Take Loki, face pale Asgard exile distant world. If you saw him walking down the sidewalk with a helmet with horns and bright launch death, chances are you nudge your neighbor and say, "It looks like the problem." And it is safe in the coffee stand where he can not see you. If you walk up to him, it is possible to cross the (fast) across the street.
Now, we all know that jumping to conclusions is not entirely fair. There are many plausible explanations why anyone would wear horned helmets and wielding dangerous weapons. Perhaps he attended a costume party. Perhaps he was an accountant who just want to liven things up in the office. Maybe he is rich, young, eccentric Viking boats have been searching for the last 1200 years.
But we're talking about is Loki. Even when we last saw in 2011 of Thor, the man was up to no good. Anyway, you only torque for insanity since.
His first action as a tourist Earth killing many people and destroying massive government complex. And when the soul dare try to tell you the world's population do not want to fight, Loki said: "Ants have nothing to boot." Obviously, the child could stand to read a self-help book or something. Proactive maybe 101 or Making Friends Leadership for Dummies.
Loki is not here to make friends, though. He's here to embarrass his brother, Thor, destroying our small planet under the iron heel and cause a lot of pain and suffering that you can-just because he was that kind of person. And to help you do so, he brought foreign troops.
Looks like we do not stand a chance. Why, even a superhero can not cope with this kind of threat.
Well, perhaps not one. But what about six?Positive Elements
If you have not guessed, Marvel's The Avengers is a superhero movie. So it was nice to see that it has some super heroic enough. The Avengers here consists of four superheroes who have made their own movies: Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and Hulk, plus some add-on heroes as super-spy Black Widow and arrow in hand, Hawkeye shooter. And while they all have their own set of super skills, not what they have that makes them heroes: This is what you get.
And they give their all here, risking your body, mind and soul alien intruders throw. Even Tony Stark / Iron Man, and many selfish lid open, do not hesitate to put his armored threatened (and still faces Loki without an elegant suit at one point) a car. His self-sacrifice is the most obvious, but each of these heroes paid the ultimate price to give the rest of us live long-term lease contracts.
It is not just his penchant for literally fight the good fight that makes a hero, however. This is in addition, too little less frantic story: Black Widow Hawkeye trying to save the power of the mind-scrambling Loki; Thor begged his brother to stop the warmongering now and be at peace with him; Bruce Banner, a mild-mannered alter ego the Hulk, trying to keep the "others" to harm anyone who does not deserve it; Captain America tried hard to form this collection ego on the computer.
[Warning] In the end, perhaps the mild-mannered Agent Phil Coulson, a man without a mad skills who happens to be the biggest hero of them all. As the real Avengers struggle for a united, fighting each other, Coulson forced to confront Loki himself, a confrontation that did not end well. But even at death, man is upright.
"You're going to lose," said Coulson.
"Is It True?" Loki taunts.
"We are short of confidence," his agent, and fire off a final decision said.
To his last breath, Coulson convinced and convicted, the Avengers could be a hero that the world needs. And, in part, through their sacrifice, they did just that.Spiritual content
Loki and Thor are both referred to repeatedly as "a god." And there is a lot of talk about power and almost eternity. But as we learned in Thor, this characterization is misleading. Thor is alien to power much higher than humans'. But in reality it is not God, and when you use the word God here is quality, such as the Black Widow said Thor Loki and Captain America were "basically a god."
However, Cap add another addendum. "There is only one God," he said, "and I'm pretty sure he was not dressed like that."
When Loki called himself as a god, the Hulk has a physical problem with the statement-picking and hitting him on the floor, like a 5 year old with a rag doll. "God is so fragile," Hulk said dismissively.
Elsewhere, the Avengers want to get their hands in a bucket and unlimited mysterious power called the Tesseract, and some tried cube as if God himself. "It is more than knowledge," Selvig, a scientist says. "It is true." That said, the mind Selvig is under the influence of Loki at the time, so it's hard to tell whether he means it or not.
Reference is made to yoga. We see the religious iconography of the various religions. Tony-check the name of the prophet Jonah.Sexual Content
Black Widow and Pepper Pots, especially, underwear tight clothing, low cut sometimes. Stark and Potts (interest / assistant Love) kisses and suggestive pepper seems to whisper in his ear. Tony says, "Call your mom Can you bunk again.?" A joke made on "performance issues."
After the Hulk becomes Banner again, we see him sitting in the debris field, sans clothing. He pulled up his pants after someone noted that he "A-- buck-naked." (See legs and chest.)Content violence
The Avengers focuses on a group of superfolks that, basically, struggling to make a living. We saw people being beaten, kicked, thrown, hit and destroyed clunked, denting, beaten, knees, stabbed, shot (with arrows, bullets and guns ray) and evaporated. There are several scenes of mass struggle, and the climactic battle seems to last about 45 minutes (perhaps exaggerated, but not by much). We saw a strange car collided and spacecraft crashed into the building. There are explosions galore.
When we have the Black Widow, she was tied to a chair for questioning by the Russian public and thugs. A man slapped his face, and the general walked to a table full of torture instruments. He said he would have to deliver a message to someone, then he took a pair of pliers and said: "You may have to type" indicates he plans to keep his tongue. Black Widow quickly turns the tables, beating and knocking out most of interrogators (most of the time they tied her chair). He left generally hanging over the hole with his legs bound by a chain.
Loki stab, slice and remove a number of scientists and security guards. Although we do not see blood, the confrontation was more difficult than many of his fellow superhero showdown. And it's nothing compared to what happened when the Germans magnificent Loki crashes, throwing big shots down in what appears to be an ancient altar and a formidable instrument seeking to stall the side. (We saw people writhing and screaming heard.) Loki grins crazy as torture-progress driven by panic horrified spectators.
We learned after Loki has killed 80 people in two days. And it threatens to do more of it to more people. When he stabbed a man in the back, we saw blade protruding from his victim's chest.
We learned that Bruce Banner attempted suicide, he shot himself in the mouth, he said, but "the others" (Hulk) spitting bullets.Crude or Profane language
No f-word. Sometimes words are not. There are five or six applications each "h ---" and "d - n", and one or two from each of the "co", "p ---", "b - ch" and "b - tard ". Loki throws vulgar English "Quim" anatomical and misogynist putdown. The name of God without thinking stopped several times as "my God."Drug and Alcohol Content
Tony and Pepper drink champagne, and Tony offers Loki glasses before pouring a glass of whiskey. Tony asks Bruce if kept under control with the help of "big bag of weed."Other negative elements
Character lie and cheat. A joke is at the expense of adoption.Conclusion
From the beginning, we learn that the "Avengers Initiative" was canceled because of the personalities involved are too volatile, too unpredictable and too sick. Make sense. I mean, who in their right mind would trust the world's security, self-destructive narcissistic businessman; a scientist who becomes a monster really can not control; one of the heroes of World War II sights; and half god from another world, which may or may not show up?
We are not a team, said Banner. "We are a time bomb."
However, like every Christian knows, bad people can make a huge and positive difference in the world around them. Everyone can contribute. And it is that our differences make us strong. Christian also is the idea that the Avengers fought to preserve freedom given by God to mankind. The freedom to think for ourselves. The freedom to make our own decisions ... even when the decision does not honor God. Loki pursit think is our freedom that enslaves us. We can only be happy when we are subjugated to the god (like him) will take our own free will. Fury and his fighters have it all.
The Avengers, of course, no Bible studies. It is a movie, and that violence is not perfect. We heard bursts of profanity. We saw a woman being tortured and then slapping their way back to freedom. And while we can not forgive the things, we still see very instructive when these different characters begin to find ways to work together for the common good, when Tony Stark put aside their selfishness and follow orders for once in his life, when Hulk focus (mostly) people -the evil than good, when the team overall risk for a noble purpose.
Marvel's The Avengers is exuberant and high drop your eardrum, take-no-prisoners action movie. This is definitely a movie that is suitable for opening the hot popcorn season, considering the standard that has been set for the event. Unlike many other films in the tent pole summer, however, has some substance, a little soul. And very nice to see.