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The Ultimate Avengers DVD (Movie)
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The Ultimate Avengers Movie (DVD): Ok, I am seriously trying to
contain my language here. What The Heck were they thinking with this movie?
Seriously, it is as removed from the Ultimate universe as they could get without
just dropping the ‘Ultimate’ in the title and just naming it the ‘Avengers
Movie’.
For anyone who reads ‘The Ultimates’ comic series and/or follows the Marvel
Ultimate universe, this movie was basically a sham of the people, situations and
events depicted in the publication. None of the sarcasm or hard-hitting aspects
of the comic series, none of the personal relations….nothing, not even the
personalities of the characters matched their printed counterparts. The only
that remained the same, (thankfully) was the way they looked (well, almost all
of them).
Captain America, seemed like a direct lift from the mainline (616) universe….and
that was just the tip of the iceberg. It seems that the movie creators’ ‘target
audience’ wasn’t mature enough or maybe ‘liberal’ enough to stomach Cap’s and
Janet Pym’s (essentially) extra-marital relationship (as in the comics). So,
instead of that, he got the Black Widow as having the ‘hots’ for him, and poor
Tony was left standing holding his iron-armor clad wanker. If that wasn’t enough
by itself, the Bruce Banner-Betty Ross dynamic seemed to be a combination of the
Ultimate (Bruce) and Hulk-Movie (Betty) universes. Gone was the Uber-Bi**h
Ultimate Betty and in her place we got ‘semi-nerdy’ movie-Betty.
The only two characters (apart from wimpy Bruce) which came across as somewhat
themselves were Hank Pym (bereft of his wife-beater personality) and Nick Fury.
As for the story line, even it was watered down from the expansive setup that
the comic series presented, with the alien invasion/attack being watered down to
just three ships. It seems that the animation team ran out of steam after that.
Even if they just stayed (100 percent) faithful (copying) of the comic arc, they
would have had an incredible story, complete with the berserker Hulk.
Well, I could go on, but what’s the use? The only saving grace was that apart
from the Hulk, they did seem to get the other characters drawn and animated in
keeping with their Ultimate inspirations.
Conclusion: Avoid. Do better with your time and money and spend
both of them on the comic series.
RATING: 3.5/10
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