Lego Marvel: Avengers ReAssembled

Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Avengers Reassembled is a delightful short animated spoof on the avenger’s movie.  It’s a loosely adapted story taking from the final films of phase 2 that is Age of Ultron and Ant-man. The animation was released on November of 2015, a few months after the summer release of Ant-Man, with release notes from civil war for having Spiderman making his cameo appearance in this story.

The animation keeps with the trend of using puns and rolling gags to occupy the brevity of its story.  The premise is very straight forward Tony Stark is going for Ice for his special announcement party when Utlron kidnaps him and controls the ironman armor and all of Tony’s Iron Legion.  It’s up to the avengers Captain America, Thor, Vision, The Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye to rescue him and save the world from annihilation. In this adventure, we as the viewer are introduced to little Sokovia a small district in New York and that appears to be a giant castle near central park west. Von Strucker and his members of Hydra have made a deal with Ultron, work for him and they get to keep a small part of the world...Australia..  That line or thought bubble  comes straight from Superman II as Gene Hackman’s Lex Luthor strikes a bargain with General Zod  in his conquest for world domination.  The film offers a little help from Ant-Man as Captain America like’s to refer to joking one liners of Scott Lang’s size in making the roll call of his name to fellow avengers.  Ant-Man is called in to combat yellow jacket another miniature character that’s in league with Ultron. 

The animation has a runtime of 22 minutes; just enough to tell a complete and fast pace story, and concludes just before you look down at your watch should you feel the story starts to drag.  Directed by Rob Silvertri, an animator by design that is just breaking into his own. His next project Blazing Samurai is set to release in the summer of 2021.