Avengers: Age of Ultron got "Star Trek V'd"

[Mutara Nebula 1967]

Star Trek IV was a wildly sucessful movie filled with much humor that was ORGANIC to the story...as was 2012's The Avengers.
Following Voyage home's sucess clearly the decision was made that if "Star Trek IV" was funny and made tons of money let's up the ante with the humor and make a ton of more of money with Trek V.

Cue the sounds of a Pac-Man being eaten as all the lame humor forced on the characters did not result in a fortune. Professional helmsmen and navigators being lost in a forest and trying to cover it up with a fake storm, row, row row your boat, go climb a mountain T-Shirts, engineer's bonking their heads, a mature woman going all sex kitten on a man who has been a friend for year...none of that helped.

Flash forward to present day and the suits at Marvel load AGE OF ULTRON chock o block full of more alleged humor by forcing quips that are a natural part of Tony Stark's character into EVERYONE's mouth...even the supposed "terrifying" villain. Turning everyone into a quip machine was just over the top ridiculous. Heck even a character as he is dying gets his last words to be a quip.

ULTRON didn't flop like V...but if you read a lot of the reviews it was critically tarnished and a lot of reviewers called out the force fed humor as one of the films weaknesses.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Why did this need it's own thread?

 

[Karzak]

I thought the humor in Age of Ultron was on of its strongest elements, and certainly if not to everyone's liking, at the very least nowhere near as big an issue as the otherwise nonsensical script.

 

[Ethros]

Why did this need it's own thread?

You took the words right out of my mouth.



And yes, Ultron didn't "flop" like ST V... it's currently the sixth highest grossing movie of all time. So that's just one way the analogy really doesn't work at all. And there are many others.

 

[Jedi_Master]

Just like Star Trek V, the OP would have been better if it was a lot shorter.

I didn't like Avengers: Age of Ultron

 

[Gaith]

Question: What does God need with a quinjet?!

 

[jbohn]

I agree about the humor. When I saw it, most of the "funny" dialog did not even get a chuckle from the audience.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

I agree about the humor. When I saw it, most of the "funny" dialog did not even get a chuckle from the audience.

You should've seen it with the audience in my theater. Lots of laughs.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Why did this need it's own thread?

You took the words right out of my mouth.



And yes, Ultron didn't "flop" like ST V... it's currently the sixth highest grossing movie of all time. So that's just one way the analogy really doesn't work at all. And there are many others.

Ninja'd by these two.

 

[Cyke101]

Coincidentally enough, the primary actress of both movies had their own dance scenes.

So ... sure, it got Star Trek V'd, I guess.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

When I first read the title of this thread, I thought the second Avengers film had somehow contracted a Star Trek venereal disease.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I thought the Hulk's fan dance scene to distract the Hydra guards was a bit much, myself.

 

[The Old Mixer]

You get points for sickness.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

I think it's more of a case of getting Iron Man 2'd-too many elements hinting towards the next set of films instead of being more self-contained. This has sort of been a problem with a few other Marvel films as well, I know it's supposed to be a shared cinematic universe but things are getting a bit out of hand lately sometimes.

The Vibranium/Klaw hinting toward Black Panther, The gems and Infinity War, the tangent with Thor's dream dealing with Thor: Ragnarok, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver possibly hinting towards the Inhumans....Spider-Man and Captain Marvel were also going to have appearences in the film at some point in development but were left out, and Iron Man leaving the Avengers and Captain America in charge is probably setting up, in some part, Civil War.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I thought the Hulk's fan dance scene to distract the Hydra guards was a bit much, myself.

Hulk had better be wearing pants...

 

[BeatleJWOL]

HULK SMASH MODESTY POLICE
WHY RESTRICT HULK FREEDOM
HULK LIKE FEEL OF WIND IN HULK SAILS

 

[JD]

I didn't really have any problems wth the humor in AoU. But then again, I seemed to have it enjoyed more overall than a lot of people, so that's not a big surprise.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

HULK SMASH MODESTY POLICE
WHY RESTRICT HULK FREEDOM
HULK LIKE FEEL OF WIND IN HULK SAILS

No one want see Hulk's junk.

 

[BeatleJWOL]

Just saying, any argument is funnier when you write it as HULK.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Hulk miss good old days of Heroes Reborn, when Hulk swung wild and free...!