That opening shot where everyone looks amazing is a reference to something that’s done a lot in actual comic books called a “splash page.” It’s a snapshot of an action sequence where you see everything all at once. They sprinkle a few in here or there throughout the MCU, and that opening one is one of my favorites.
People got REAL upset when this came out, taking that line out of context and taking it to mean she meant that because she was sterile, but when you take it in context of the whole scene, Bruce says he's (most likely) sterile, and she was using it to relate to him, because not only is she a killer, and has killed LOTS of decent people, but also was sterilized because it makes her more efficient at it.
@@hellomark1 Yeah see, I never understood the hate over that. She's obviously done some terrible things in her life, things that haunt her to this day. Being sterile is just the cherry on top. She's been trying to redeem herself for a long time, just like Bruce has. She sees a like soul in him. And maybe even though they can't have kids, they can build a life together and continue towards healing. So obviously, I took it in a MUCH different way than others did lol.
It would've hit harder if we actually saw her do those terrible things. I also still think Black Widow was miscasted to this day, no matter how gorgeous Scarlett is. Florence Pugh already does a much better job
I think one thing I love about this movie and the introduction of Vision, something that doesn't get picked up a lot and you did a little bit, is the relationship between Vision and Thor... The way that Vision kindof admired and imitated Thor straight away, like somehow, some way, given the nature of his "creation", Vision understood that Thor is just different from the others, something more... From the way that in his confusion he went straight to attack what he probably perceived to be the "greatest threat" to him, to quickly calming down and going to Thor, copying his "style", his stance and knowing that the fastest way to showed them he wasn't "an enemy" was to get Thor on his side and use the team's respect for Thor as a way to convince them, by picking up the hammer. They showed and implied that several times Vision confided and sought out to talk with Thor, even tho he has access to all the world's knowledge, even went it came to making battle plans.
Well. I love Vision because he's a combination of Tony, Bruce, Thor, and of course him and Wanda share a connection as well. He has so many connections that make him unique and loveable, but also so powerful.
The relationship between Thor and Vision is interesting, but on the "hammer" issue, I think otherwise. I'll tell you why; it wasn't Thor's judgment Vision would have been appealing to, had he known about the hammer. It would have been Mjolnir's. I think Vision truly didn't realize what Mjolnir was when he picked it up. That's a big part of his character; he's very powerful, but utterly guileless, in the same way JARVIS never lied because he simply never had reason to. As Vision says, he was "born yesterday".
@@michaelccozens I didn't actually made much of a fuss about Vision picking up the hammer in my comment... I only mentioned in relation to how that helped him gain everybody's trust But you gotta remember that while, personality wise and "conscience" wise, Vision is, like you said, quite a blank slate... He does have a huge database of knowledge... Even if he isn't exactly Jarvis or Ultron, a lot of the data and knowledge he had, specially as Jarvis since it was Jarvis matrix and data that they use to create Vision, he still has and also has access to... I disagree with the idea that Vision didn't know what Mjolnir was or what it represented; he fully knew and had records of it... That's is evident in the fact that he used it and nothing else around him in order to make his point... because he knew the reaction that he might get by doing so The whole argument about Vision's worthiness is kindof pointless to me, given that he is just a freshly made artificial entity; so to me him actually being able to pick Mjolnir up isn't that shocking or impressive... What I really took away from that scene is what I mentioned on my comment; the fact that, based on his stored knowledge and based on his read of the people around him and the dynamics of the people around him, he surmised that the way to make them trust him was thru Thor... Get Thor's approval, get close to him and under his wing and protection, and the others would follow and trust Thor's judgement... Like I said, very evident and interesting to me how he singled out Thor and copied him so much, hanged out with him and looked for his counsel
One thing the MCU has done well is tying in so many things from previous movies to make the next ones better: "How were you guys planning on beating that?" "Together." "We'll lose." "Then we'll do that together too." That exchange between Tony and Steve from this movie, is one of my favorite things that they tie into a later movie. If you remember that scene, a later conversation is going to hit so so so much harder....
@@insertnamehere2746 I said that and people got mad at me but it's true If Sakovia didn't happen than later things would not happen the same. Tony makes bombs- bombs kill Wanda's parents- Wanda makes tony make Ultron - Ultron meteorites Sakovia. - SPOILERS happens
So many of the tiniest things tie into other movies and when you watch them again and again you see even more, they also tie into other MCU shows including Agents Of Shield. The one thing so many miss without google is how Clint Barton's wife ties in.
The girl in the dress in Sokovia (the one whose brother Hawkeye saves) had a few extra scenes earlier in the film that got cut. Wanda and Pietro were providing the locals in Sokovia with supplies and Pietro tried to impress her with a dress he;s taken all the way from Paris (until Wanda mentioned that she wasn't the only girl he'd given a dress to).
This is one of those movies that isn't terrible the first time you watch it but it isn't great either. However, what surprised me with this one is how well it ages. If you have time to go back and rewatch all of these movies after you are done with endgame in your own time, you'll find that you actually enjoy this one more than you remember enjoying it in my opinion.
Yeah.....i think that is because it has just the perfect amount of humour Like tehy took things seriously when they had to, but they were also relaxed when they were not fighting
I mean...I think that's what makes these movies great. There's so many call backs, and call backs, and call backs, to nearly every movie in this franchise later on that each movie, and even yes, most shows, are a must watch. It's a big project for new comers, but with some amazing pay offs. And I always thought Ultron was just as equally as compelling villain, if not more so, than Loki was in the first avengers. Like I think Tom Hiddelston does a great job of course as Loki, but I also think James Spader is awesome and creepy as Ultron.
Tony’s comments to Steve about “to end the fight, so we can go home” hit Steve. Because he doesn’t get to go home. Home has passed in the past. No wonder he ripped the log apart.
Veronica is a reference to the Archie comics, and now more recently the CW series. Betty and Veronica were Archie's two main love interests. In The Incredible Hulk, Betty was Bruce's love interest, and here he has Veronica to take care of Hulk.
Colette, your'e the first reactor to get that Thanos was remote controlling Ultron the whole movie with the Sceptre's mind stone, which he gave to Loki.
Actually, Ahab's not a biblical reference. It's the name of one of the main characters from "Moby Dick" an American novel published in the mid-19th century. This movie got some mixed reactions from fans when it came out, just because it felt a little crowded. To be fair, it does lay the foundation for a few more movies down the line. This is the only Avengers film to date that wasn't scored by Alan Silvestri. For this one, they got Brian Tyler (who had previously scored Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World) with some contributions from Danny Elfman (who had previously scored most Tim Burton films, including the first two Batman films, and also the first two Sam Raimi Spider-man films)
Ultron was Tonys' mistake, not something Thanos created. Thanos was remarking about the failure on Lokis part to take the Earth and give Thanos the infinity stones
FUN FACT: Scarlett Johannson was Pregnant While Filming this Movie! Imagine her Daughter (Rose Daurtac) Growing up watching this Movie knowing that "The Black Widow" was carrying her throughout the Movie! Especially hearing about "The Graduation".
Ultron had no connection to Thanos xD Ultron was a program built with command "Save the world" and when he read through all history and data, he found out that humans were the biggest threat to this world and they needed to be wiped out to save the world. Tony laughed in that scene when he realized that the command he put on Ultron backfired.
My first mcu movie in theaters was the first avengers movie and I watched very single one in theaters since then, I always liked this movie especially on re watches despite what the general consensus about this movie is, I especially like the grounded scenes at Haweye's home
Rewatching these I pick up on little things and future call backs. They’ve really created a connected world never seen before in cinema. Amazing. Great reaction! Oh, and when Tony said “I’ll hold your own” he was talking about Rhodey’s…War Machine…
It’s crazy the amount of small things I pick up after watching everything and going back to rewatch. Can’t say what exactly without spoiling anything but this avengers movie grows on me more and more as years go by
A couple things to keep in mind about Vision picking up Thor's Hammer. "Worthy" is determined by Odin's definition when he casted the spell on the hammer, so what is worthy is likely tailored to what he wanted Thor to be. Second, Vision was just born and, while Jarvis has a past, Vision is a separate being and had no time to become unworthy in the eye of Odin. His only actions so far was to be confused for a moment and then try to save the world. The hammer wasn't wrong. Vision was worthy as far as Odin was concerned.
People have some fucked-up ideas about what it means to be "worthy" of Mjölnir. I couldn't even _begin_ to count the morons I've seen gushing about how _their_ favourite character should be able to lift it because they're so good, or so pure, or so innocent. Like Spider-man; "Oh, Peter Parker is so good and pure and innocent, he _must_ be worthy!" No, he's _too_ innocent, he's not willing to kill his enemy even as a last resort. That's why he is _not_ worthy. Thor _is_ willing, Vision _is_ willing, Steve _is_ willing, that's why they are worthy.
@@WJS774 well in no way home spider man did try to kill green goblin so he will kill if his limit break and Peter is somewhat not worthy as he wanted to wipe the memory of every single person on earth without even consulting his friends just to get them to college. If spider man is to be worthy he still got a lot more learning to do.
Quicksilver is essentially Marvel's version of the Flash, and in the comics, he and Wanda are Magneto's kids. They're Eastern European, not Russian, that Slavic accent is similar though
My favorite thing about ultron and his god complex is that he's kinda right? He's the consciousness of the infinity stones, that's why Tony found him in the mind stone, and what does Tony do with him? Rip him out of the stone and put him in a USB drive, that's why he's so obsessed with building himself a body with the stone in it, so he can be "complete" again
Great reaction! This movie has a special place in my heart, my son and I saw it together on Mother’s Day in the theater, it was awesome on the big screen. Plus I am a big James Spader fan, he portrays Ultron, you should look up some of his early work from the 80’s. He and RDJ are good friends and have starred in a few things when they were younger. Less Than Zero is a really good movie they were both in. A side note, Loki was working for Thanos in the first Avengers and is now in hiding from him by pretending to be Odin on Asgard as you saw at the end of Dark World. If you remember in the first Avengers Loki was warned by the “Other” a henchman for Thanos, that if Loki failed to get the tesseract then there would be no place Loki could hide from Thanos and that Loki would beg for something sweet as pain by the time Thanos was done with him.
I wouldn’t read too much in the biblical references. It’s more a reflection of the common knowledge of the culture of the writers. They’re only included to flesh out a character or to, as was the case in this film, used as a metaphor to illustrate a point colloquially. :-)
@@mikelarsen5836 I don’t think so. First, my initial impression of people is not dismissive. Second, most people are capable of understanding what the rest understand. It all depends on whether they’re curious and motivated to learn. And this young lady has clearly demonstrated an open mind and willingness to learn. The insult was distasteful, and reflective of a closed mind. Life in this world is tough enough as it is. We shouldn’t be working to make it even harder for others by belittling them. We should be lifting each other up and helping out. I’m disappointed.
15:52 Now that was the quickest and cutest way I've ever seen any girl react to Steve being able to so much as move Mjonir which either implied he's a little bit worthy or he was worthy but Steve didn't wanna show up Thor when he noticed it move.
AGH i love how much closer Lil Colette is getting to Phase 3!!!!! Also this Avenger movie was definitely the most campy one in comparison to all of them. They should’ve called it Weekend of Ultron lmao
Veronica is the instant-deploy station that was dropped by the space station. It provides extra emergency equipment like the containment cage, hulk-buster armor, and extra parts and limbs
Also, she may not be aware of the inside joke. Banner's love (last seen in The Incredible Hulk) was Betty Ross, daughter of General Thaddeus Ross. Archie Comics has the rivalry for Archie Andrews between Betty and Veronica. The failsafe of the Hulkbuster armor was kept in orbit under the callsign Veronica.
I love how marvel manages to give all these characters a story in one movie with however many characters we have like we got stuff with everyone no matter how small, hints at Cap's friend from Winter soldier looking for Bucky, Hulk and Nat, major stuff for Hawkeye didn't know he had a family they up the stakes and writing each film love it!
@@Narutoanime16g well Infinity War had a different director than Age of Ultron and Hawkeye wasn't in Infinity War. Joss Whedon the director wanted the Hawkeye family/farm scene and fought to have it in there, the Russo brothers just carried the torch
Couple items. Thanos wasn't behind Ultron. Strucker was, in a way. He was going to use the Mind Stone to create A.I. - but Tony beat him to it. So if they hadn't gotten the scepter, Strucker would have created Ultron on his own (or HYDRAs version of Ultron). Thanos just wants all six Infinity Stones. And Ahab wasn't in the Bible, he was in the novel Moby Dick. :o)
I always interpreted Steve's nightmare as his greatest fear was the war ending. Having to actually confront Peggy, fulfill someone romantically, not have a purpose a role. Since he became Cap he's literally done nothing else, he knows he does it better than others he can't trust but also cynically when he advocates against trying to prevent wars in general it's because it means there's no role for him.
I interpreted it in the way that his greatest fear is reality itself; that he will never live the life he always imagined to have. He is an outsider, displaced into unknown times, where violence and evil still prevail, only more in an insidious manner.
What Wanda did was play with Stark's mind to show him fear. That was a vision of what could have happened. That's what set Stark up to truly build Ultron with the scepter
They did Pietro or Quicksilver (depending on your comic affiliation) dirty here. There's no way he would ever get shot up by bullets as he moves way faster than they travel. To him the bullets look like they are moving in slow motion. There are numerous scenes in the comics of him running around and rearranging the pathways of bullets fired at people or changing their trajectories.
In the MATRIX, The guy who plays Morpheus is Laurence Fishburne. And in the Avengers, the guy who plays Nick Fury is Samuel L. Jackson 2 completely different people.
@@mikelarsen5836 its a joke in every marvel movie i have said it, i have made the same joke...will keep making the joke, if you have seen the matrix, they wear long black leather trench coats and look dressed in a similar way to NICKY FURY.
They also make lots of Historical and Greek or Roman myth references. It's kinda just what writers do draw on our cultural reference pool and the Bible is at least more universal than say Rip Van Winkle or Paul Bunyan or Johnny Appleseed. Also worth noting how much of their humor is very referential to other pop culture media. I think its a thing that definitely effects the way I tell stories, but I also think its a way they are able to cover so much ground so quickly. It used to be much more common in theatre and opera to use characters that everyone already knew as like an abstract representation of a well known kind of person, but since copyright got so long and hard (largely also thanks to Disney) the only way we can now get that tradition of storytelling back is within a megacorp like Disney, or to be so big it's a compliment and not a rip off. Some historical references - they reference the lend lease act in Civil War as a prominent element - Tony's quote "Peace in our time" is a very famous quote from Neville Chamberlain who was Prime minister of the UK right before WW2 who negotiated with Germany and France for Germany to annex the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia - basically on the promise that they wouldn't expand further. His claim was they prevented another World War (or Avengers movie in this case) but obviously then Hitler invaded Poland. In this case it's because the Mind Stone, or Loki's Scepter and Thanos clearly had an idea of this as a poison pill, or a sleeper cell on Earth taking advantage of their fears to bring ruin. - Ahab was actually referring to Moby Dick not the bible I think, he's looking for his white whale.
@@ColetteCherry ah ok ;-) , my family get them both mixed up all the time and i seen interviews with Samual L Jackson saying how they both act like each other when approached by a fan that gets it wrong , great reaction as always tho
My favorite part of this entire movie is thors face when the hammer moves a fraction of an inch when Steve is trying to pick it up. The look of absolute terror as he realizes someone else might be considered worthy (even if not yet fully)
Colette, i just figured out why they called this movie, Age of Ultron, he wanted all the humans dead and it would be just ultrons running around, and they named it after the marvel xmen comic book run, the Age of Apocalypse, when Prof X's son Legion went back in time and killed his father, so the Xmen never existed and the villain Apocalypse, who was originally defeated by the Xmen, was able to take over the world, and kill all the humans so there would be only mutants.
Thank you so much, #ColetteCherry, for uploading this awesome movie reaction. I love your content very much just because it's so amazing, and I really enjoy watching you react to different shows and movies.
One thing I like about Ultron here, is that at no point does he seem callous or unsympathetic to the Romanoff twins. Misinformed, perhaps, or naive, to their feelings, but he does seem to prioritize his consideration of them. I think he really considers them friends. We have no idea whether he may have had some plan to keep them safe (because once they discovered his intention, they never inquired), but I wouldn't be surprised. It does make him feel human, if in a very emotionally immature way.
Lol, Scarlett Witch or Wanda, is played by Elizabeth Olsen yes! She's Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen's younger sister (believe younger at least). :) Love her relationship with Clint and Vision especially. Please watch, before Avengers Endgame, the recap trailer (that just is a recap of all the previous movies), called "To The End". There are no spoilers at all in it, but the way it recaps everything is amazing with some very poignant and great dialogue over it.
Random thought. Hulk spits out a tooth during the fight with Hulkbuster/Stark. When Hulk eventually returns to Banner, does the lost tooth remain Hulk-sized or does it return to Human size?
Tony is laughing because he was so desperate to protect humans that he developed artificial intelligence to protect them. The artificial intelligente, using its logic, chose to get rid of all humanity to solve all their problems. Therefore, Tony used tne scepter knowing he was going to be told not to mess with forces he can't understand, which turned out to be true. He could never control Ultron. He took his concept of "peace in our times", twisted it and mixed it with his own goals.
Colette, did you notice Wanda's necklace, it has some red colored liquid in it, remember Thor saw four of the infinity stones in his dream, the red colored one was called the Ether and it was a liquid, i think she has some and that's why her magics are colored red.
Hey, Colette! "Avengers: Age of Ultron" is a massive film. It brings everything that precedes it together and launches the MCU into six new directions going forward while introducing eight new characters! The catalyst for all this change is a classic Avengers villain of their own making: the artificial intelligence known as Ultron bent on the extermination of organic life! The film loosely draws from the Avengers stories "Behold the Vision" and "Ultron Unlimited" with the key difference being that Ultron's creator was changed from Hank Pym aka Ant-Man in the comics to Tony Stark in the MCU. Director of "The Avengers", Joss Whedon, returns and very nearly succeeds at keeping all the plates spinning for this encore. He skillfully globetrots from New York to Johannesburg to Seoul to fictitious Sokovia in Eastern Europe for the breathless, apocalyptic climax! During an early scene of camaraderie, Whedon invites the audience to revel in the shared humanity of these larger-than-life figures while, in a later hallucinatory sequence, he exposes their inner frailties to us nearly shattering the team. It is this attention to character that invests us in the spectacle which Whedon provides in abundance with set pieces like the punishing Hulkbuster throwdown in Jo-burg, the exhilarating car chase and runaway train in Seoul, and the all-hands-on-deck, race-against-the-clock Battle of Sokovia on a floating chunk of continental Europe against rampaging robotic legions! Whedon even provides two team slow-motion money shots to bookend the film. The connective tissue is thick in this lynchpin chapter of the saga which has ties to six future stories: "Captain America: Civil War", "Black Widow", "Black Panther", "Thor: Ragnarok", "Avengers: Infinity War" and "WandaVision"! With so much happening, it is inevitable that certain elements get short shrift such as the Thor subplot while others remain questionable choices like the Hulk's romance with Natasha. That pairing is pure MCU and was never part of their comic history. One plot element that was drawn from Marvel's secondary Ultimate Universe was Hawkeye's secret family. In the original 616 Universe, Clint was an incorrigible tomcat who has bagged practically every female Avenger! Lol. It is also Hawkeye who gets, arguably, the best moment in the film when he delivers the greatest motivational speech ever in the heat of battle. The cast is appropriately huge and pulls from all the franchises to date. Robert Downey, Jr. returns as Tony Stark aka Iron Man with Don Cheadle as Col. James 'Rhodey' Rhodes aka War Machine and Paul Bettany as JARVIS who undergoes a major transformation becoming The Vision. A combination of synthetic organic components and inorganic vibranium controlled by an intellect that is part JARVIS, part Ultron and part Infinity Stone, he emerges as a mysterious and powerful presence sired by a villain yet capable of effortlessly lifting Mjolnir. The trope of an alien outsider who aspires to humanity is an old one but Bettany breathes fresh life into it with quiet thoughtfulness. Substituting JARVIS, Tony's new A.I., FRIDAY, is voiced by Kerry Condon. Chris Evans returns as Steve Rogers aka Captain America with Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson aka Falcon and Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter who appears in a vision. Chris Hemsworth returns as Thor Odinson aka Thor to portray the character in a straightforward manner for the last time. He is joined by Stellan Skarsgard as Dr. Erik Selvig and Idris Elba as Heimdall who appears in a vision. Mark Ruffalo returns as Bruce Banner aka Hulk with Lou Ferrigno again providing Hulk's roar. Scarlett Johansson returns as Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow whose Red Room past is briefly glimpsed in a vision that features one of her trainers, Madame B, played by Julie Delpy. Jeremy Renner returns as Clint Barton aka Hawkeye whose secret domestic life is revealed in the form of two kids and a pregnant wife, Laura Barton, played by Linda Cardellini. Representing the former SHIELD, Samuel L. Jackson returns as Col. Nick Fury with Cobie Smulders as former Agent and current Stark Industries employee Maria Hill as well as Aaron Himelstein as Specialist Cameron Klein who refused to launch the helicarriers at gunpoint in "Winter Soldier". Representing Hydra, Thomas Kretschmann reprises his "Winter Soldier" end-credit turn as Baron Wolfgang von Strucker as does Henry Goodman as Dr. List who portrayed his character between films on "Agents of SHIELD". Making their proper debut after their "Winter Soldier" end-credit appearance are Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Pietro Maximoff aka Quicksilver and Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch, the Sokovian fraternal twins and Hydra volunteers who survived being experimented on by the Chitauri Scepter. James Spader's silky voice and sardonic wit bring Ultron to vivid life as a menacing A.I. bent on exterminating everything organic to fulfill his programming of ensuring peace. As a disembodied intelligence, a collective drone legion or in his vibranium chassis, he is the most formidable opponent the Avengers have yet faced. Andy Serkis does a terrific turn as the unsavory Ulysses Klaue, a South African mercenary who loses an arm to Ultron and who introduces the concept of Wakanda. Claudia Kim plays Dr. Helen Cho whose research into synthetic skin proves instrumental in the development of Vision. Ingvild Deila, who was the physical template for the CGI Princess Leia in "Rogue One", has a bit part as a technician at the internet's World Hub in Oslo. Lastly, Josh Brolin returns as Thanos for the character's third appearance in the saga. TRIVIA: 1. As 20th-Century Fox studios owned the film rights to anything mutant-related in the Marvel Universe, Wanda and Pietro could not be identified as such although they are mutants in the comics. Instead, they were designated as 'enhanced' in the film. The characters were able to be incorporated into the MCU because they are Avengers in the comics which meant that both Disney and Fox had access to them. 2. Since Ultron is nine feet tall, James Spader wore a harness with two stalks that extended three feet above his head upon which two red balls were mounted to represent Ultron's eyes! Spader's scene partners had to direct their gaze at the red balls when acting opposite him. 3. While the JARVIS A.I. is actually an acronym that means "Just A Rather Very Intelligent System", the FRIDAY A.I. is both a reference to the '40's slang 'girl Friday' otherwise known as a secretary who provides invaluable support to her boss as well as the 1940 film "His Girl Friday" known for its snappy banter which is shared by Stark and his new operating system. 4. A motion capture performance artist pioneer known for Gollum, King Kong, Caesar and Snoke, Andy Serkis did double-duty as Ulysses Klaue and as technical consultant on ILM's new motion capture system called "Muse" which provided more expressive rendering for the Hulk and Ultron. EASTER EGGS: 1. In the comics, Dr. Helen Cho is the mother of Amadeus Cho, the seventh smartest person on the planet and a close friend to Hulk and Hercules! 2. When Ultron first meets the twins in the church, he is draped in a crimson cloth referencing his first appearance in the comics when he hid his robotic face with a red hood and went by the moniker of The Crimson Cowl! 3. The band playing during Cap's hallucination are identified as 'The Roy Thomas Players'. Roy Thomas was Marvel's editor-in-chief during the 1970s! 4. Four Infinity Stones have been seen in the saga so far but "Age of Ultron" reveals that the Tesseract and the Chitauri Scepter gem are containment units for their Stones much like the Orb in "Guardians of the Galaxy" while the Aether can crystallize into a concentrated ingot! CAMEO: 1. Stan Lee appears as a World War II veteran at the Avengers Tower party who unwisely imbibes Thor's potent Asgardian ale leaving him unable to walk and mumbling his catch-phrase 'Excelsior'! END-CREDIT SCENE: 1. Thanos reaches into an aperture and removes an Infinity Gauntlet which he puts on and balls into a fist resolving to handle matters personally. The next chronological stop in the MCU are Episodes 20-22 of Season 2 of "Agents of SHIELD" which concludes the second season of the show.
Also Elizabeth Olsen as wanda has been amazing, Wanda in general is one of the more powerful marvel characters
Damn 69 exactly, I love how this community is
and that stupid wanda tried to kill everyone and become the worst character
She wasn't stupid, the writers were. They completely ruined her.@@ItzGameStar
I thought it was wild when I learned that she is a sister to the Olsen twins.
That opening shot where everyone looks amazing is a reference to something that’s done a lot in actual comic books called a “splash page.” It’s a snapshot of an action sequence where you see everything all at once. They sprinkle a few in here or there throughout the MCU, and that opening one is one of my favorites.
"You still think you're the only monster on the Team?" Damn, that hit me right in the feels.
People got REAL upset when this came out, taking that line out of context and taking it to mean she meant that because she was sterile, but when you take it in context of the whole scene, Bruce says he's (most likely) sterile, and she was using it to relate to him, because not only is she a killer, and has killed LOTS of decent people, but also was sterilized because it makes her more efficient at it.
@@hellomark1 yea, this is around the time when the everything is sexist crowd were running riot
@@hellomark1 Yeah see, I never understood the hate over that. She's obviously done some terrible things in her life, things that haunt her to this day. Being sterile is just the cherry on top. She's been trying to redeem herself for a long time, just like Bruce has. She sees a like soul in him. And maybe even though they can't have kids, they can build a life together and continue towards healing. So obviously, I took it in a MUCH different way than others did lol.
It would've hit harder if we actually saw her do those terrible things. I also still think Black Widow was miscasted to this day, no matter how gorgeous Scarlett is. Florence Pugh already does a much better job
I think one thing I love about this movie and the introduction of Vision, something that doesn't get picked up a lot and you did a little bit, is the relationship between Vision and Thor... The way that Vision kindof admired and imitated Thor straight away, like somehow, some way, given the nature of his "creation", Vision understood that Thor is just different from the others, something more... From the way that in his confusion he went straight to attack what he probably perceived to be the "greatest threat" to him, to quickly calming down and going to Thor, copying his "style", his stance and knowing that the fastest way to showed them he wasn't "an enemy" was to get Thor on his side and use the team's respect for Thor as a way to convince them, by picking up the hammer.
They showed and implied that several times Vision confided and sought out to talk with Thor, even tho he has access to all the world's knowledge, even went it came to making battle plans.
Well. I love Vision because he's a combination of Tony, Bruce, Thor, and of course him and Wanda share a connection as well. He has so many connections that make him unique and loveable, but also so powerful.
@@CrazeeAdam don't forget the mind stone and Jarvis
The relationship between Thor and Vision is interesting, but on the "hammer" issue, I think otherwise. I'll tell you why; it wasn't Thor's judgment Vision would have been appealing to, had he known about the hammer. It would have been Mjolnir's.
I think Vision truly didn't realize what Mjolnir was when he picked it up. That's a big part of his character; he's very powerful, but utterly guileless, in the same way JARVIS never lied because he simply never had reason to. As Vision says, he was "born yesterday".
@@michaelccozens I didn't actually made much of a fuss about Vision picking up the hammer in my comment... I only mentioned in relation to how that helped him gain everybody's trust
But you gotta remember that while, personality wise and "conscience" wise, Vision is, like you said, quite a blank slate... He does have a huge database of knowledge... Even if he isn't exactly Jarvis or Ultron, a lot of the data and knowledge he had, specially as Jarvis since it was Jarvis matrix and data that they use to create Vision, he still has and also has access to... I disagree with the idea that Vision didn't know what Mjolnir was or what it represented; he fully knew and had records of it... That's is evident in the fact that he used it and nothing else around him in order to make his point... because he knew the reaction that he might get by doing so
The whole argument about Vision's worthiness is kindof pointless to me, given that he is just a freshly made artificial entity; so to me him actually being able to pick Mjolnir up isn't that shocking or impressive... What I really took away from that scene is what I mentioned on my comment; the fact that, based on his stored knowledge and based on his read of the people around him and the dynamics of the people around him, he surmised that the way to make them trust him was thru Thor... Get Thor's approval, get close to him and under his wing and protection, and the others would follow and trust Thor's judgement... Like I said, very evident and interesting to me how he singled out Thor and copied him so much, hanged out with him and looked for his counsel
One thing the MCU has done well is tying in so many things from previous movies to make the next ones better:
"How were you guys planning on beating that?"
"Together."
"We'll lose."
"Then we'll do that together too."
That exchange between Tony and Steve from this movie, is one of my favorite things that they tie into a later movie. If you remember that scene, a later conversation is going to hit so so so much harder....
Yeah but in all seriousness that was Tony's fault
@@insertnamehere2746 I said that and people got mad at me but it's true If Sakovia didn't happen than later things would not happen the same. Tony makes bombs- bombs kill Wanda's parents- Wanda makes tony make Ultron - Ultron meteorites Sakovia. - SPOILERS happens
So many of the tiniest things tie into other movies and when you watch them again and again you see even more, they also tie into other MCU shows including Agents Of Shield. The one thing so many miss without google is how Clint Barton's wife ties in.
james spaders voice for ultron was perfect
The girl in the dress in Sokovia (the one whose brother Hawkeye saves) had a few extra scenes earlier in the film that got cut. Wanda and Pietro were providing the locals in Sokovia with supplies and Pietro tried to impress her with a dress he;s taken all the way from Paris (until Wanda mentioned that she wasn't the only girl he'd given a dress to).
This is one of those movies that isn't terrible the first time you watch it but it isn't great either. However, what surprised me with this one is how well it ages. If you have time to go back and rewatch all of these movies after you are done with endgame in your own time, you'll find that you actually enjoy this one more than you remember enjoying it in my opinion.
Yess
Yeah.....i think that is because it has just the perfect amount of humour
Like tehy took things seriously when they had to, but they were also relaxed when they were not fighting
I mean...I think that's what makes these movies great. There's so many call backs, and call backs, and call backs, to nearly every movie in this franchise later on that each movie, and even yes, most shows, are a must watch. It's a big project for new comers, but with some amazing pay offs. And I always thought Ultron was just as equally as compelling villain, if not more so, than Loki was in the first avengers. Like I think Tom Hiddelston does a great job of course as Loki, but I also think James Spader is awesome and creepy as Ultron.
this was my favourite movie as a 9 yo. i still really like it. i guess its just cus the tone was a little more tense when ultron was introduced
ESPECIALLY after What If. JEEZ the death toll
The Stan Lee Cameo in this movie is favorite cameo in his entire life.
Excelsior!
Tony’s comments to Steve about “to end the fight, so we can go home” hit Steve. Because he doesn’t get to go home. Home has passed in the past.
No wonder he ripped the log apart.
Veronica is a reference to the Archie comics, and now more recently the CW series. Betty and Veronica were Archie's two main love interests. In The Incredible Hulk, Betty was Bruce's love interest, and here he has Veronica to take care of Hulk.
Holy... i never connected that. Great catch 👍
I totally forgot about the "Prima Nocta" quote by Iron Man while trying to lift Thor's Hammer. That's hilarious!
“Why did Hulk turn Natasha off?”
Well, she did push him off a ledge to get the Hulk.
the Helicarrior is curtesy of The Agents of Shield. Marvel's first MCU tv show, with the First Live Action Asian SuperHero: Quake aka Daisy Johnson
vision lifting the hammer is like an elevator lifting it, not an organic being
Cap said it as a joke, but that was the actual logic behind it 😂
Colette, your'e the first reactor to get that Thanos was remote controlling Ultron the whole movie with the Sceptre's mind stone, which he gave to Loki.
1:23 I have to admit this is by far the BEST reaction I've seen to that shot. Epic! 👍
Actually, Ahab's not a biblical reference. It's the name of one of the main characters from "Moby Dick" an American novel published in the mid-19th century.
This movie got some mixed reactions from fans when it came out, just because it felt a little crowded. To be fair, it does lay the foundation for a few more movies down the line.
This is the only Avengers film to date that wasn't scored by Alan Silvestri. For this one, they got Brian Tyler (who had previously scored Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World) with some contributions from Danny Elfman (who had previously scored most Tim Burton films, including the first two Batman films, and also the first two Sam Raimi Spider-man films)
Ahab in Moby Dick was named after King Ahab from the Bible though,
Ultron was Tonys' mistake, not something Thanos created. Thanos was remarking about the failure on Lokis part to take the Earth and give Thanos the infinity stones
FUN FACT: Scarlett Johannson was Pregnant While Filming this Movie! Imagine her Daughter (Rose Daurtac) Growing up watching this Movie knowing that "The Black Widow" was carrying her throughout the Movie! Especially hearing about "The Graduation".
Ultron had no connection to Thanos xD Ultron was a program built with command "Save the world" and when he read through all history and data, he found out that humans were the biggest threat to this world and they needed to be wiped out to save the world. Tony laughed in that scene when he realized that the command he put on Ultron backfired.
My first mcu movie in theaters was the first avengers movie and I watched very single one in theaters since then, I always liked this movie especially on re watches despite what the general consensus about this movie is, I especially like the grounded scenes at Haweye's home
Rewatching these I pick up on little things and future call backs. They’ve really created a connected world never seen before in cinema. Amazing. Great reaction! Oh, and when Tony said “I’ll hold your own” he was talking about Rhodey’s…War Machine…
It’s crazy the amount of small things I pick up after watching everything and going back to rewatch. Can’t say what exactly without spoiling anything but this avengers movie grows on me more and more as years go by
A couple things to keep in mind about Vision picking up Thor's Hammer. "Worthy" is determined by Odin's definition when he casted the spell on the hammer, so what is worthy is likely tailored to what he wanted Thor to be. Second, Vision was just born and, while Jarvis has a past, Vision is a separate being and had no time to become unworthy in the eye of Odin. His only actions so far was to be confused for a moment and then try to save the world. The hammer wasn't wrong. Vision was worthy as far as Odin was concerned.
People have some fucked-up ideas about what it means to be "worthy" of Mjölnir. I couldn't even _begin_ to count the morons I've seen gushing about how _their_ favourite character should be able to lift it because they're so good, or so pure, or so innocent. Like Spider-man; "Oh, Peter Parker is so good and pure and innocent, he _must_ be worthy!" No, he's _too_ innocent, he's not willing to kill his enemy even as a last resort. That's why he is _not_ worthy. Thor _is_ willing, Vision _is_ willing, Steve _is_ willing, that's why they are worthy.
@@WJS774 well in no way home spider man did try to kill green goblin so he will kill if his limit break and Peter is somewhat not worthy as he wanted to wipe the memory of every single person on earth without even consulting his friends just to get them to college. If spider man is to be worthy he still got a lot more learning to do.
I love the opening shot of age of Ultron it's amazing
Quicksilver is essentially Marvel's version of the Flash, and in the comics, he and Wanda are Magneto's kids. They're Eastern European, not Russian, that Slavic accent is similar though
Technically, they are Transian as they were born on Mount Wundagore.
My favorite thing about ultron and his god complex is that he's kinda right? He's the consciousness of the infinity stones, that's why Tony found him in the mind stone, and what does Tony do with him? Rip him out of the stone and put him in a USB drive, that's why he's so obsessed with building himself a body with the stone in it, so he can be "complete" again
Great reaction! This movie has a special place in my heart, my son and I saw it together on Mother’s Day in the theater, it was awesome on the big screen. Plus I am a big James Spader fan, he portrays Ultron, you should look up some of his early work from the 80’s. He and RDJ are good friends and have starred in a few things when they were younger. Less Than Zero is a really good movie they were both in.
A side note, Loki was working for Thanos in the first Avengers and is now in hiding from him by pretending to be Odin on Asgard as you saw at the end of Dark World. If you remember in the first Avengers Loki was warned by the “Other” a henchman for Thanos, that if Loki failed to get the tesseract then there would be no place Loki could hide from Thanos and that Loki would beg for something sweet as pain by the time Thanos was done with him.
Love these reactions... cant wait for you to watch Guardians 2!! Keep up the great work Colette!
THANK YOU!!!!!!
James Spader was a brilliant voice choice. Just like Red.
I cannot wait for your reaction to Avengers: Infinity War & Avengers: Endgame.
I love how tonys biggest fear was that he would live while all his friends went down in battle. He would rather go down with them than live without
1 thing you should know about Ultron: He NEVER dies!
"He is not a God."
Infinity Ultron - Ah but you see, I am much more than a God.
I wouldn’t read too much in the biblical references. It’s more a reflection of the common knowledge of the culture of the writers. They’re only included to flesh out a character or to, as was the case in this film, used as a metaphor to illustrate a point colloquially.
:-)
@@mikelarsen5836 I don’t think so. First, my initial impression of people is not dismissive.
Second, most people are capable of understanding what the rest understand. It all depends on whether they’re curious and motivated to learn. And this young lady has clearly demonstrated an open mind and willingness to learn.
The insult was distasteful, and reflective of a closed mind. Life in this world is tough enough as it is. We shouldn’t be working to make it even harder for others by belittling them. We should be lifting each other up and helping out. I’m disappointed.
15:52 Now that was the quickest and cutest way I've ever seen any girl react to Steve being able to so much as move Mjonir which either implied he's a little bit worthy or he was worthy but Steve didn't wanna show up Thor when he noticed it move.
agent Coulson helped getting Fury the ship ready in time
something to remember about the hulk, he has to feel all the pain of the damage he takes he has no protection.
Make sure to pay attention to the infinity stones trust me it’s gonna get good
AGH i love how much closer Lil Colette is getting to Phase 3!!!!!
Also this Avenger movie was definitely the most campy one in comparison to all of them. They should’ve called it Weekend of Ultron lmao
first one was way campier
Veronica is the instant-deploy station that was dropped by the space station. It provides extra emergency equipment like the containment cage, hulk-buster armor, and extra parts and limbs
Also, she may not be aware of the inside joke. Banner's love (last seen in The Incredible Hulk) was Betty Ross, daughter of General Thaddeus Ross. Archie Comics has the rivalry for Archie Andrews between Betty and Veronica. The failsafe of the Hulkbuster armor was kept in orbit under the callsign Veronica.
33:44 Montain girl "Boys Meets World. I love that show😉
Vision lifted it because it,s a machine and only worthy living creatures can lift it
I love how marvel manages to give all these characters a story in one movie with however many characters we have like we got stuff with everyone no matter how small, hints at Cap's friend from Winter soldier looking for Bucky, Hulk and Nat, major stuff for Hawkeye didn't know he had a family they up the stakes and writing each film love it!
the director had to fight for Hawkeye's family to be in the movie, Marvel actually didn't want it in there originally
@@VColossalV wonder why think they would have just left it unsaid and left it in infinity war ?
@@Narutoanime16g well Infinity War had a different director than Age of Ultron and Hawkeye wasn't in Infinity War. Joss Whedon the director wanted the Hawkeye family/farm scene and fought to have it in there, the Russo brothers just carried the torch
@@VColossalV oh yea I meant end game lol, I wonder if they never mentioned any of his family stuff they could have made him and black widow a thing
Enjoying your reactions to these movies , already looking forward to the next one 😊
Couple items. Thanos wasn't behind Ultron. Strucker was, in a way. He was going to use the Mind Stone to create A.I. - but Tony beat him to it. So if they hadn't gotten the scepter, Strucker would have created Ultron on his own (or HYDRAs version of Ultron). Thanos just wants all six Infinity Stones. And Ahab wasn't in the Bible, he was in the novel Moby Dick. :o)
I always had the impression that Wheddon´s idea is that Thanos was behind Ultron, but he left and it never became cannon.
Grew up watching it and love it also I feel bad and pity Ultron also I believe he loved Wanda and that's why Vision falls for her
I always interpreted Steve's nightmare as his greatest fear was the war ending. Having to actually confront Peggy, fulfill someone romantically, not have a purpose a role. Since he became Cap he's literally done nothing else, he knows he does it better than others he can't trust but also cynically when he advocates against trying to prevent wars in general it's because it means there's no role for him.
I interpreted it in the way that his greatest fear is reality itself; that he will never live the life he always imagined to have.
He is an outsider, displaced into unknown times, where violence and evil still prevail, only more in an insidious manner.
What Wanda did was play with Stark's mind to show him fear. That was a vision of what could have happened. That's what set Stark up to truly build Ultron with the scepter
52:34 🤣 I love "Collette she is so fun to watch movies with. 💗
They did Pietro or Quicksilver (depending on your comic affiliation) dirty here. There's no way he would ever get shot up by bullets as he moves way faster than they travel. To him the bullets look like they are moving in slow motion. There are numerous scenes in the comics of him running around and rearranging the pathways of bullets fired at people or changing their trajectories.
"You aren't god" But he's doing a pretty good impression.
In the MATRIX, The guy who plays Morpheus is Laurence Fishburne.
And in the Avengers, the guy who plays Nick Fury is Samuel L. Jackson
2 completely different people.
its a running joke :) hehe
@@mikelarsen5836 its a joke in every marvel movie i have said it, i have made the same joke...will keep making the joke, if you have seen the matrix, they wear long black leather trench coats and look dressed in a similar way to NICKY FURY.
@@ColetteCherry Remind me again, have you watched the 14 episodes of Firefly? If not, I can't share a point of trivia...
@@CaptainFrost32 I have not watched :)
The introduction to one of the best characters in the MCU (Wanda)
Damn Hawkeye got done kinda dirty in this reaction feel like we barely got any of him cut out most of his dialogue
DANG will keep that in mind for the future films! love me some Hawkeye
They also make lots of Historical and Greek or Roman myth references. It's kinda just what writers do draw on our cultural reference pool and the Bible is at least more universal than say Rip Van Winkle or Paul Bunyan or Johnny Appleseed. Also worth noting how much of their humor is very referential to other pop culture media. I think its a thing that definitely effects the way I tell stories, but I also think its a way they are able to cover so much ground so quickly. It used to be much more common in theatre and opera to use characters that everyone already knew as like an abstract representation of a well known kind of person, but since copyright got so long and hard (largely also thanks to Disney) the only way we can now get that tradition of storytelling back is within a megacorp like Disney, or to be so big it's a compliment and not a rip off.
Some historical references
- they reference the lend lease act in Civil War as a prominent element
- Tony's quote "Peace in our time" is a very famous quote from Neville Chamberlain who was Prime minister of the UK right before WW2 who negotiated with Germany and France for Germany to annex the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia - basically on the promise that they wouldn't expand further. His claim was they prevented another World War (or Avengers movie in this case) but obviously then Hitler invaded Poland. In this case it's because the Mind Stone, or Loki's Scepter and Thanos clearly had an idea of this as a poison pill, or a sleeper cell on Earth taking advantage of their fears to bring ruin.
- Ahab was actually referring to Moby Dick not the bible I think, he's looking for his white whale.
You should watch Starwars 1 - 6, some very emotional moments there!
Hope one day for clone wars... Sooo emotional thing
The chase where they went across the city, was in Korea!
1:11 He's my favorite.I'm so happy to hear you say that. 😃🙌
Once again, Nick Fury is played by Samuel Jackson. The Matrix guy is Laurence Fishburne.
She hopefully will get that when she gets to antman and the wasp 😂
I KNOW THIS lol its a running joke i say it in every movie :) haha they have the same outfit on :_) hehe
It’s because of the clothes he was wearing. They are very similar outfits
@@ColetteCherry ah ok ;-) , my family get them both mixed up all the time and i seen interviews with Samual L Jackson saying how they both act like each other when approached by a fan that gets it wrong , great reaction as always tho
@@pozzyuk7504 We should have a gag reel scene where SLJ rolls Pietro over on the helicarrier and goes through his pockets.
"What's in your wallet?"
My favorite part of this entire movie is thors face when the hammer moves a fraction of an inch when Steve is trying to pick it up.
The look of absolute terror as he realizes someone else might be considered worthy (even if not yet fully)
Vision always has the best life quotes. Especially in WandaVision series.
36:55😂 "he look so different without his MATRIX get up"
Hello "Collette my friendee,I can't wait to finally watch this with you.
Ain’t no party like a Tony Stark party, cuz a Tony Stark party IS POTENTIALLY FATAL!
Wanda Maximoff's (The Scarlet Witch) mutant power is the landing of reality much like the reality stone
My God, your screams lol. Appreciate the fact that you genuinely enjoy these movies 🙂
These movies just keep on getting better
Colette, i just figured out why they called this movie, Age of Ultron, he wanted all the humans dead and it would be just ultrons running around, and they named it after the marvel xmen comic book run, the Age of Apocalypse, when Prof X's son Legion went back in time and killed his father, so the Xmen never existed and the villain Apocalypse, who was originally defeated by the Xmen, was able to take over the world, and kill all the humans so there would be only mutants.
LOL! "Couldn't think of more 'Shakespeare' to say?" "Jealous in honor. Sudden and quick to quarrel, even in the cannon's mouth!"
Wanda! ❤️ The birth of a witch!
I don't care what everybody says. This movie is fucking awesome.
Thank you so much, #ColetteCherry, for uploading this awesome movie reaction. I love your content very much just because it's so amazing, and I really enjoy watching you react to different shows and movies.
I forgot how perfect Elizabeth looked as Wanda in this movie. They should've kept that base style for her in future movies
52:30 that was unexpected 💀
One thing I like about Ultron here, is that at no point does he seem callous or unsympathetic to the Romanoff twins. Misinformed, perhaps, or naive, to their feelings, but he does seem to prioritize his consideration of them. I think he really considers them friends. We have no idea whether he may have had some plan to keep them safe (because once they discovered his intention, they never inquired), but I wouldn't be surprised. It does make him feel human, if in a very emotionally immature way.
There gonna be in the next one
Awesome. Thanks
I loved this Recation!!! This is Rodereck by the way.
28:12 Here’s what happens when Hulk gets drunk.
ultron commander!
Lol, Scarlett Witch or Wanda, is played by Elizabeth Olsen yes! She's Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen's younger sister (believe younger at least). :) Love her relationship with Clint and Vision especially.
Please watch, before Avengers Endgame, the recap trailer (that just is a recap of all the previous movies), called "To The End". There are no spoilers at all in it, but the way it recaps everything is amazing with some very poignant and great dialogue over it.
Random thought. Hulk spits out a tooth during the fight with Hulkbuster/Stark. When Hulk eventually returns to Banner, does the lost tooth remain Hulk-sized or does it return to Human size?
She had so many that's what she said moments😁
I always feel so bad for hulk. Hardly anyone ever respects him as an individual. No wonder he gets so mad when people call him Bruce!
Ironically, whenever Betty calls Hulk Bruce, Hulk does not get upset.
Btw the android is called vision, he is a combination of Jarvis and ultron. He’s a new being all together.
We have Age of Ultron because Tony always learn from his (the Avengers - wormhole scene) mistakes… and yet created another mistake
That room is so pink I can smell cotton candy by just looking at it
22:59 I loved her reaction.
You don’t know if the vision can still come true
The Iron Legion aren't suits, BTW. They're just drones.
Thx for the subtitles.
Velma from Scooby Doo always looked lovely
You’re right Elizabeth Olsen who plays Wanda is the Olsen Twins younger sister.
The twins are Magneto's children and actually mutants.
Tony is laughing because he was so desperate to protect humans that he developed artificial intelligence to protect them. The artificial intelligente, using its logic, chose to get rid of all humanity to solve all their problems. Therefore, Tony used tne scepter knowing he was going to be told not to mess with forces he can't understand, which turned out to be true. He could never control Ultron. He took his concept of "peace in our times", twisted it and mixed it with his own goals.
Colette, did you notice Wanda's necklace, it has some red colored liquid in it, remember Thor saw four of the infinity stones in his dream, the red colored one was called the Ether and it was a liquid, i think she has some and that's why her magics are colored red.
Have you not seen the mcu? As she has nothing to do with the ether
She has the name Scarlet Witch because of the color of her power displays, not because of her neclace.
I havent check but you really need to see marvel what if please
Please make sure to watch Infinity War and Engame. Because we have to see the beginning of what happens next.
Hey, Colette! "Avengers: Age of Ultron" is a massive film. It brings everything that precedes it together and launches the MCU into six new directions going forward while introducing eight new characters! The catalyst for all this change is a classic Avengers villain of their own making: the artificial intelligence known as Ultron bent on the extermination of organic life! The film loosely draws from the Avengers stories "Behold the Vision" and "Ultron Unlimited" with the key difference being that Ultron's creator was changed from Hank Pym aka Ant-Man in the comics to Tony Stark in the MCU.
Director of "The Avengers", Joss Whedon, returns and very nearly succeeds at keeping all the plates spinning for this encore. He skillfully globetrots from New York to Johannesburg to Seoul to fictitious Sokovia in Eastern Europe for the breathless, apocalyptic climax! During an early scene of camaraderie, Whedon invites the audience to revel in the shared humanity of these larger-than-life figures while, in a later hallucinatory sequence, he exposes their inner frailties to us nearly shattering the team. It is this attention to character that invests us in the spectacle which Whedon provides in abundance with set pieces like the punishing Hulkbuster throwdown in Jo-burg, the exhilarating car chase and runaway train in Seoul, and the all-hands-on-deck, race-against-the-clock Battle of Sokovia on a floating chunk of continental Europe against rampaging robotic legions! Whedon even provides two team slow-motion money shots to bookend the film. The connective tissue is thick in this lynchpin chapter of the saga which has ties to six future stories: "Captain America: Civil War", "Black Widow", "Black Panther", "Thor: Ragnarok", "Avengers: Infinity War" and "WandaVision"! With so much happening, it is inevitable that certain elements get short shrift such as the Thor subplot while others remain questionable choices like the Hulk's romance with Natasha. That pairing is pure MCU and was never part of their comic history. One plot element that was drawn from Marvel's secondary Ultimate Universe was Hawkeye's secret family. In the original 616 Universe, Clint was an incorrigible tomcat who has bagged practically every female Avenger! Lol. It is also Hawkeye who gets, arguably, the best moment in the film when he delivers the greatest motivational speech ever in the heat of battle.
The cast is appropriately huge and pulls from all the franchises to date. Robert Downey, Jr. returns as Tony Stark aka Iron Man with Don Cheadle as Col. James 'Rhodey' Rhodes aka War Machine and Paul Bettany as JARVIS who undergoes a major transformation becoming The Vision. A combination of synthetic organic components and inorganic vibranium controlled by an intellect that is part JARVIS, part Ultron and part Infinity Stone, he emerges as a mysterious and powerful presence sired by a villain yet capable of effortlessly lifting Mjolnir. The trope of an alien outsider who aspires to humanity is an old one but Bettany breathes fresh life into it with quiet thoughtfulness. Substituting JARVIS, Tony's new A.I., FRIDAY, is voiced by Kerry Condon. Chris Evans returns as Steve Rogers aka Captain America with Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson aka Falcon and Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter who appears in a vision. Chris Hemsworth returns as Thor Odinson aka Thor to portray the character in a straightforward manner for the last time. He is joined by Stellan Skarsgard as Dr. Erik Selvig and Idris Elba as Heimdall who appears in a vision. Mark Ruffalo returns as Bruce Banner aka Hulk with Lou Ferrigno again providing Hulk's roar. Scarlett Johansson returns as Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow whose Red Room past is briefly glimpsed in a vision that features one of her trainers, Madame B, played by Julie Delpy. Jeremy Renner returns as Clint Barton aka Hawkeye whose secret domestic life is revealed in the form of two kids and a pregnant wife, Laura Barton, played by Linda Cardellini. Representing the former SHIELD, Samuel L. Jackson returns as Col. Nick Fury with Cobie Smulders as former Agent and current Stark Industries employee Maria Hill as well as Aaron Himelstein as Specialist Cameron Klein who refused to launch the helicarriers at gunpoint in "Winter Soldier". Representing Hydra, Thomas Kretschmann reprises his "Winter Soldier" end-credit turn as Baron Wolfgang von Strucker as does Henry Goodman as Dr. List who portrayed his character between films on "Agents of SHIELD". Making their proper debut after their "Winter Soldier" end-credit appearance are Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Pietro Maximoff aka Quicksilver and Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch, the Sokovian fraternal twins and Hydra volunteers who survived being experimented on by the Chitauri Scepter. James Spader's silky voice and sardonic wit bring Ultron to vivid life as a menacing A.I. bent on exterminating everything organic to fulfill his programming of ensuring peace. As a disembodied intelligence, a collective drone legion or in his vibranium chassis, he is the most formidable opponent the Avengers have yet faced. Andy Serkis does a terrific turn as the unsavory Ulysses Klaue, a South African mercenary who loses an arm to Ultron and who introduces the concept of Wakanda. Claudia Kim plays Dr. Helen Cho whose research into synthetic skin proves instrumental in the development of Vision. Ingvild Deila, who was the physical template for the CGI Princess Leia in "Rogue One", has a bit part as a technician at the internet's World Hub in Oslo. Lastly, Josh Brolin returns as Thanos for the character's third appearance in the saga.
TRIVIA:
1. As 20th-Century Fox studios owned the film rights to anything mutant-related in the Marvel Universe, Wanda and Pietro could not be identified as such although they are mutants in the comics. Instead, they were designated as 'enhanced' in the film. The characters were able to be incorporated into the MCU because they are Avengers in the comics which meant that both Disney and Fox had access to them.
2. Since Ultron is nine feet tall, James Spader wore a harness with two stalks that extended three feet above his head upon which two red balls were mounted to represent Ultron's eyes! Spader's scene partners had to direct their gaze at the red balls when acting opposite him.
3. While the JARVIS A.I. is actually an acronym that means "Just A Rather Very Intelligent System", the FRIDAY A.I. is both a reference to the '40's slang 'girl Friday' otherwise known as a secretary who provides invaluable support to her boss as well as the 1940 film "His Girl Friday" known for its snappy banter which is shared by Stark and his new operating system.
4. A motion capture performance artist pioneer known for Gollum, King Kong, Caesar and Snoke, Andy Serkis did double-duty as Ulysses Klaue and as technical consultant on ILM's new motion capture system called "Muse" which provided more expressive rendering for the Hulk and Ultron.
EASTER EGGS:
1. In the comics, Dr. Helen Cho is the mother of Amadeus Cho, the seventh smartest person on the planet and a close friend to Hulk and Hercules!
2. When Ultron first meets the twins in the church, he is draped in a crimson cloth referencing his first appearance in the comics when he hid his robotic face with a red hood and went by the moniker of The Crimson Cowl!
3. The band playing during Cap's hallucination are identified as 'The Roy Thomas Players'. Roy Thomas was Marvel's editor-in-chief during the 1970s!
4. Four Infinity Stones have been seen in the saga so far but "Age of Ultron" reveals that the Tesseract and the Chitauri Scepter gem are containment units for their Stones much like the Orb in "Guardians of the Galaxy" while the Aether can crystallize into a concentrated ingot!
CAMEO:
1. Stan Lee appears as a World War II veteran at the Avengers Tower party who unwisely imbibes Thor's potent Asgardian ale leaving him unable to walk and mumbling his catch-phrase 'Excelsior'!
END-CREDIT SCENE:
1. Thanos reaches into an aperture and removes an Infinity Gauntlet which he puts on and balls into a fist resolving to handle matters personally.
The next chronological stop in the MCU are Episodes 20-22 of Season 2 of "Agents of SHIELD" which concludes the second season of the show.