Just a quick post to recommend the new
Avengers movie, Age of Ultron. My family and I went to see it last
night. All of us left fully satisfied, except for the one thing. Take
my warning, don't wait until the end of the credits to get a final
scene. Half the theater audience waited for the last funny scene.
Someone even yelled out as the rest started to leave, “It's not
over.” We all groaned when the last thing before a dark screen was the print printed words :
the Avengers will return. There was a bit of grumbling as people
filed out of the theater, but we got over it quickly, because the movie had
been great.
I'm not a big fan of the
how-many-expolsions-can-you-pack-in-a-minute style of movie. Marvel
movies tend toward this genre, but sometimes the plot and characters
are worth sitting through the whole explosion per heartbeat movie. I've
refused to attend some Marvel movies because the plot and character
development are too thin.
I think the Avengers are worth the
explosion count I have to wait through. Age of Ultron in particular
worked for me. I feel like I got to know some of the characters far
better in a one movie than I did in several of the others. Hawkeye
was a character I felt had previously been flat and annoying, even
though I wanted to like him because he's an archer. Well, this movie
changed that. I won't share how. No spoilers.
Age of Ultron introduced several new
characters effectively without compromising the plot and character
development of the other characters. That's hard to do in the short
space of a two hour and twenty-two minute movie. Kudos to Joss Whedon, the
director, but we are coming to expect no less from him. He's put out
so much good material in the past.
The language isn't always clean, but it
is a PG-13 movie about war and fighting. So I recommend this movie for family viewing if you're not concerned about comic book level violence and language.
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