So! As every single site on the internet has seen fit to inform me, the new trailer for Marvel's Avengers is out today!
As close as I can tell, it features Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Hulk, some guy with a bow, the chick in black leather from Iron Man 2: Metallic Boogaloo, and Samuel L. Jackson teaming up to fight… something, possibly Loki (I haven't actually seen Thor, but that's the impression I get).
The trailer shows that Marvel seems aware of what people particularly liked about each of its lead-in movies. The dialogue is about 70% Iron Man bantering, and the trailer also features Captain America looking adorably sincere and Thor looking like a shampoo model, plus rather a lot of explosions. So it plays to the franchise's established strengths, and, assuming the movie itself is in the same tone as the trailer, it looks like it'll be a blockbusting good time.
That said, the major tag line ("If we can't protect the earth, you can be damn sure we'll avenge it,") doesn't land. I know it's trying to establish why, exactly, the movie (and presumably the superhero team within) is called The Avengers, but all I can think is, Tony, if you have failed to protect the earth, where will you be standing when you take these avenging actions, outer space?
Then again, he's Tony Stark. He probably can avenge things from outer space.
Judgment: exciting.
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