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Avengers: Infinity War part I - Too Many Capes
WRITER : Admin
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DATE : 24-03-25
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CATEGORY : Movies
Unfortunately, Infinity War has trouble keeping up with the scads of characters who have accumulated on the MCU’s rolls in the course of that decade. While the Russo Bros. managed to strike a delicate balance in Captain America: Civil War, servicing a broad set of characters in a single story, they can’t quite manage the same feat for The Avengers writ large.
The opening act of Infinity War is full of throat-clearing and table setting for all of these characters. In addition to taking time to establish Thanos as a challenge beyond the everyday baddie (something the movie accomplishes by having him kill the bad guy from the first Avengers flick and manhandle The Hulk), the film has to check in with almost all the major figures on the Marvel movie roster, paying (at a minimum) lip service to what they’ve been up to since we last saw them and blazing through reunions and reactions galore.
The result is a film that is both lopsided and overstuffed. Eventually, Infinity War’s narrative coalesces into a few distinct threads. Thor, Rocket, and Groot go off to forge a weapon to defeat the uber-villain. Iron Man, Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, and the remaining Guardians set out to stop Thanos on his home planet. Gamora is dragged along with the Mad Titan himself on his journey. And the remaining, earthbound Avengers (most notably Scarlet Witch and Vision) fend off Thanos’s minions on the home front.
But the rosters for each of these parties wax and wane over the course of these quests, and the movie never quite finds its center as this mass of characters ebbs and flows from one scene to the next.
That same hit-or-miss quality extends to the crossovers that had fans salivating in anticipation. Some of the film’s novel pairings work like gangbusters. The adulation Thor receives from the Guardians, along with Star-Lord’s instant jealousy and attempts to puff himself up, are a delight from beginning to end. Others, like the attempt to replicate Iron Man’s combative chemistry with Captain America by subbing in Dr. Strange, tend to fizzle. And others still, like the complicated dynamic between Thanos and Gamora, become the emotional backbone of Infinity War. But there’s little consistency to these mash-ups, and that makes an already top-heavy film feel more scattered and disjointed when it tries to assemble the pieces of its grand finale.
Infinity War also strains to maintain the trademark comedic bent of the MCU, to the point that the quipping starts to feel mandatory rather than organic. Peter Quill calling Thanos “Grimace” is in the proud tradition of Buffy poking fun of a bloody-lipped vampire for having “fruit punch mouth.” But eventually, the bon mots start to pile up and feel shoehorned in. Levity is one of the Marvel movies’ strengths, but after a while, the hit rate for the jokes in Infinity War starts to flag, and as the stakes increase, the smart remarks begin to feel like the writers meeting a quota rather than letting the repartee emerge naturally from the situation at hand.
The cumulative effect of all this unevenness is a movie full of tremendous moments — the heart-to-heart between Rocket and Thor, the elaborate head-fake at Knowhere, and badass lines from the likes of Black Panther and Captain America — but also one that has trouble finding its footing through much of the build to its final act. There are a ton of moving parts in Infinity War, and oftentimes they make the movie feel more like a twelve-car pileup than the elegant ballet the Russo Bros. meant to choreograph.
The opening act of Infinity War is full of throat-clearing and table setting for all of these characters. In addition to taking time to establish Thanos as a challenge beyond the everyday baddie (something the movie accomplishes by having him kill the bad guy from the first Avengers flick and manhandle The Hulk), the film has to check in with almost all the major figures on the Marvel movie roster, paying (at a minimum) lip service to what they’ve been up to since we last saw them and blazing through reunions and reactions galore.
But the rosters for each of these parties wax and wane over the course of these quests, and the movie never quite finds its center as this mass of characters ebbs and flows from one scene to the next.
WRITER : Admin
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DATE : 24-04-16
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CATEGORY : File Search
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