landed when he first came to earth.
Thor (2011): Fury shows the Tesseract to Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard). Selvig's skills are needed to work on developing that source of energy. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) was there too.
Captain America, the first Avenger (2011): Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) wakes up in 2010 and Nick Fury announces he's part of the team.
Good to know:
Captain America was the result of a lab experiment conducted by Dr Abraham Erskine and Howard Stark, Tony’s daddy.
It was Howard Stark who discovered the Tesseract after Red Skull died (Captain America, 2011).
Hawkeye appeared briefly in Thor.
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| Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) |
WE WANTED IT, WE GOT IT
The main pieces are all there. At first, the Avengers Initiative was abandoned but the file had to be reopened as our dream team is needed to prevent Loki from starting a war to destroy Earth.
I haven’t seen such remarkable action film lately so of course, the Avengers delivers. The music, the fast-paced action, the dialogue and the humour entertain and the interaction between the characters is perfectly performed. Add the scenes when they fight to each other (Thor/Iron Man, Thor/Hulk, Hawkeye/Black Widow, etc.) and you’ve got the ingredients that makes of this a well-packed piece of work How Hulk put Loki down was the most particularly hilarious one. As for the cast, Jeremy Renner is Clint Barton, Cobie Smulders, the heroine of How I met your Mother plays Agent Hill and Mark Ruffalo (not Edward Norton) joins the team, how wonderful he is when he turns green, huge and angry.
The only thing I regret is that no film about Hawkeye or Black Widow has been made for the Avengers project. Whatever is going on between Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) and Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) needed to be developed but hey, the film already runs for two hours and a half so this is perhaps a subject for the sequel.
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| Cobie Smulders as Agent Hill |
Memorable quote
Nick Fury: There was an idea - Stark knows this - called the Avengers Initiative). The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, see if they could become something more, see if they could work together so when we needed them, they could fight the battles that we never could.
Funny quote (among others)
Stark: When they come, and they will come, they’ll come for you
Loki: We have an army
Stark: We have a Hulk
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