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Avengers

A few days ago, we watched Marvel Studios latest animated DVD released “Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow” from the internet via streaming. Of course, we drool and got crazy with all the fantastic work they did with the animated film mostly a fusion of 2D and 3D format. Marvel Studios hopes to revive the Avengers franchise series from the comicbooks which originated the powerhouse team-up of Marvel’s mightiest heroes such as Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Iron, Hawkeye, Wasp, Ant-man, Black Panther and a lot more. Let’s call this Marvel team as the counterpart of DC comic’s Justice League.

Surprisingly, it was subtitled “Heroes of Tomorrow” because it partly tells the story of those superheroes I’ve mentioned above (well not entirely) since it’s their kid’s story. Set in a gloomy future where the original Avengers died many years ago, and in that timeline their children lived to take their turn to be heroes. Take this: Captain America’s son is called James who possess the same supersoldier abilities and holographic star-spangled shield, Thor has a daughter who possess a mystical sword (not a hammer), Black Panther has a son that unleashes bolts of lightning (probably the mom is Storm since they were married in the comicbooks),Hawkeye has a son with the same name and abilities. Plus, there’s a kid named Pym which he got his technological wit from parents Wasp and Giant-Man. These teenagers are all children of the deceased Avengers… and their parent’s killer is no other than Ultron, the tough humanoid robot with a thousand lives created by Tony Stark. Anyway, speaking of Tony Stark a.k.a. Iron- Man, well he’s too old in the story since he raised the Avenger kids after their parents were killed by Ultron who invaded America with his robot minions.

When the kids lose control and screwed up everything in their secret base, their secret location was exposed to Ultron. Ultron made a fatal attack to their base and to the Iron Man. Iron Man asked his Avenger friend Vision to bring the kids to another secret place but the kids screwed up again. Now, they have to stand up together to save their mentor Iron Man from the hands of Ultron in his citadel, a former United-States-turned-Ultron-City. There they need to join forces with the teenage Hawkeye and find the old Bruce Banner a.k.a. Hulk to bring Ultron down to his knees. Finally in the final confrontation, the unstoppable attack of Hulk and the kid’s combined forces, they finally defeated Ultron for good.

Well, they are indeed the next generation of Earth’s mightiest heroes, they avenged their parents death and brought justice to the maniacal robot’s tyranny. But the best thing of all, they know how to use their superpowers and stop screwing around, hehe.

Anyway, Marvel Studios is good in bringing to life some of its greatest characters with their breakthrough animation. The animation is great, the plot and the story rocks. Hope you can get a copy and watch the film if you have the chance.

By the way, here’s the synopsis of the story I got from www.marvel.com

Whenever the forces of evil threatened mankind, Earth's mightiest heroes the Avengers were there to stop them - until they made the ultimate sacrifice in their final fight with the indestructible robot, Ultron. But all was not lost for Tony Stark (Iron Man) kept the children of the Avengers safe and raised them to become the teenage heroes of tomorrow. Now James (Son of Captain America and Black Widow), Torunn (Daughter of Thor), Azari (Son of the Black Panther), and Pym (Son of Wasp and Giant Man) must finish the fight their parents started. Soon the arrow-slinging son of Hawkeye will join their ranks but it will take more than five teens to destroy the machine that defeated their parents. If these young heroes have any hope of winning they must find the missing Hulk and come together as...the Next Avengers!