★★☆☆☆

Wait for Cable. Avengers Endgame is really that bad.

There are two themes which signal the writers are out of gas when it comes to an existing franchise. The first is they accuse one of the major leads of murder and make it a “who done it?” The second is they fish out the time manipulation/travel trope.

It’s well known that some of the actors were waving good bye to the franchise after this installment. It’s also well known that the studio is trying to push more female (and lower paid leads) onto the buying public. According to this source Robert Downey Jr. was paid $75 million for Endgame but Scarlett Johansson was only paid $20 million. (Gal Gadot was only paid $300,000 for Wonder Woman.)

Sliders coverWell they didn’t use the murder trial trope but they did drag out the old time travel trope. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Scyfy guy. I love a good time travel series or movie. Get yourself a big bag of White Castle and binge watch Sliders. I kind of question the dates IMDB has. I seem to remember being much younger when this show was on. Well, I was, but I was already old by 2000.

The problem with an established franchise dredging up the time travel theme is it ends up being a bad “greatest hits” album. Tons of archival footage to cut costs for the swan song. Make no mistake, this is the swan song. I’ve yet to meet anyone who will spend money watching another Avengers movie after getting taken by the last two. Well, really just one movie which was so long they split it into two.

New Albums by Dead Artists

For those of you too young to understand what I’m talking about it is like all of those “new” albums released by a studio long after the artists death. Studios are just scrounging through the experimental tapes and slapping something together to squeeze a few more bucks out of the act now that they might be able to weasel out of paying royalties.

There was some good tear jerk acting in here which is why I give the move two stars. The humor mostly sucked. The funniest line in the entire show was a zinger by Thor’s mom telling him to “eat a salad.” Yeah, it’s that bad. Avengers Endgame took stupid down to the single cell level and it just didn’t work.

The special effects were great for the battle scene, but that really isn’t script writing, just video game players spinning up things they think look cool.

We can only hope this is the last Avengers movie to ever get made.

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