I never thought I'd see the day...
When Marvel apparently decided to animate even the Ultimate universe on videocassette! Which is exactly why it isn't good news, I'm afraid. From the New York Times:
Normally, I'd welcome the idea of animation for adults. I mean, hey, who doesn't? But if it's a takeoff on a series that featured yet another needless regurgitation of a done-to-death storyline, that's what kills it.
Some advice for Marvel: back to drawing board. Thank you.
Update: and while I'm on the subject of that awful beginning story in the Ultimates (first volume), I must say, these two reviews here of issue #6 and issue #7 from Silver Bullet Comics are some of the most angeringly sugarladen slop I've ever seen. The reviewer is not being discerning, and the review of 6 doesn't give a clear explanation of what took place in it either (the review of 7 does give an indication of what took place, but is still a fiasco due to the fluff-coating he gave it). With that kind of appoach, no wonder I find mainstream websites like this one so unreliable.
Those with certain tastes in cinema have long complained that films look too much like comic books. To other moviegoers, of course, they will never look enough like comic books, and it is that audience that Marvel Studios and Lions Gate Home Entertainment are seeking with "Ultimate Avengers: The Movie."No, it won't. Not if the series this seems to take off from involved an overwrought regurgitation of the storyline from 1981 when Hank Pym smacked Janet Van Dyne, that's for sure.
The animated feature, to be released direct to DVD tomorrow and priced at $19.98, will not have the mass-market appeal of Marvel movies such as "Spider-Man." But it also did not have nearly as big a budget.
Normally, I'd welcome the idea of animation for adults. I mean, hey, who doesn't? But if it's a takeoff on a series that featured yet another needless regurgitation of a done-to-death storyline, that's what kills it.
Some advice for Marvel: back to drawing board. Thank you.
Update: and while I'm on the subject of that awful beginning story in the Ultimates (first volume), I must say, these two reviews here of issue #6 and issue #7 from Silver Bullet Comics are some of the most angeringly sugarladen slop I've ever seen. The reviewer is not being discerning, and the review of 6 doesn't give a clear explanation of what took place in it either (the review of 7 does give an indication of what took place, but is still a fiasco due to the fluff-coating he gave it). With that kind of appoach, no wonder I find mainstream websites like this one so unreliable.
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