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The Next Avengers is surprisingly… not bad.  The premise sounded awful to me: the heroes that we all know & love are killed off and eventually their offspring pop up to avenge them.  The fact that the Avengers are slaughtered in the film’s opening minute made me think it would be too much for my son.  The fact that the stars of the film are pre-teens made me think it would be too kid-ish for me.

I got the movie from Netflix to check it out and it really was pretty good.  Not as good as the first Ultimate Avengers DVD, but better than all the crap that followed it.  There were so many little drop-ins for comics fans that it was like a 90 minute Easter egg hunt.  The carnage of the opening minutes was done in a low-key story book fashion that took the edge off enough for younger viewers. 

This film wasn’t great, but it was good enough to wash the bitter taste of the Iron Man animated film from my mouth and to get me excited for the next two installments in the Marvel Animated line: Hulk vs. Wolverine and Hulk vs. Thor.

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