Avengers Assemble (3D)

This week I went to see Avengers Assemble in 3D at Vue Cinema, Festival Place, Basingstoke.

Over the last few years, Marvel have been producing some really good movies...The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger...all these movies were leading up to this. If you watched during/after the movie credits, you had little snippets involving SHIELD and teases about the Avengers Initiative.

The story brings together the mightiest of Marvel's superheroes..The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow and Hawkeye under the watchful eye (no pun intended) of Nick Fury. The heroes are assembled as the Avengers Initiative, as a defence against the largest threats against the World.

The Avengers enemy is demigod Loki, who opens a portal to allow creatures to invade the planet so he can be come supreme ruler of Earth. At first the heroes fight against each other as Loki planned (Dr Banner says "We're not a team. We're a time bomb!") and that allows the invasion to go ahead.

Can the superheroes get together in save to save Earth? Damn straight they can...but how much of the Earth will be left?

The movie was a great watch, and had some great comedy moments, some touching moments, and of course a moral message (that teamwork is a good thing) and a great movie that Marvel/action/superhero fans will enjoy....and of course look out for the obligatory Stan Lee cameo and tease during the movie credits.

Joss Whedon has done a great story, and has truly redeemed himself after the absolute dross that was The Cabin In The Woods...this seems to be the kind of movie/realm that he works in best.

The movie was made 3D in post production, so this was not as good as it could have been...I know there are plenty of people who will be perfectly happy with the 3D, but most of the movie is "flat" and I wish that they would stop doing this. If you are going to make a movie 3D then actually film it in 3D, it makes all the difference.

Avengers Assemble is in cinemas now, you can see it in 2D or 3D and is rated 12A.

The Cabin In The Woods

Today I went to Vue Cinema, Festival Place, Basingstoke to see the movie The Cabin In The Woods.

The movie is about a group of people who go to a desolate place to unwind and have a good time...but all the while they are being watched and manipulated by people who are using them for a higher purpose...

I went into the cinema expecting good things of this movie, but to be honest it really was not to great a movie and despite a few clever bits a lot of it was highly predictable and to be honest quite boring. It had a little gore in it and some funny bits it in too, but it didn't save it. The ending was quite lame too.

Personally, I don't really recommend this movie very much...but I'm sure there are some people out there who will like it.

The Cabin In The Woods is rated 15 and in UK cinemas now.