The Norse God of Thunder is so morose after the Snap, he's all but abdicated his duties to New Asgard to become an unkempt drunk. Normally muscle-bound Thor has a gut, swills beer and plays Fortnite all day with his best buds Korg and Miek.
The first time you saw Thor's new beer belly, you were supposed to laugh. There is no way Thor would ever 'eat a salad' Marvel Studios/Screenshot by Jován Pulgarín/CNET In fact, it's so devoid of narrative support, it's distracting, and it isn't entirely clear how Ronin/Hawkeye (Hawknin? Rohawk?) strayed from his fellow Avengers' stick-together philosophy.
But it isn't necessary to drive Endgame's plot. It also feels like a forced nod to Marvel fans familiar with Hawkeye's Ronin story arc. Hawkeye's vengeful transformation is all so dramatic. That's it, I'm officially calling him Mohawkeye. Unmasked, he has a thickly inked sleeve tattoo and a mulleted mohawk straight off of some 1980s Brat Pack B-lister. The next time you see Hawkeye, he's covered head-to-toe in black, wielding a sword (not a bow) and slaughtering random baddies. It's a tender, touching scene made even more poignant when Barton turns his head and turns back moments after Lila, his two sons and his wife Laura turn to dust after Thanos' deadly snap, which wiped out half of Earth's population. Hawkeye's mohawk-mulleted Ronin is totally unnecessaryĪvengers: Endgame opens with Clint Barton coaching his daughter Lila in archery, his alter ego Hawkeye's weapon of choice. Maybe going into the next phase, Marvel will perfect its already formidable storytelling chops with a little more nuance and finesse. Maybe that's why some of the cringiest moments of Avengers: Endgame stuck out like they did. It takes a lot more to impress me than it did 11 years ago. I have my favorite MCU films ( Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy), but I've also been struck by superhero fatigue. In Iron Man and Robert Downey Jr'.s breezy Tony Stark was a sassy, genius superhero who felt like a product of our times, not the Golden Age of comics.īut 21 movies and too many episodes of Agents of Shield later, I, like my colleague Roger Cheng, am ready for a steadier, more intimate Phase 4 to begin. When Iron Man burst onto the scene in 2008, I was hooked. I read Watchmen, V for Vendetta and anything Neil Gaiman ever wrote, but Marvel comics weren't on my teenage radar. I'm a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but not a superfan. However, the film's unignorable, groan-inducing WTF moments jostled the plot enough to distract me from an otherwise sweeping epic.īefore you aim your Infinity Gauntlet at my jugular, let me tell you where I'm coming from. Marvel's goals were ambitious, and considering the scale of the job, Endgame is a triumph that's clobbered the box office to become the No.
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But it also has clumsy and sappy moments that lumber along to remind us the comics genre initially targeted teenage boys.Ĭinematic perfection is nearly impossible, especially in a 3 hour, 1 minute long movie that deals with a massive ensemble cast, disparate storylines, time travel science(!!!) and peak viewer expectation. It has the kind of compelling storytelling that makes you want to believe that, yes, in some parallel universe, maybe it's not so far-fetched that the characters we've grown to love over the years could confront the evils of our day.
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