{"id":42820,"date":"2019-05-13T19:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T23:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=42820"},"modified":"2019-05-13T19:42:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T23:42:48","slug":"avengers-endgame-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/05\/avengers-endgame-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Avengers: Endgame Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Bob Garver<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Here\nit is \u2013 the grand finale to the superhero franchise that defined a whole\ngeneration of blockbusters. We thought we were going to get a definitive end\nlast year with \u201cAvengers: Infinity War,\u201d but then the evil Thanos (Josh Brolin)\nprocured the powerful Infinity Gauntlet, snapped his fingers, and half the cast\ndied. Never before had a superhero movie ended with a bad guy standing tall on\nthat level. It was hard to believe that Marvel Studios would kill off so many\npopular characters, and even harder to believe that they\u2019d let those characters\nstay dead. Now comes \u201cAvengers: Endgame,\u201d where those characters are probably\ngoing to be brought back to life, but how? And how long will the movie take to\nget there? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            I\nsuppose I should start off with a roll call. Still alive are Iron Man (Robert\nDowney Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), The\nIncredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Hawkeye\n(Jeremy Renner), War Machine (Don Cheadle), Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper),\nNebula (Karen Gillan), and last-minute contact Captain Marvel (Brie Larson).\nMarvel returns a stranded Iron Man and Nebula to Earth, where they join the\nothers in formulating a plan to go after Thanos. The plan doesn\u2019t work out.\nThis is one problem that won\u2019t be solved with a finger snap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Five\nyears pass. The Avengers disassemble and go off to deal with the grief in their\nown ways. But then a speck of hope appears, no bigger than an ant. It\u2019s Ant-Man\n(Paul Rudd), miraculously freed from the quantum realm, where he was trapped at\nthe end of last summer\u2019s \u201cAnt-Man and The Wasp.\u201d For him, the five years felt\nlike five hours. If time works that weirdly in the quantum realm, maybe it is\npossible to use quantum physics to travel back in time and stop Thanos. It\u2019s\ncrazy, and confusing, and overly complicated, but it just might work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            The\nreformed Avengers need to keep Thanos from getting his hands on the six\nInfinity Stones that control the gauntlet. To do this, they\u2019ll have to travel\nback to three of their previous adventures: \u201cThe Avengers\u201d (2012), \u201cThor: The\nDark World\u201d (2013), and \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy\u201d (2014). They see old friends\nand enemies in these scenarios, and the movie keeps you guessing as to who will\npop up in a cameo next (a certain late Marvel honcho does make an appearance).\nNeedless to say, things don\u2019t go as smoothly as our heroes would like, and\nthey\u2019re forced to make some hasty decisions with results ranging from humorous\nto tragic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Naturally,\nthere are some laughs, tears, and excitement along the way. But nothing\ncompares to the last half hour of the film, which effectively had the audience\nat my screening roaring, bawling, and screaming. Especially screaming. Then\nagain, maybe \u201cbawling\u201d should have taken it because there are some majorly sad\nmoments in the film. But they\u2019re beautiful, well-earned, touching sad moments,\nunlike the cheap \u201cthings are not right with the world\u201d shocker that was the\nending to \u201cInfinity War.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            \u201cAvengers:\nEndgame\u201d is every bit the juggernaut it\u2019s been made out to be. I\u2019m perfectly\nfine with it making a record-shattering $350 million in its opening weekend. Do\nI have some problems with it? Sure, some of the time travel stuff doesn\u2019t make\nsense, certain characters pose for a moment of fan service instead of helping\nwhere they\u2019re needed, and I think one character could have replaced another in\na climactic moment (email me if you want to know which one). But this movie is\nso much fun, so emotional, and just so big that it\u2019s nearly impossible not to\nfind several things you like about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grade: B<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d is rated\nPG-13 for sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and some language. Its\nrunning time is 181 minutes. Yeah, it\u2019s an epic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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