Avengers:
Endgame
[DVD Avengers]
[DVD Avengers]
This film, which was released in
theaters in the Spring of 2019, and on DVD/BluRay and streaming platforms in
the Summer of 2019, was the culmination of an incredible amount of planning and
movie-producing. It was the 22nd film in a series of interconnected films that
stretch back to Iron Man in 2008, in which all the films fit into a single
continuity, with characters (played by the same actors) that cross over between
films at will.
11 years of planning led up to the
two-film climax that started in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War and concluded
with Avengers: Endgame. Dozens of characters from across the cinematic world
based on the Marvel Comics universe end up on screen in this “finale”. Where Infinity War ended on a depressing cliffhanger, as arch-villain Thanos
“snapped” 50% of all living things out of existence, Avengers:
Endgame is the attempt
(several years later) by the surviving superheroes to “reboot” their new
reality and return to what they knew before, through an audacious and
complicated plan.
People who don’t care about comic
book characters on the screen should avoid this one like the plague. If you DO
love Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, The Hulk, and their many friends and
associates, this film was a dream come true. To say much about its complex
and multi-layered plot would be to spoil the viewing experience. Suffice it to
say — you really need to watch most of the other films in the Marvel Cinematic
Universe from 2008 to 2019, in order to make sense of this film’s many plot
developments.
The core group of actors who’ve
portrayed the most iconic characters in the MCU films put in some of their
absolute best performances in this crown jewel. The effects work is
astonishing. The music is perfect. This film, which needed to live up to over a
decade’s worth of hype, lives up to it in almost every way.
[If
you enjoy this, you may also wish to try all 21 of the films that preceded it,
but particularly Marvel’s
The Avengers, Avengers:
The Age of Ultron, Captain
America: Civil War and Avengers:
Infinity War]
[
Internet Movie
Database entry for this film ] | [ official Avengers:
Endgame web site ]
Recommended
by Scott C.
Bennett Martin Public Library
Bennett Martin Public Library
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