Avengers 4: End Game Trailer Review

Avengers 4: End Game Trailer Review

 

The first trailer for Avengers 4 has been released and although on first looks there isn’t much to go on, I think there’s more than meets the eye.

 

The trailer opens with Iron Man, Tony Stark, trapped out in space, making a recording or attempting to send a message to Pepper Potts. On first hearing what’s Stark is saying, it sounds like he is giving up. He has run out of food and he has less than one day before the Oxygen runs out. However one line Stark says is “Just for the record being adrift in space with zero promise of rescue is more fun than it sounds”, although it seems as though he is accepting his fate, this wording may be a clue to how he is going to be saved, by the use of the word “Rescue”. In the comics Pepper turns into a superhero with a full on outfit and is called Rescue and it is her job to rescue Stark. It would be easily believable for Pepper to have some sort of tracker on Stark so she can locate him and fly him back to earth so he can team up with Black Widow, Thor and Captain America who we next see in the trailer.

Black Widow and Captain America, after scenes of them looking like they have accepted the fate of Thanos’s snap, seem to start fighting back and have come up with a plan. What that plan is, we don’t know, but the trailer suggests that it could involve Ant Man, who at the end of the most recent Ant Man film was left trapped in the Quantum Realm.

 

There are two possibilities for how Ant Man could show up in this film. Either Ant Man has escaped from the Quantum Realm and has taken the van with the Quantum Tunnel Device in it to Avengers Head Quarters and from there Ant-Man, Captain America and Black Widow are going to find a way to undo the snap and bring down Thanos. Or Ant Man had to use time travel, via a time portal to escape from the Quantum Realm and tried to track down the Avengers in the past and this holographic screen message is only being seen now. Proof for this version is that in the top left hand corner of the screen it says the word “Archive” and just before that it looks as though there may be a date.

Moving onto another superhero that wasn’t there in Infinity War is Hawkeye, who in the trailer has a brand new outfit on, he has just injured or killed a man we don’t yet know the identity of and we know that Black Widow is behind him, looking angry but also confused. It is believed that Hawkeye has transformed into Ronan, Hawkeye’s character from the comic book he transforms into after his entire family is murdered. Sadly at the point of time when Ronan first appears on screen, Captain America has an overlay which says “We lost family” practically confirming the fact that Hawkeye lost his family and has transformed into Ronan.

We get a glimpse of Thanos, walking through a field, running his hands gently and carelessly across the plants. He has hung up his armour, showing he doesn’t need it anymore but it looks like he is still wearing the gauntlet, it may be possible that after the damage he did from the snap, it is now fused to his skin.

 

The title of the film, which was accidently released months ago has been confirmed as “End Game”. This phrase has shown up twice in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Firstly in Avengers Age of Ultron, told by Tony Stark, then more recently in Avengers Infinity War, spoken by Doctor Strange. It’s also important to note that when the title screen appears, the A behind the word Avengers is made up of the dust that some of the superheroes transformed into after suffering the fate of the snap. It’s like this film is going to be about how all of the gone characters will return, because that is ultimately what we want. We all know there is another Spiderman moving coming out, a possible Guardians of the Galaxy 3 film, how can that be if they don’t come back.

 

That covers all the main details from the trailer. Overall, I am excited for this film, however, I know that Marvel has a habit of showing one thing in the trailer and then doing something different in the film. Although it’s fun to break down trailers, I don’t think we’re going to really know until we watch the film, which is how it should be.

 

If, like me, you’re going to find it hard to wait until April 2019 for End Game to be released, don’t forget we have Captain Marvel coming out in March, which will probably give us a better idea as to what will happen in End Game.

 

 

The Lion King Trailer Review

The Lion King Trailer Review

 

Coming out next year, on July 19th, in the UK and the US is the photo realistic, CGI Disney film, The Lion King. The first sneak peak trailer was recently released for this film and I have few things I’d like to say about it!

 

The sun rises over the African plains, the gazelles look up, elephants walk across an expansive land with a gigantic ice topped mountain in the background and birds fly across a large body of water. These are the opening scenes we see in the trailer and they look as though they have been extracted from the original films trailer, just with photo realistic CGI rather than cartoon drawings.

 

Then we hear Mufasa, voiced by James Earl Jones, the voice of the original Mufasa brought back because he was so iconic, voicing the line “Everything the light touches, is our kingdom”. This is a line spoken in the original film, so if you didn’t pick up on the fact that the trailer so far, which is only about 21 seconds in by this point, has been copied from the original trailer, hopefully you will from this line.

 

Then we’ve got some shots of the animals all lined up, making lots of noise and seeming excited, expectant even, like they’re waiting for the arrival of Simba.

The next shot we get is of Simba, or more accurately, his front right paw as it steps into the much larger footprint of Mufasa’s, foreshadowing how Simba must live up to his father, the King. As we see this very symbolic moment, which has been copied from the original film, we again hear Mufasa speak, this time saying “But a King’s time as ruler rises and falls like the sun”. This also foreshadows how Mufasa’s time will soon be coming to an end. Mufasa continues to speak, saying “One day, the sun will set on my time here, and will rise with you as the new King.” While we hear this, the most important line of dialogue in the trailer, we see a clip of the scene that will bring ruin to the king, and will evoke very sad memories in all the people who ever saw the original film and loved it. The herd of Buffalo, stampeding.

When all hope is lost, what does Disney do? It plays the iconic, possibly the most iconic piece of film music, The Circle of Life and reveals the first glimpse of Pride Rock, followed very quickly by Rafiki and young, possibly hours old Simba who turns his head towards the light. Rafiki then breaks apart the roots to release the red powdery substance that he pushes across Simba’s forehead, before lifting him up high into the sky to be seen by all the cheering animals waiting below.

 

Next the title card of “THE LION KING” followed by the names of the actors who will be lending their voices to the film. Donald Glover will voice Simba, Seth Rogan will voice Pumbaa, Chiwetel Ejiofor will voice Scar, Billy Eichner will voice Timon, John Oliver will voice Zazu, Keegan-Michael Key will voice Kamari, Beyonce Knowles-Carter will voice Nala and James Earl Jones will voice Mufasa.

 

Names of those not mentioned in the trailer are John Kani who will voice Rafiki, Alfre Woodard who will voice Sarabi, JD McCrary who will voice young Simba. Shahadi Wright Joseph will voice Young Nala, Florence Kasumba who will voice Shenzi and Eric Andre who will voice Azizi.

The final scene in the trailer is of a dark and cloudy sky, a lion, I’m guessing Simba, roaring powerfully at the sky and Mufasa saying “Remember”.

 

The trailer was epic, it did what it was meant to do, and that is to intrigue the audience who don’t already know the story of The Lion King. For those who do know the story, it means watching the trailer you have the feelings of nostalgia and you can breathe a sigh of relief that they haven’t tainted your beloved film by getting rid of your favourite characters or bringing in new ones.

 

The film will be directed by Jon Favreau, the same person who directed the photo realistic CGI/live action The Jungle Book, along with Iron Man and many other films.

The score for the film is by Hans Zimmer with songs by Tim Rice and Elton John. All three worked on the music of the original film so we know we’re in good hands.

 

Overall, I am excited to go and see this film but I hope that in some way they made it different from the original. The original is a good film, that has been proved and I don’t want a CGI photo realistic copy. I want something newer, refreshing and relevant to today. Asking for something specific, I would be very happy to see a back story for Scar, like what came first, the scar or the name? What makes him hate Mufasa so much? I think there’s a lot they could do to make this a better film than the first, we will just have to wait until July 19th 2019!