Ultimate Avengers the Movie by Will Meugniot and Dick Sebast and Bob Richardson (2006)
7 June 2008An enjoyable if short (71 minute) take on the alternate universe Avengers as chronicled in the 1990’s comic series The Ultimates. I never read the book (though I am going to at Marvel Online) but it is an enjoyable alternative universe tale with a black Colonel Nick Fury (here based on Samuel Jackson) and also like the Iron Man live action has a government sponsored Avengers initiative. The film focuses mostly on Captain America, and doesn’t get too much deeper into the other characters mainly because of length, but it is enjoyable with good animation and some great alien bashing action. Worth checking out for sure. I would watch a series based on this for sure.
The film starts in the 1940’s as World War II has ended, but one branch of the Nazis have not given up, and they are sending in an army team led by the super soldier Steve Rogers also known as Captain America (Justin Gross). We learn these Nazi’s are working with Aliens and have built a nuke to shoot at the US. Iron man fights their Nazi leader Herr Kleiser (James K. Ward) who turns out to be an alien shape shifter, but doesn’t stop the rocket, so he jumps on it to stop it, battle Kleiser, and manages to destroy it, but falls into the icy ocean waters and is though killed. In modern times General Nick Fury (Andre Ware) leads a submarine with scientist Dr. Betty Ross (Nan McNamara) to recover the frozen Captain form the arctic ice. Fury and his agency shield is working on the super soldier program, and need the Captain to help as he is the only one the process worked on. The scientist Bruce Banner (Michael Massee) who is also the hulk is the scientist working on it. The Captain awakens into a world he doesn’t know. And the Aliens have returned, and without more super soldiers Nick Fury must try to form a team of Avengers of the Earths mightiest to fight them.
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS….
Fury and his number 1, the ex Russian super spy Natalia Romanoff aka the Black Widow (Olivia d’Abo) go to recruit the best. The go to Anthony Stark (Marc Worden) to try and get his armored body guard Iron Man (who is secretly Stark). They go to the arrogant Hank Pym aka Giant Man and his lovely wife Janet Pym aka The Wasp. And finally the peace loving Asguardian god Thor (David Boat).
The team come together under Captain America who has been given a new Adamantium and Vibranium shield, but the first mission goes very badly with Iron Man getting pummelled and his identity being relieved. The team did not work out well at all.
They also find out that Banner has in fact only been working on the Super Hero serum to try and allow himself to control the Hulk, so they will have no more super soldiers, and when the Aliens attack, the team must come back together to save the Earth.
Banner injects himself much to his ex lover Betty’s chagrin and goes out as the Hulk to fight the Aliens, but starts to lose control.
And after the Aliens are defeated the Avengers must fight the Hulk, and are almost killed before Betty can calm him down and inject him with his own drugs to calm him down.
The Avengers are born.
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Enjoyable. I would still rather have this universe instead of an alternate one, but this was still pretty enjoyable overall.
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