Marvel fans since I had a good time taking a look at a few episodes of the Guardians Of The Galaxy animated series about a few days ago. I thought that I might like to spend the next few days talking about the of the recent Disney Marvel animated shows starting with a pretty badly named show given that it also shows the name of the first Avengers movie and so join me as I review the first two episodes of "Avengers Assemble" with the first two episode both being called "The Avengers Protocol" and so enjoy the review.
The plot of these first two episodes is that Red Skull while fighting Captain America has both himself and Captain America teleported somewhere else in the world and so it's up to Iron Man to get a disbanded Avengers back together and bring in some fresh blood to help save Captain America and stop the villain before he destroys New York. Sorry my summery was a little long but that was the best that I could do as for my opinions on the story first of i'm glad that this was a two part premier because you really couldn't fit all of what happens in these episodes into one single episode and secondly the story told was honestly epic enough that it deserved to be two parts.
Starring in these episodes are Adrian Pasdar as Tony Stark / Iron Man and Roger Craig Smith as Steve Rogers / Captain America. Also starring in these episodes are Travis Willingham as Thor , Fred Tatasciore as Bruce Banner / Hulk , Troy Baker as Cling Burton / Hawkeye , Laura Bailey as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow , Bumper Robinson as Sam Wilson / Falcon , Liam O'Brien as Red Skull , Charlie Adler as M.O.D.O.K. and David Kaye as J.A.R.V.I.S.
Acting wise I felt that the actors in these episodes did a really good job which given that a few of them are voice acting legends isn't really a surprise nor is it a surprise given that Fred Tatasciore has voiced Hulk several times in the past and so he knows what kind of performance would suit this character. As for the other actors they do a really good job playing these characters and making the characters there own.
Doing the animation for these two episodes and the rest of the series is Sunmin Image Pictures Co. don't worry if you've not heard of them i've not heard of them either. Now I know that this might make some of you angry but I actually like the animation in these episodes to me the animation at least was honestly really good and was alot better then it really had any right to be which for me is always a huge plus.
I'm not going to lie and say that this the best Marvel animated product every made simply because I feel that that has yet to be made. However in terms of the Disney produced Marvel animated shows the animation here is alot better then the animation in alot of Disney shows hell it's alot better then the animation seen in a lot of the mid 2000's Disney animated movies it's that good but then again saying the animation is alot better then the one's seen in any mid 2000's animated movies isn't really a high bar to reach.
Now this show for some strange reason bares the exact same name as the title of the first Avengers at least if your from the UK and that's where you saw the first movie anyways. So that basically means that if your from or in any country where the first film was released as Avengers Assemble you actually have to specify that your talking about the film and not the show on top of all this poster to both the show and the movie are basically the exact same.
I honestly have no idea why they chose to give the name of the show the exact same name as the movie since while it won't confuse people in America it would confuse people in other countries. Why they didn't just call it Avengers is beyond me since people would at least be able to tell the two apart even if the poster is the exact same one released for the movie which i'm actually fine with since from a marketing standpoint that actually makes sense since people would associate that poster design and layout with the first Avengers movie.
No matter how bad the show or film is it's always going to be cool seeing the Avengers fight each other and yeah the same is true here. Hell the only bad thing about this idea is that we don't get to see any interesting combinations we only see people who you think they would fight and that's just not that interesting even more so when you take into account that we just saw Thor and Hulk fight each other and Hawkeye and Black Widow fight each other in the first Avengers movie.
Try as I might I cannot find that much wrong with these episodes the only real thing that springs to mind is the pacing of both the episodes is pretty bad. There are times during both episodes were I felt bored and wanted to turn the episodes of but I stuck with them just to give you guys this review but trust me when I tell you that these episodes could and really should have been better paced at least in my opinion.
Now then boys and girls since this is an action show and there is action in these episodes that does mean that I have to talk about the action that's in these episodes. Which I honestly feel was really enjoyable since we did get to see alot of cool stuff in those action scenes and the animation was really good during the action scenes and it's always cool seeing all of the Avengers fight side by side to take down a bad guy.
Overall yeah these episodes are honestly pretty good I obviously cannot say if there better then other Avengers animated series but in terms of the Disney produced Marvel animated shows these episodes are solid. That being said as i've talked about in this review these episodes do have at least one major issue but i'm sure that you guys will find more and tell me about them as such these two episodes get a combined score of a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
All the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official Disney fandom wiki page , the official Avengers Assemble fandom wiki page or google Images. I honestly feel that the place to get images for this show is the Disney fandom wiki age not due to how many there are because there's not alot but due to how HQ they are which for me at least a big selling point but you guys feel free to use whatever website you want.