Genre:
Action/Superhero
Directed by:
Joss Whedon
Starring:
Robert Downey Jr., Clark Gregg, Scarlett Johansson, Chris
Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo
Release date:
Fri 04, May 2012
Budget $220 million
Box office $1,502,623,837
Marvel's The Avengers (classified under the name Marvel
Avengers Assemble in the UK and Ireland) is a 2012 American superhero
film produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures,1 based
on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. It is the sixth
installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film is scripted and directed
by Joss Whedon and features an ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey, Jr.,
Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner,
Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård and Samuel L.
Jackson. In The Avengers, Nick Fury, director of the peacekeeping organization
S.H.I.E.L.D., recruits Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk, and Thor to form a
team that must stop Thor's adoptive brother Loki from subjugating Earth.
Development of The Avengers began when Marvel Studios
received a loan from Merrill Lynch in April 2005. After the success of the film
Iron Man in May 2008, Marvel announced that The Avengers would be released in
July 2011. With the signing of Johansson in March 2009, the film was pushed
back for a 2012 release. Whedon was brought on board in April 2010 and rewrote
the screenplay originally written by Zak Penn. Production began in April 2011
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, in August and New
York City in September. The film was converted to 3D in post-production.
The Avengers premiered on April 11, 2012, at the El Capitan
Theatre in Hollywood, California. The film received positive reviews from most
film critics and set or tied numerous box office records, including the biggest
opening weekend in North America and the fastest film to gross $1 billion
worldwide. With a worldwide total gross of over $1.5 billion, The Avengers ranks
as the third highest-grossing film of all time. The film is scheduled to be
released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on September 25, 2012. A sequel to be written
and directed by Whedon is scheduled for release on May 1, 2015.
Plot
The Asgardian Loki encounters the Other, the leader of an
extraterrestrial race known as the Chitauri. In exchange for retrieving the
Tesseract,2 a powerful energy source of unknown potential, the Other promises
Loki a Chitauri army with which he can subjugate the Earth. Nick Fury, director
of the espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., and his lieutenant Agent Maria Hill
arrive at a remote research facility during an evacuation, where physicist Dr.
Erik Selvig is leading a research team experimenting on the Tesseract. Agent
Phil Coulson explains that the object has begun radiating an unusual form of
energy. The Tesseract suddenly activates and opens a portal, allowing Loki to
reach Earth. Loki takes the Tesseract and uses his scepter to enslave Selvig
and several agents, including Clint Barton, to aid him in his getaway.
In response to the attack, Fury reactivates the
"Avengers Initiative". Agent Natasha Romanoff is sent to Calcutta to
recruit Dr. Bruce Banner to trace the Tesseract through its gamma radiation
emissions. Coulson visits Tony Stark to have him review Selvig's research, and
Fury approaches Steve Rogers with an assignment to retrieve the Tesseract.
While Barton steals iridium needed to stabilize the Tesseract's power, Loki
causes a distraction in Stuttgart leading to a confrontation with Rogers,
Stark, and Romanoff that ends with Loki's surrender. While Loki is being
escorted to S.H.I.E.L.D., Thor, his adoptive brother, arrives and frees him
hoping to convince him to abandon his plan and return to Asgard. After a
confrontation with Stark and Rogers, Thor agrees to take Loki to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s
flying aircraft carrier, the Helicarrier. There Loki is imprisoned while
scientists Banner and Stark attempt to locate the Tesseract.
The Avengers become divided, both over how to approach Loki
and the revelation that S.H.I.E.L.D. plans to harness the Tesseract to develop
weapons as a deterrent against hostile extra-terrestrials. As the group argues,
Barton and Loki's other possessed agents attack the Helicarrier, disabling its
engines in flight and causing Banner to transform into the Hulk. Stark and
Rogers try to restart the damaged engines, and Thor attempts to stop the Hulk's
rampage. Romanoff fights Barton, and knocks him unconscious, breaking Loki's
mind control. Loki escapes after killing Coulson and ejecting Thor from the
airship, while the Hulk falls to the ground after attacking a S.H.I.E.L.D.
fighter jet. Fury uses Coulson's death to motivate the Avengers into working as
a team. Stark and Rogers realize that simply defeating them will not be enough
for Loki; he needs to overpower them publicly to validate himself as ruler of
Earth. Loki uses the Tesseract, in conjunction with a device Selvig built, to
open a portal above Stark Tower to the Chitauri fleet in space, launching his
invasion.
The Avengers rally in defense of New York City, the location
of the portal, but quickly realize they will be overwhelmed as wave after wave
of Chitauri descend upon Earth. Rogers, Stark, and Thor evacuate civilians with
assistance from Barton, while Banner transforms back into the Hulk and goes
after Loki, eventually beating him into submission. Romanoff makes her way to
the portal, where Selvig, freed of Loki's control, reveals that Loki's sceptre
can be used to close the portal. Meanwhile, Fury's superiors attempt to end the
invasion by launching a nuclear missile at Manhattan. Stark intercepts the
missile and takes it through the portal toward the Chitauri fleet. The missile
detonates, destroying the invaders' lead ship which disables their forces on
Earth. Stark's suit runs out of power and he falls back through the portal, but
the Hulk saves him from crashing to the ground. Romanoff deactivates the portal
to prevent further invasion. In the aftermath, Thor returns Loki and the
Tesseract to Asgard. Fury notes that the Avengers will return when they are
needed.
In the first of two post-credits scenes, the Other confers
with his master3 about the attack on Earth and humanity's resistance; in the
second, the Avengers eat in silence at a shawarma restaurant.
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Iron man will be legend film :)
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