Instead of pushing all of the superheroes’ stories forward through this shared point, the movie adopts a short-term and hackneyed artificial-intelligence-gone-wrong dilemma, offering little in the way of character development. The famous infinity stones, whose purpose is not yet quite clear, are temptingly dangled as a plot thread in the movie, but they do not play a central role in its progression. This is especially disconcerting if viewers have not seen all of the many Marvel movies needed to fill in the backstory, and even if they have, it is hard to keep track of the terminology and connected plot points that weave in and out of each other. One of the obvious drawbacks of having an Avengers sequel is that after the first combined movie, the individual superhero franchises continued to be produced separately, giving the sequel a disjointed feeling. While the antagonist Ultron’s eloquent madman voice nearly rivals contemporaries like Batman’s Bane, the overarching plot falls flat. Ultron into the Internet, whose villainous plans to “save” the world by wiping out its entire human population once again force the Avengers into action.įollowing the first installation of “The Avengers,” which became the third highest grossing film of all time, the sequel has been preempted with intense anticipation. Tony Stark channels the staff’s power to create artificial intelligence for his robotic peacekeeping program, but the results are far from successful. Once it is in their possession, things quickly go awry. The Avengers are on a mission to regain Loki’s scepter (from the Thor movies), whose power source has unknown potential. The film picks up in medias res, following the team as they break into a Hydra (from the Captain America movies) facility. “The Avengers: Age of Ultron” is a product of this environment, and while it may not bring any revelatory changes to the genre, it touches upon a particular infatuation that only Marvel seems able to satisfy. With just two or three companies dominating the market, the competition to produce the most successful superhero franchise has been overwhelming.

In the past several years, the cinematic world has been overrun by movie after movie of superhero-villain standoffs and intricate computer-generated imagery.

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