Ultimate Avengers....

[Immortal1982]

Has anyone seen the trailer(s) for it. It looks kinda good. A lot of the same crew who had previously worked on X-men Evolution and Gargoyles are involved.

Captain America, GIant Man, Wasp, Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Fury and The Hulk? I'm pretty sold on it when it hits DVD next month.

~SkY~

[Kaeos]

I completely missed this thread. Wondered why no one responded to it.

I'm planning on grabbing as a B-day present for my son.

I agree, it does look pretty good, I have to say I was a little surprised at how old school the animation looks. I seriously thought this must have been drawn about the same time as the old GI Joe movie and just never released.

[omicron]

I am thinking about it. I haven't followed Marvel comics in about 15 years, so I am totally unfamiliar with the Ultimates.

I read the review on Cinescape and I am underwhelmed by it. I would expect something better than the GI Joe and Spiderman animations of the 90s.

If I can find it cheap somewheres, I might get it.

Omi

[Kaeos]

Short clip from the movie.

Captain America (http://lionsgate.arcostream.net/lionsgate/ult_avengers/ult_avengers_cpt_america_300.wmv) goes Apeshit! (Realplayer required)

[omicron]

Saw it this weekend on Cartoon Network. It wasn't bad, the animation was pretty generic. Still, it was decent. I don't know anything about the Ultimate universe, so it was pretty new to me.

Omi

[DaForce]

Yeah, I wasn't at all impressed with the animation. In fact, there were a few spots where I actually winced since the animation was so painfully bad. The story was the watered down version of the comic book, so it wasn't that great. What I'm hoping for in the sequel is that they add the elements that made the comic so good, AND that they hire some animators that know how to animate simple things like someone walking towards the camera and a simple head turn that doesn't have the mouth and eyes floating off on a different plane.

[Kaeos]

I gotta admit, I liked the story and the characters better than I thought I would.

Yeah the animaton was a bit hokey, but it made me feel like I was 10 again watching the old GI Joe and Transformers theater flicks

[KingVoyeur]

I've never read any of the comics, but the movie was ok I guess. Watching it on tv with commercial breaks kinda kills the pacing, so I probably didn't get as much out of it as I could have. I felt like they spent way too much time with CA's backstory and the gathering of the team instead of more time with them trying to work together. Maybe I've been biased with the live-action Hulk show, but I wasn't really happy with Dr. Banner being a complete nut. I was worried I wasn't even going to see Hulk (or Thor for that matter) in action because the clock was winding down on the film and they hadn't shown up yet!

All-in-all it was ok, it really took me back to the 80's cartoons I loved (but maybe that's not so great what with the quality of animation we know can be produced). As with the FF4 live-action movie, I felt like it was more the first half of a movie than a full feature (regardless of the 72-min run time). What with the speed we're able to produce things and get them out on DVD, maybe studios should look into producing short quality prologues on DVD before a movie is released to get audiences caught up with characters and backgrounds, then doing a big-budget theatrical release (and I'm talking live-action prologues with all the film's actors, not those animated versions that preceded Riddick and Van Helsing). That way they wouldn't have to try and cram everything for everyone into a 100-min movie. They could develop characters and plots better without having to resort to cop-out plot devices and deus ex machinas. They could include just enough in the wide-release film to catch up people who only saw the theatrical version, and they'd make hella money off of fan boys who'd want to see everything (again, not talking about crappy little animated shorts that are underproduced, but theatrical quality 30-45 min shorts to help flesh out everything). I know they're kind of already doing this, but I think if they put a little more effort behind it it could really pay off.

(Was that rantish or just long-winded? Didn't really mean to lol)