Ultimate Avengers: The Movie

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 6:25 am

I picked up my copy earlier in the week and finally got around to watching it. If you're a fan of:

The Avengers
The Ultimates
Captain America
Iron Man
Comic Books

Then I highly recommend this movie. The plot is heavily influenced by the first 6 issues of The Ultimates, but it is still different enough to keep those of us who've already read The Ultimates entertained.

I give this movie my highest recommendation.

I think this movie might actually get some new people to buy comics.

Post by **Best First** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:38 pm

and that is always a good thing.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:44 pm

Listen to the Smooth one. For he's got it down.

The movie truly does kick ass, it's sort of a mergere of the story from #1-6 of Ultimates, and some classic Avengers themes.

Now we just need to hold out for another 6 months until Ultimate Avengers 2.

If I'd have any requests for the next one, is that they could add 10 minutes or so to the movie, thereby giving some more detail to some things.

Darth Aux · Post by **Darth Aux** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:37 am

I wondered how this would be, thanks for the rview and I will buy a copy asap.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:13 pm

I thought the animation was horrible. And the story dumbed-down. I couldn't even finish it.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:27 pm

Oh well, that's too bad Sprunkner. I certainly didn't have any problems with the animation.

The script was obviously simplified however, of course.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:46 pm

Look at the way they ****in' walk! It looks like they all have leg injuries!

The thing is supposed to be PG-13, but I saw nothing in the first forty-five minutes that I wouldn't be comfortable watching with my nephew.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:19 am

Hmm, if it'll be as good as the Batman, Superman and JL cartoons were, there is hope yet form Marvel to produce some notable animation. I just gotten hold of the "old" Avenger cartoons, andm those suck major time.

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Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:09 pm

I just watched it about an hour ago.

Thought the story was... serviceable. Nothing brilliant, a very dumbed down and flat version of the first Ultimates arc, with aliens thrown in for no apparant reason. Pictures were pretty and the animation was fairly decent, if overly stylised.

I found myself drifting off to the idea of "now, if they put somebody not called Claremont in charge of Exiles and had them visit the Ultimate Marvel universe, with Bryan Hitch on art... that would be the fab."

It gets a 6/10.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:45 pm

Let me put it this way. I rewatched TF: TM after this, and found it was superior in every category. Especially animation.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:53 pm

sprunkner wrote:Let me put it this way. I rewatched TF: TM after this, and found it was superior in every category. Especially animation.

Totaly

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:33 pm

Hmm, watched it today. Mixed feelings - the animation was great, story OK I guess.

More liked it because I finally got to take Captain America seriously. I mean, a guy running around dressed in an american flag with a boomerang shield? I couldn't take him more seriously then Uncle Sam from DC's Freedom Fighters (now he"s hilarious...)

But here, his origins and powers are explained quite well, and he gots lot of character developement too.

Liked Nick Fury too - why on earth did they turn him into a white guy in the Spiderman toons? Darn Marvel keeps confusing me... Though I wonder why SHIELD keeps his 'secret' HQ in the middle of New York...

I never knew much about them, but I found Dr. Pym and Wasp to be quite cool and funny characters. Hope to see them again.

Bruce Banner got some great lines, his was the most dominant storyline in the movie. Though, I thought with the grey Hulk Bruce is in control? Yet the Avengers had a more difficult time defeating the Hulk then dealing with the aliens.

THor had little to do, but I liked his retcon, and his behavior - typical norse god. Being a Wagner fan, I like norse mythology. My only gripe is, isn't Mjolnir a hammer? Looked more like a hammer-battleaxe here...

OK, now the bad : Iron Man. I dunno what's he's like in the comics, but here, the writers went the extra mile to make him like Batman. I mean, he's an arrogant millionaire playboy playing superhero, he has a butler, he's hunted and disliked by the cops/SHIELD, and he often states 'I work alone' and tries to be grim. Problem? Batman had a motivation and he was the best at what he did. Tony Stark flew into some mines and got his identity exposed on his first mission. Lame...

The othe bad thing, the aliens... didn't really add much and weren't interesting adversaries. And I find it a bit funny that in both the Justice League and U. Avengers cartoons , the groups are formed because of an invasion by shape-shifting aliens. Except, JL had this plot first, and their aliens actually did something other then getting beat up.

All in all, if they did a series from this show, I'd watch it. I'd like to learn more from the Avengers. It was the JL cartoons that got me into the DC comics, maybe I'll pick up a few Marvel comics if Avengers becomes interesting.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:12 am

Well, the aliens were in the Ultimates comic that the cartoon is based on, and those Chitauri-aliens in turn were a modern variant of the old alien shape-shifting race/enemies of the Avengers/Fantastic Four called the Skrulls.

So there you have it.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:57 am

OK... as said I know really little about the Marvel Universe, save for X-men (of course...)

I thought the Skrulls were those alien guys looking like Green Goblin? These looked much different.

Btw, the aliens in the JL cartoon were based on the white martians from the DCU, though here they were not of martian origin.