Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Directed by Anthony Russo
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.
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Directors Anthony and Joe Russo and writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely gleefully unpack some of the persistent myths of that particular device, ripping apart the plotholes of iconic chrono-cinema stories like Back to the Future and The Terminator.
Oh, and there’s more than a few references to “Back to the Future.”
The nature of the quantum realm is more sophisticated than in, say, Back to the Future (which gets a razzing, Stark preferring the theories of Planck and contemporary egghead David Deutsch), but the film echoes Robert Zemeckis’s farce in how characters encounter their former selves from previous films.
Before long, the surviving characters are ricocheting through the recent past, cheekily referencing movies like “Back to the Future” and “Somewhere in Time,” and reviving the classic would-you-kill-Hitler debate for the Thanos era.
Despite its attempt to tell you not once but twice that it isn’t Back To The Future Part II – do not believe it.
Without giving away the convoluted design, let’s say that it involves wrinkles in time—a preposterous sci-fi gimmick that allows Marvel to stage a Back To The Future Part II scavenger hunt through its franchise history, to arrange cameos for familiar faces, to make explicit its characters’ desire to mend their mistakes.
The Back to the Future franchise is dutifully name-checked as Endgame basically pulls the same stunt as Back to the Future Part II (1989), but on an even grander scale.
As one might expect, one of the most changed by Thanos’ act is Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr., whose Iron Man was ground zero for this particular superhero playground), who actually finds a way to begin his life again and doesn’t easily want to return to his avenging ways.
The Avengers fared somewhat better (if you don't count Iron Man stranded in outer space with Nebula).
Iron Man exceeded all expectations, created a new juggernaut (not Juggernaut) and sent a generation of filmgoers on an emotional journey that culminates in Avengers: Endgame.
Directors Anthony and Joe Russo and writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely—all returning from Infinity War and all veterans of a pair of Captain America films as well—have done a splendid job of wrapping up 11 years' worth of MCU storylines spread across 21 films (from the 2008 Iron Man right up to this year's Captain Marvel ).
Parece que fue ayer cuando Iron Man (Jon Favreau, 2008) llegó a nuestras vidas como inicio de la primera fase del megaproyecto UCM y, al mismo tiempo, mucho ha llovido desde aquella reunión grupal que cambió el género para siempre en Los Vengadores (Joss Whedon, 2012).
Thor (Hemsworth) in particular, is doing a great job of channelling Jeff Bridges’ The Dude, the lovable layabout from The Big Lebowski , in an amusing and entirely self-aware manner.
In other news, and perhaps the one light at the end of the tunnel, the newly restored Guardians of the Galaxy – just don’t think too hard about how they’ve been restored – are joined by Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, who in one of the movie’s best choices, has been temporarily transformed into an all-powerful version of The Dude from The Big Lebowski – paunch, beer, grey sweater and all.
It is not a joke to consider his hilarious turn as a tribute to “The Big Lebowski.”
(All of the Avengers are coping in their own way, with Captain America leading a self-help group and Thor going into denial and basically turning into The Big Lebowski’s Dude.)
He’s more The Dude from The Big Lebowski (1998) than a superhero that’s starred in three of his own movies.
With a feeling that recalls 1963's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, dozens of famous fighters reunite — Chris Evans’ Captain America , Chris Hemsworth's Thor and Chris Pratt's Star-Lord.
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He also starred in other franchises like Star Trek (he was Captain Kirk's dad in Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness ) and The Huntsman in Snow White And The Huntsman (2012) and The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016).
The possible answer to the dilemma of the missing Avengers is the film’s biggest joke, and I mean that literally since the dialogue will reference such fan favorites as “Back to the Future,” “Star Trek,” “X-Men,” “Terminator,” “Time After Time” “Somewhere in Time,” “About Time” (but not “Timecrimes” and “La Jetee,” the two coolest movies of that type ever made).
The attempted scientific explanations for time travel come across as sub-"Star Trek" level gobbledygook and, frustratingly, the movie sometimes breaks its own pre-established rules.
It works out okay for one of them, but the other is the stuff of nightmares: His head looks melted out of shape, like a Star Trek teleportation accident.
There’s a virtual replay of one of Tom Cruise’s silliest scenes, the notorious fistfight with himself in Oblivion , that also harks back to the campiest moments in Star Trek .
(If part one of this two-part Avengers saga occasionally hyper-jumped into the Star Wars space-opera quadrant of the blockbuster cosmos, part two sometimes resembles a particularly nifty episode of cross-universe rival Star Trek , complete with lots of layman quantum physics.)
The gags are still there but they’re an occasional light relief rather than the comedy roller coaster of an Ant Man or Guardians of the Galaxy instalment.
The scheme involves convincing all the major living players this is a worthy mission and then revisiting old locations including Asgard, Star-Lord’s intro in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), the New York City battle from the original Avengers (2012) film, and Vormir where Red Skull awaits.
The Infinity Stones mostly came off as gimmicks whenever they showed up, in the likes of The Avengers , Thor: The Dark World, Guardians of the Galaxy , Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Doctor Strange .
The surviving “Avengers” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” characters, plus the recently introduced Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), are trying in various ways to cope.
Although all the Avengers (and affiliated superfolk) have undergone notable internal struggles and realignments, no one has changed quite as much as Nebula, who has been performing a slow-motion heel-turn from villain to hero since she first appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).
It rips off Spielberg’s A.I ., and Marvel fans probably won’t recognize that it also rips off Thornton Wilder’s Our Town — that’s part of the MCU cultural cheat.
The possible answer to the dilemma of the missing Avengers is the film’s biggest joke, and I mean that literally since the dialogue will reference such fan favorites as “Back to the Future,” “Star Trek,” “X-Men,” “Terminator,” “Time After Time” “Somewhere in Time,” “About Time” (but not “Timecrimes” and “La Jetee,” the two coolest movies of that type ever made).
Before long, the surviving characters are ricocheting through the recent past, cheekily referencing movies like “Back to the Future” and “Somewhere in Time,” and reviving the classic would-you-kill-Hitler debate for the Thanos era.
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Despite its serious flaws, the film is carefully crafted to offer a wealth of emotionally satisfying moments for fans of the 21 previous films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — in particular, the older franchises of "Iron Man," "Captain America," "Thor" and "The Incredible Hulk" (with quite a bit of a newer franchise, "Ant-Man," referenced for good measure).
Since 2008, as we’ve progressed from “Iron Man” to “The Incredible Hulk” to “Thor” to “Captain America: The First Avenger,” we’ve seen Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), and Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Clint Barton/Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) battle alien invasions, terrorists, and ghosts from their past.
With the onerous task of having to bring matters to a close in the grandiose conflict between uber-villain Thanos (Josh Brolin) and the Avengers, directors Anthony & Joe Russo ( Captain America: Winter Soldier/Civil War ; Avengers: Infinity War ) summon the super-powered roster of characters that have accrued over a staggering range of 21 films since Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk kicked off the super-franchise way back in 2008.
Los espectadores somos Charlie Chaplin en una de las más famosas escenas de Modern Times, amarrados a una silla ingiriendo la constante serie de referencias, cameos, chistes internos, guiños y momentos emblemáticos de los comics que jamás imaginamos ver algún día en pantalla.