The teaser trailer for the upcoming Marvel superhero film “Avengers 4” has just been released. The
trailer revealed that the film’s title is “Avengers: Endgame”. This is a highly anticipated film for 2019
as it continues the story from “Avengers: Infinity War” that was released in April this year. I enjoyed
“Avengers: Infinity War” which I thought was a good, entertaining film that balanced well all the
different groups of characters together. I warn readers that there will be spoilers for “Avengers: Infinity War” here. In this post, I’ll be giving my thoughts on the trailer and the film. First, I’m embedding the trailer below that you can watch.
I like it how the trailer opens with Tony Stark/Iron Man in the Benatar spaceship who is sending a
message to his girlfriend and fiance Pepper Potts. I like the scenes of Tony in space aboard the
spaceship. These scenes seem reminiscent of the film “The Martian” which I like. The trailer also
shows a bit of the place where Thanos was at the end of Infinity War with Thanos’s hand going over
some alien plants. We see footage at the Avengers facility featuring conversations between Steve
Rogers/Captain America and Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow. There is an image that almost
certainly tells us that Shuri, the sister of T’Challa/Black Panther was killed as a result of the
life in the universe). We also see Nebula aboard the spaceship and she puts her hand on someone
who is probably Tony. I’d imagine that they are together in the spaceship and the reason we didn’t see her at the start is either because Tony is in his quarters or she let him be by himself for his personal message to Pepper.
There is a moment where Natasha and Clint Barton/Hawkeye are in Japan, with presumably Natasha going to Japan to find him. I’m pleased that part of this film is set in Japan, as I like it when Hollywood films have scenes in Eastern countries. Steve and Natasha talk about a plan of theirs, and we still don’t know what their plan is. I suspect and hope that it is the rumoured time travel. The trailer ends with Scott Lang/Ant-Man requesting entry into the Avengers facility suggesting that he may be the key to defeating Thanos.
This trailer is not what I was expecting. Through it is 2 minutes and 25 seconds long, it feels shorter
than that and raises more questions than answers. It feels very different to the first “Avengers: Infinity
War” trailer released about a year ago. A difference between the two trailers is the fact that the first
“Avengers: Infinity War” trailer was a full trailer whereas the “Avengers: Endgame” trailer is only a
teaser trailer. It’s interesting that this trailer showed no action scenes. I know that as this film is a
massive blockbuster it will have a lot of action, but I hope this means that “Avengers: Endgame” will
have more slow scenes than “Avengers: Infinity War” as there are additional heroes in this film most
notably Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Scott Lang/Ant-Man, Hope van Dyne/The Wasp and Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel.
There is something interesting about the title. The directors Joe and Anthony Russo said in an
interview earlier this year that the title of “Avengers 4” wasn’t spoken in Infinity War, yet Doctor Strange told Tony in the film “We’re in the end game now”. I will add that Doctor Strange likely said
end game as two words instead of endgame as one word like in the film’s title. However, this shows
that filmmakers frequently lie about their films and I want to give my thoughts on another point the
filmmakers of “Avengers: Endgame” have said about the film. When Avengers 3 and 4 were
announced in October 2014, it was to be “Avengers: Infinity War - Part 1” and “Avengers: Infinity War
- Part 2”. In July 2016, Marvel began referring to the film as an “Untitled Avengers” film instead of
Infinity War Part 2. The film remained that way until this trailer which revealed the title as “Avengers:
Endgame”. The writers of both films, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have said that
Avengers 3 and 4 are very different films which aren’t part one and two of the same story. I don’t
doubt that the two films will be different, but I think these films can be both part one and two while
also being different and having their unique identity. One reason why I believe this is the case is
because Infinity War ended with Thanos winning with half of the life in the universe dying. This makes the story incomplete and bad for the heroes where the heroes need to undo the Decimation that is expected to happen in Endgame.
However, I will go into ways it could be different based on how I’d like to see Endgame turn out. One
thing unique about Infinity War is the fact that the villain Thanos had the most screen time and that
the film was almost from his point of view. I don’t expect that to be the case in this film. I hope that in
Endgame, Tony Stark has the most screen time as he’s my favourite Marvel Cinematic Universe
(MCU) character. I hope the fact that he opens the trailer is a sign of this. While Infinity War is a sci-fi
film, it also had a lot of fantasy elements making it a sci-fi/fantasy film. I’m a sci-fi fan, but not a
fantasy fan so I found the fantasy aspects to be not the best parts of Infinity War. There were the side villains the Children of Thanos who I thought were weak villains and didn’t like their fantasy
appearance. I hope that Endgame doesn’t have so many fantasy elements and is more of a sci-fi film than Infinity War. I hope that Endgame’s equivalent to the battle of Wakanada won’t have the fantasy villain creatures. From the trailer, this film does look more sci-fi which I like.
So that was some of my thoughts on the “Avengers: Endgame” trailer and film. While I would have
liked to have seen more of the film, I think it is a good trailer which I found moving and it got me more
excited for the film. I’m interested in hear other people’s thoughts/theories on the film. It’s less than
six months to go!
