Movie Review: Avengers Endgame (2019)

Avengers Endgame is a touching and delightful conclusion to the epic battle that began back when the group of superheroes first assembled to defend New York. And while the roster has grown since then, this movie focuses on the originals: Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and the Hulk. The action is intense, the one-liners hilarious, and the music persistent--I still have the Avengers theme stuck in my head, and I am okay with that.

In this adventure, our heroes try to undo the results of Thanos' actions from Avengers Infinity War. Since this review is spoiler-free, all I can say is that a lot of what follows is unpredictable, incredible, and sometimes hysterically funny. And while I was very nervous coming into this movie because I've become very attached to some of the characters and I don't want to lose any of them, I came out happy and satisfied. The journeys they all take--together and separately--lead to difficulties and agony, but also to victory, absolution, and redemption.

Perhaps most of all, this film is about second chances, about trusting and opening yourself to the risk of another failure. Cliché though it is, it's not about how often you fall, it's about how often you get back up. And the Avengers fell hard in the last movie. Avengers Endgame is the story of them getting back up, dusting themselves off, and hitting back. As Fragrant Hubby would say, And it is glorious.

Of course, heroes are only as good as their archnemeses (help? is this the plural of archnemesis?), and this movie delivers. To say more would be to spoil (she said, coyly), but let it be known that the Big Bad in the movie sure gives everyone a run for their money.

One last, slightly spoiler-ish point: there's a shot late in the movie that, to me, looked like Marvel excitedly saying, "Look! Look! We're woke! We listened!" Was it pandering? Absolutely. Did I love it? HELL YEAH. Am I gonna find a gif of it and save it on my phone to look at when I feel down? HEAVEN YEAH. Are both Junior and Juniorette going to be watching it with me? LIMBO YEAH.

Okay, I ran out of metaphorical constructs. Forgive me, we watched A Game of Thrones' The Battle of Winterfell episode right after watching this movie so my brain is a little confused about which end-of-the-world is which.

Overall, Avengers Endgame made over a billion dollars on opening weekend, so what are you waiting for? Get thee to a cinema and become part of the movie event of the year, nay, the decade!

In closing, I leave first-time goers some excellent advice I received from a friend: hold off on drinking too much beforehand, because this is a three-hour movie and you don't want to miss a second of it! I plan to watch it again, frankly because I missed a bunch of dialogue and also because it's really good and also Hubby and I keep arguing about which plot holes are in fact plot holes and which aren't.

TL;DR: GLORIOUS. EPIC. WATCH IT ASAP.

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