To sum Age of Ultron, basically you got the Avengers Assembling again, a majority of people describing it as a high school reunion, which is a perfect way to label it. All I can really say is... holy crap it is good.

I had pretty low expectations of this film if I'm completely honest here. There were a lot of hiccups with casting and some of the plot was on the down low a majority of the time before the release. Marvel have been throwing massive spanners in the works with all the movies for every, single, individual hero, much like DC, which I get because they're competing against each other. There's also been speed bumps with the Spider-Man movies being put on hold due to casting issues, then you have the fact that Marvel want to smash more heroes together with The Avengers or with the individual Avengers heroes movies, putting a lot of their timeline on hold. Basically, there have been major screw ups but this has definitely been made up through Age of Ultron. 

Now onto the nitty gritty. The effects of Age of Ultron are absolutely epic, I think I’m the only one to believe that this film upped the anty and went above and beyond, beating the first of the franchise to actually look pretty damn epic in my eyes. Hey, The Avengers was insanely crazy and kicked off this franchise, making it a worldwide phenomenon. However, I think because of the introduction of a number of characters, it made The Avengers that much cooler. There’s a predictable plot embedded into the film, however, there is an unexpected turn of events, which I did not see coming and was completely in awe of the plot. The film had me on my toes. Every stunt performed, every move the Avengers made was just putting me on the edge of my seat. 

You’ll see Captain America use his Frisbee and taking charge. You’ll get to see Hawkeye in action with his bow and arrow (I still prefer the Green Arrow to this guy but that’s just between us). Thor and his magic hammer, there's a lot about his hammer, like a lot. Then you have Bruce Banner going green and turning into the Hulk (so much smashing and stuff, hold onto your seats everyone, he might take that next). You got Tony Stark being as cocky as ever and chucking in the one liners, as both himself, and Iron Man. And finally, you have my favourite, Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow, wearing a really tight suit, showing off her assets and picking up after all the boys in the film. So you’ll expect some crazy stunts and fights from all these characters as per usual. Oh also you'll have Nick Fury and Maria Hill being bad ass!

But then you got some newbies coming into the picture and expanding The Avengers franchise even further. Obviously we are introduced to the villain of the film, Ultron, after Tony Stark, with the help of Bruce Banner (I don’t why every single description of this film solely blames Stark but hey I’m going to put it out there and say he had a helping hand in all of this, although it was technically his idea), majorly screws up everything and puts a lot of people in danger, and thus leading to the avenging.

Then you have the Maximoff twins, Wanda and Pietro, who are mischievous little things they are. Wanda is the Scarlet Witch and Pietro is Quicksilver. There are a couple of things that let me down with these characters. Due to X Men and The Avengers being filmed in different studios, it has eliminated the hope that the two teams will ever combine, as well as eliminating the factor that Wanda and Pietro Maximoff actually have their powers from being mutants, not because of the plot you actually see in Age of Ultron. I can kind of understand why some Marvel movies stray from the comic book plots or want to keep other teams and such separate, as it’ll further add to confusion, but keeping a key element of the characters out of the films, defeats the purpose of the characters. Another factor that put me off watching this film was the fact that the casting of Quicksilver was different, so Evan Peters, who was cast in X Men: Days of Future Past was not cast in Age of Ultron, however, this is due to what was explained previously and also because there alternate universes and I won’t even get into that. Although I had low expectation of Aaron Johnson, I have to say, he proved me wrong, I was so taken aback by his take on Quicksilver, that I might have just liked it even more than Evan Peter’s portrayal. Both Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Johnson have these accents, and you can’t even tell what their real accents are because the accent they pull off is so thick. Overall, I think the character transformations that Wanda and Pietro go through are predictable but still enjoyable to watch.

 

Finally, you have the very mysterious Vision. I say mysterious as Marvel really kept this on the down low, and didn’t release anything about this character; movie posters of this character are only just emerging. I think Vision is pretty wicked and I’m really excited to see if or when this character is in more Marvel films, how the character will be further portrayed.

The downfall of this movie, for me personally, is that there is a character who has a terrible fate, however, this develops another characters, but also, there is hope that the character will return, but it's unsure whether this will in fact happen as the character is quite controversial.

I think the best part about The Avengers is that all the characters involved, and even those who aren't even involved or have had their own films or even been dwelled upon, are intertwined in the film and in individual films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There are always these little hints here and there, and it really provides solid ground for the future of the franchise. Also just a heads up for everyone, the DVD release of Age of Ultron is confirmed to have an alternate ending to the cinema release. 

On another note, I'm quite nervous about who will be cast as Spider-Man, all the casting choices look incredibly young and me no likey, why couldn't Marvel just keep Andrew Garfield and leave it alone. It's upsetting that Garfield wasn't given a chance to continue on with the franchise and even join the Avengers. On another note, I'm extremely excited about Captain America: Civil War and X Men: Apocalypse starting to film, what a time to be alive.


Straying from the Marvel Universe and taking a quick squeeze at the DC Universe, I'm not sure how I feel about the Batman v Superman trailer as all the audience sees is doom and gloom and it's quite boring to say the least. Then there's Ben Affleck portraying Bruce Wayne, I feel like the role just isn't for him, Christian Bale honestly portrayed the best Batman there, but then again, we haven't really seen the film yet, so it's quite difficult to judge based on a quick trailer that doesn't really show anything at all. Furthermore, you don't get a glimpse of Wonder Woman or Aquaman, after all the hype surrounding the casting choices, it's a bit of a let down. Also I think the DC Universe heavily relies on its male characters to maintain momentum of their films, it'd be awesome to finally see a woman taking charge in some new films instead of seeing a typically side-lined woman. I think DC Universe kills it on TV, the Arrow and The Flash have been slaying. Thanks to Arrow there's now a Suicide Squad film coming out soon, I didn't like the idea at first because Arrow's casting is pretty awesome and it now puts the TV show on strings whereby Harley Quinn or The Joker can never make an appearance in the squad. Additionally, the cast members from both the TV shows will never be imbedded in the Justice League films and there are now limitations on the series as Justice League can't actually be addressed. It all seems a bit silly when you have such popular shows that have hope for the future. Although DC have had success in their TV shows of Arrow and The Flash, even Smallville was a hit (wish it continued) their movies aren't that crash hot; except of course Batman: The Dark Knight. The Marvel Cinematic Universe clearly know how to make a good film and do it incredibly well, there definitely is some tough competition between the two universes, especially now that there will be two superhero teams in town.

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