Tags: Avengers Assemble
Iron Man Three in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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Iron Man 2 in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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Iron Man in 60 seconds: my “Reel Faith” review.
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C+ |
**½ |
-1|
Teens & Up*
It’s a potentially promising setup for a slam-bang finale to what has been, despite its flaws, one of the brightest and most entertaining franchises around. Unfortunately, the slapdash plot is pretty much a disaster. A string of miscalculations hamper the fun. And a late revelation, when you stop and think about it, undermines most of the preceding drama.
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In my
Avengers review I wrote, “If
The Avengers isn’t necessarily the
best superhero movie ever made, it is unquestionably the
most superhero movie ever made.“ That, of course, raises the question: What
is the best superhero movie ever made?
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A |
***½ |
+2|
Teens & Up
If
The Avengers isn’t necessarily the
best superhero movie ever made, it is unquestionably the
most superhero movie ever made — and, in that capacity, it is more than well-made enough to take comic-book entertainment to unprecedented levels.
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A- |
***½ |
+2|
Kids & Up*
After a rash of immature, bad-boy cinematic superheroes for whom responsibility is a bigger challenge than taking down supervillains — think
Iron Man,
Thor and
Green Lantern — a hero for whom decency, humility and self-sacrifice come naturally is a breath of fresh air.
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C+ |
**½ |
+0|
Teens & Up
It starts pretty promisingly, and it stays pretty promising throughout, and at some point you realize it’s never actually going to deliver on that promise. There’s never a moment where it goes really wrong — it just never really gets started.
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B+ |
*** |
+1|
Teens & Up
His suit may be iron, but he’s still got feet of clay. Tony Stark may not be the same narcissistic jerk he was at the beginning of
Iron Man two years ago, but that doesn’t mean he’s someone completely different either. The road to redemption is seldom so straight as that.
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B- |
**½ |
+0|
Teens & Up
Although most viewers will probably find
The Incredible Hulk diverting but — after a strong first act — forgettable entertainment, for Hulk fans smarting from the limitations of the
Ang film, it may just be balm for the soul.
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B+ |
*** |
+1-1|
Teens & Up
Smart, sardonic and more than a little silly,
Iron Man is a successful super-hero movie that never takes itself too seriously.
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B+ |
*** |
+0|
Teens & Up*
Not the best or most exciting of comic-book movies to date, but the most thoughtful and arguably one of the most interesting, Ang Lee’s
Hulk offers a new look at Marvel Comics’s green-skinned Jekyll-and-Hyde pulp anti-hero through the director’s poetic, psychologically attuned sensibilities.
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