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A blast from the past will help save mankind's future.

  • Oct 30, 2011
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Towards the end of World War II, Steve Rogers aka Captain America seemingly dies trying to destroy a nuke. He falls into the ocean and becomes frozen, left in a state of suspended animation. More than 60 years later, he's found by an anti-terrorist organization called S.H.I.E.L.D. lead by Nick Fury. Rogers is saved and re-awakened to lead a team of super-powered beings called the Avengers. -summary

Back in 2000 Marvel decided to become a bit more innovative with their comic book characters. This brought to life the Ultimate Marvel Universe, which featured their characters with sometimes altered origins, and even sometimes altered abilities. For example, Spider-Man no longer required web-shooters, because his webbing was actually created by his body and fired from the wrist. Several of these changes were pretty cool and it added another aspect to their characters. The Avengers would also go through this change and be renamed into the Ultimates. The Ultimates featured edgier story-lines, yet it once again tackled themes that were addressed at some point in the original Marvel Universe. Released in 2006, Ultimate Avengers - The Movie is based on the Ultimates comic series. However, it feels a bit watered down from the comic, as it's nowhere near as violent or deep. This is something that will only bother serious fans, while casual fans will see just another superhero movie with some cool action filled moments at times.

Visually, I think the movie is about average, and yes I am comparing it to DC animation, in which the aforementioned company was running the superhero animation scene, and in my view, are still pretty much running it only not as strong as before. The animation delivers some really cool battle segments, and viewers will get to see Captain America in action, as well as the Hulk go on a big rampage. There are some shoot outs between man and alien, and the aliens battle with some type of laser fire. These battles look alright, but I won't consider them anything special.

The character designs resemble their comic counterparts rather well, however, fans of the classic characters will quickly notice the difference from the Avengers they grew up with. The production values really aren't that good all around, due to the average voice acting. The voice actors appeared to fit well with the characters; still, I just couldn't help notice that no one truly stood out to me.

The plot follows the heroes trying to combat the alien menace, as they plan a big offense against the planet. Captain America must get the team on the same sheet of music, which is far easier said than done. While Bruce Banner tries to work on an antidote to control the Hulk, and keep from going on very destructive rampages.

I think the writing was pretty good here, and there's a good amount of character development with Captain America being the stand out here. He's forced to somehow deal with this brand new world, and everything he ever knew has vanished, and most of the people he knew have passed on. There are attempts to developing the other characters, however, I didn't find any as interesting.

The problems I have with the movie although I was entertained,was in the lack of a serious threat. The aliens really didn't do anything for me, and I kind of think the writers knew something like this would happen, which is why they prepared for it. Still, due to this, I found the plot to be kind of weak in a way. I also never liked the idea of going with the two names "Ultimate" "Avengers". Only the fans truly know what the "Ultimate" means, while old time Avengers fans may come into this looking for the classic Avengers they grew up reading, and they will be mad as hell seeing a lot of these changes. They're not going to know what to make of it, and the title seriously comes off plain misleading.

Overall, Ultimate Avengers - The Movie is a decent title. There's some violence and even onscreen deaths; nothing too out of hand I would say. I mainly recommend this to serious superhero fans. Just don't come into it hoping to be blown away. The movie has a 72 minute run time.

Pros:
-Pretty entertaining for what its worth, some good action

Cons:
-Doesn't feel like anything special, voice acting

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November 06, 2011
I enjoyed this one of course, not the best but good, you seen the second one yet?
November 06, 2011
I been planning on reviewing the second one but other things been jumping in the way.
 
October 31, 2011
So far, Marvel hasn't really delivered much that I've liked in terms of animation except for a few series back in the '90s. Part of the problem is the cast, as you mention, who often give very bland vocal performances. Another issue is that the animation has become a bit too stylized and kiddie like (I blame Disney for this).
October 31, 2011
Sounds like to me you haven't seen the Avengers TV series. I think you need to pick that up. The voice acting is a lot better there, and I think the show is in the same league as Justice League and far, far, better than X-Men in terms of action and story.
 
October 30, 2011
This had me excited since this was the first full-length Avengers movie made but after multiple viewings, it started to lose a lot of its charm with me. It lost some of its intended darkness to keep it a little more fitting for viewers. It did a decent job on developing and introducing the characters though, and that is important. I have an old review of this somewhere, but I need to retouch and rewrite since it feels very amateurish at the time...nice one. I liked the second one I think...
October 30, 2011
It did lose something in the translation from comic to film, like many things do. But it just had an average feel to it. I can't exactly remember my feelings for the second one either, and I don't plan on re-watching it any time soon.
 
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Ultimate Avengers (also known as Ultimate Avengers: The Movie) is a direct-to-DVD animated film based on the Marvel comic book The Ultimates, and released by Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The DVD was released on February 21, 2006 in America, and in Europe on October 2, 2006. The film made its television debut on April 22, 2006 on Cartoon Network's Toonami block with a TV-PG-V rating. The film is about the classic superhero Captain America, who is frozen in suspended animation and awakes to lead a team of superheroes, including Iron Man, Giant Man, Wasp, Thor and Black Widow, to foil an invasion by aliens known as the Chitauri.
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