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Has anyone else seen the previews for the new animated "Ultimate Avengers" movie? As I understand it it is essentaially a direct translation (or as direct as possible for the format) of the Ultimates comic book, from which Captain America's famous "You think this letter on my Forehead stands for FRANCE?" line comes from.

Any thoughts? From the previews I've seen, the acting looks a bit iffy, but the animation looks very nice, so I'm looking forward to it.

For the record, the movie of which I speak is a Direct to DVD flick coming out next Tuesday in the States.

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If it's the same as every other Marvel comic DVD, you'd be better off reading it!
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I don't know; X-Men and Spiderman TAS were pretty good, and I never really got into X-Men Evolution, but I know it has a strong fan-following, so it can't be all bad, can it?

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THE ULTIMATE AVENGERS MOVIE WAS PRETTY GOOD. IT'S PG-13. THERE'S A FEW COOL SPECIAL FEATURES ON THE DISC WHICH INCLUDES COMIC BOOK GEEKS AUDITIONING FOR DIFFERENT PARTS IN THE MOVIE. LUCKILY, NONE OF THEM GOT ONE. THERE IS AN ANIMATIC/BEHIND THE SCENES FEATURE FOR THE ULTIMATE AVENGERS 2 WHICH WILL BE RELEASED IN JUNE, 2006. AND YES, IT'S IN WIDESCREEN WITH DIGITAL 5.1 SURROUND SOUND.


THIS IS A BUY IF YOU'RE INTO MARVEL'S ULTIMATE LINE.





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THIS SHOULD HAVE GONE IN MY REVIEW THREAD, BUT I THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD SERVE BETTER IN THIS ONE.

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Alright- I sat and watched this tonight. I give it a 2 1/2 out of 5 skulls (pirates use skulls instead of stars! ).

First off I haven't read any of 'The Ultimates' yet but I get that its an alternate take on the Marvel continuity so I accept the updates/changes they've made. The characterizations, then, I found interesting and reasonably well laid out. I thought a lot of the dialogue was good but overall the think the story suffered.


*** possible spoilers ***

My main gripe with the story was the alien bad guys. Uh... ok maybe I can accept super soldiers and growth formulas and all that hero jazz but... Nazis working with aliens and allied forces essentially just acting like its no big deal? Then in the present- just what the hell was the whole point of the aliens? I mean who were they? What were they after? How were they going to do whatever they were after? Etc, etc, etc. There was no purpose to the story of the whole film. The aliens were introduced and then after being pummeled for a bit disappeared completely to make way for the Hulk story with only a 'well we beat them and saved the day' line dropped in. Much too disjointed.

My other gripe which I had alluded to in another thread was the animation. Please PLEase PLEASE Marvel... get some REAL animators and a NEW character designer. I swear to whichever deity fits the bill that Marvel has let the same one guy, locked in a closet somewhere, design EVERY bloody character's animated look since G.I. Joe hit the air in the 80s!!!! They all look the same! All the background characters are the same! Yo Joe! And the animation itself is mostly horrid IMHO- as usual in Marvel animation there are horrible gaffs in drawn perspective. The backgrounds never flow with the character movement nor does the art ever match. That's not to say that the character animation is always bad- some of the Hulk vs heros fights were really sharp and looked like they were laid out by completely different artists. And whereas I thought the voices were generally well cast I would be hard pressed to believe that the voices were recorded *prior* to animation- the lips just don't match. I've seen dubbed anime that matched up better than some of the scenes in this movie.

One of the things that I think makes much of the DC animated series stand out is very consistant art design. Even if its totally different from the comics, their creators pick a style and stick with it... which makes the viewer focus more on the *story* than the animation.

To end on a positive note (not something I'm known for in reviews! ) I thought they could have done the whole film JUST on Captain America. They really did his character well and was worlds more interesting than most of the others. Also as DAYV pointed out the extras with the fan auditions are mostly hilarious and well worth a watch!

My vote is rent it but do check it out. Hopefully they'll keep improving from here.
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OK...got this last weekend. I have to respectfully disagree with GC on this one 3 1/2 skulls out of 5.

I thought the animation was definitely better than anything else Marvel has done (X-Men and Spider-Man are AWFUL). I agree that Capt America's characterization was quite good and it would have been nice to flesh it out a little more. I think the length of the movie as a whole was a little weak (70 minutes??). They could have made it a little longer.

The story line with Hulk was cool. I also am just kind of discovering Iron Man. I like the concept, and Stark is a cool character. Will have to check out his monthly title(s).

Looking forward to more Marvel titles of this (or better) quality.
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I'll keep an eye out for the Ultimate Avengers
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