The Ultimate Avengers 1 & 2 is out on Blu-ray for the first time. Both films in one package featuring: Iron Man Captain America The Incredible Hulk Thor and many more! Titles Comprise: Ultimate Avengers 1: A world in crisis. Age-old enemies on the verge of attack. A mighty team is recruited and Earth's ultimate hero is sought to lead them - Captain America. Unfortunately he's been frozen in ice for over sixty years. Inspired by Marvel's best-selling books The Ultimates this is the extraordinary story of six very independent heroes who like it or not must fight as... one to save the world. Little did they know that their biggest threat would emerge from within their very own ranks - The Incredible Hulk! Ultimate Avengers 2: To save humanity the Earth's mightiest heroes must reunite for a rematch of heroic proportions. Mysterious Wakanda. It lies in the darkest heart of Africa unknown to most of the world. An isolated land hidden behind closed borders fiercely protected by its young king - the BLACK PANTHER. A king who holds the fate of the entire earth in his hands. Because brutal alien invaders are coming soon to fill every sky and control every land seeking what is buried beneath ancient Wakanda. That leaves the Black Panther with a single option one that goes against the sacred decrees of his people - to ask for help from outsiders. And so he turns to The Avengers - Captain America. Iron Man. Thor. Giant Man. Wasp. And the Incredible Hulk. These mightiest of heroes have battled the aliens before and barely survived. They thought it was over. They were wrong. [show more]
Based on Marvel's best-selling comic book series, The Ultimates, co-created by Mark Millar (Kick-Ass) and Bryan Hitch (JLA), these two films comprise a fantastic Blu-ray boxset that defines everything good about animated feature-length films - something I feel we don't get to see often enough.
The first film, The Ultimate Avengers, features an absolutely stellar cast of characters from the Marvel Universe - many of whom we have since become familiar with in recent years from their live-action films - including Captain America as the main character, as well as Iron Man, Black Widow, Thor, The Hulk (and Bruce Banner), Nick Fury, and two characters not seen in the live-action films, the brilliant Wasp and Giant-Man.
Without wanting to give anything away - since The Ultimates served as partial inspiration for the recently-released The Avengers / Avengers Assemble live-action film - I will say that The Ultimate Avengers is a tour-de-force animated action film with a thrill-a-minute pace that is rarely seen in direct-to-DVD/Blu-ray features. The superhero line-up lends itself fantastically to an unbelievably creative imagination from the artists who worked on the film, which sees Captain America joining forces with all his fellow superheroes surrounding him as part of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Curt Geda, Steven E. Gordon, and Bob Richardson's joint direction of the project is so impressive as to leave you wanting even more - and that is precisely what we get with The Ultimate Avengers 2. A second dose of fantastic superheroics that lives up to the original film.
The sequel, The Ultimate Avengers 2 (released in 2006), introduces a handful of new characters - including Thor's father, Odin - and is every bit the animated action film that we fell in love with in The Ultimate Avengers 1. The animation brings the characters to life even further than Millar and Hitch's original comic series, and fans of the source material can rest assured in the knowledge that new co-directors, Will Meugniot and Richard Sebast, have remained very faithful to The Ultimates.
Award-winning composer Guy Michelmore (the BBC's Talking with Animals) wrote a powerful score for both the first and second films, which adds to the action in the best way possible, as well as enhancing the more sombre and heart-warming moments that punctuate each of the two features. Michelmore is a true artist, with a unique blend that complements The Ultimate Avengers 1 and 2 perfectly.
The two films have been released previously on DVD, but if you have the means to watch this updated edition on Blu-ray, I would naturally recommend you use your television to its full capacity with these two films. The animation is so eye-openingly, jaw-droppingly crisp that it jumps off the screen with every explosion and every punch in a way that can only be fully appreciated with the Blu-ray technology. These two films show you the Marvel superheroes as you've never seen them before, and if you're a fan of any of Marvel's work - whether it's their original comics, their animated films, or their live-action movies - this is a must-watch necessity that is absolutely required viewing. And for that reason, the two films in turn deserve every one of the five stars I've given them in this review. Enjoy them both; I know you will.
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Two animated movies based on the Marvel comics. In 'Ultimate Avengers - The Movie' (2006), when a nuclear missile was fired at Washington in 1945, Captain America saved the world by causing it to detonate it in the upper atmosphere but then he fell miles into the icy depths of the North Atlantic, where he froze in ice for over 60 years. But now, with the world on the brink of annihilation, as sinister forces attempted to seize control of the world, Captain America must rise again as the last hope of survival, and lead a strong-willed team of today's superheroes: Iron Man, the billionaire bachelor used to doing things his own way; The Hulk, the destructive force Bruce Banner hopes to turn into a useful member of the team; Thor, a hero who has responsibilities to both the world of man and the world of Gods; and Wasp, a petite powerhouse who sees the team as a fresh start for her and her husband, otherwise known as Giant Man, 60 feet tall with an equally large chip on his shoulder. Individually, they are super heroes, together, they are the Ultimate Avengers. In 'Ultimate Avengers 2: Rise of the Panther' (2006), back to defend the planet against the invasion of aliens, the formidable team of superheroes reunites for another action-packed adventure. The powerful team brings together some of Marvel's cornerstone characters: Captain America, Iron Man, Giant-Man, Thor, Wasp, Black Widow, the Incredible Hulk, Bruce Banner and General Nick Fury.
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