Ron RoweThe Next Avengers DVD Review (Spoiler- Free)
September 29th 2008 20:20
I didn’t want to do it. My seven-year old son made me do it. I watched Marvel’s latest direct to video animated film, The Next Avengers, only to see if it was suitable for my son to watch. I wasn’t optimistic, since the premise involved the outright annihilation of my beloved Avengers in the first minute of the film. I was likewise pessimistic about the chances of me enjoying the film, since the principle characters are a group of precocious prepubescent children.
I’m man enough to admit when I’m wrong. It was pretty good. Better than any of the Marvel Animated DVDs since the first Ultimate Avengers. Regular readers know that I am partial to Hawkeye, and there was a nice homage to ol’ Hawk in an exchange between an aged Tony Stark and Hawkeye’s young son.
The whole movie appealed to the fanboy in me, with frequent oblique references to such comic lore as Betty Ross, Storm, Clint Barton, Jacosta, and more. It felt like one long Easter Egg hunt. There was also a wonderful red herring that distracted part of my brain for most of the film until it was organically resolved within the film.
Maybe it was the magic of lowered expectations, but I really enjoyed the Next Avengers enough to make me forget about the awful animated Iron Man & to get me really excited about the next two installments in the Marvel Animated line: Hulk vs. Wolverine and Hulk vs. Thor.
I’m man enough to admit when I’m wrong. It was pretty good. Better than any of the Marvel Animated DVDs since the first Ultimate Avengers. Regular readers know that I am partial to Hawkeye, and there was a nice homage to ol’ Hawk in an exchange between an aged Tony Stark and Hawkeye’s young son.
The whole movie appealed to the fanboy in me, with frequent oblique references to such comic lore as Betty Ross, Storm, Clint Barton, Jacosta, and more. It felt like one long Easter Egg hunt. There was also a wonderful red herring that distracted part of my brain for most of the film until it was organically resolved within the film.
Maybe it was the magic of lowered expectations, but I really enjoyed the Next Avengers enough to make me forget about the awful animated Iron Man & to get me really excited about the next two installments in the Marvel Animated line: Hulk vs. Wolverine and Hulk vs. Thor.
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