Marvel have a busy month ahead of them with the oncoming release of their latest Marvel Cinematic Universe film The Marvels getting alot of the publicity attention. As such you'd be forgiven for not knowing that the company also had a Disney+ special out as well with that special coming at what is turning out to be a pretty bad time for Disney as such you all just knew that I had to check this special the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I review the special that for some really weird and really rather unknown reason makes Black Widow the main character with the special in question being called simply just "Lego Marvel Avengers: Code Red" enjoy.
The plot of this special is when everybody with the word red in their name starts getting by The Collector it's up to the Avengers to find him and to put a stop to his evil scheme before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad however that's also the issue as the plot of this special wasn't that good either as it gives us no reason as to hwy the entire Avengers line up plus Wolverine is needed for this mission but I will admit that this specials plot is really fairly exciting and engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this special is Mick Wingert as Tony Stark / Iron Man , Arkady Gregorivich Rossovich / Omega Red and Hot Dog Vendor and Roger Craig Smith as Steve Rogers / Captain America , Ivan Kragoff / Red Ghost , Brother and Bystander. Also starring in this special is , Laura Bailey as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow , Little Girl and Sister , Travis Willingham as Thor and Wendigo 2 , regular Hulk voice actor Fred Tatasciore as Bruce Banner / Hulk , Wendigo 1 and Santa Claus , Steve Blum as James Howlett / Wolverine , Wendigo 3 and Hydra Goon 5 , James C. Mathis III as T'Challa / Black Panther , Bumper Robinson as Sam Wilson / Captain America and Hydra Goon 4 , Trevor Devall as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian and Hydra Goon #1 , Haley Joel Osment as Taneleer Tivan / The Collector , Liam O'Brien as Johann Schmidt / Red Skull and Hydra Goon 2 , Laura Post as Betty Ross / Red She-Hulk , Milk Woman and Computer Voice and Will Friedle as Hydra Goon 3.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very very special was in all honesty really good. Which really isn't all that shocking as alot of the cast in this special have been playing their respective characters for decades at this point and so they would of course know what kind of performance would suit their characters and it helps that alt of this specials cat are bunch of really good actors and actresses.
Doing the animation for this special is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Atomic Cartoons. Now then inters of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / resented to us in this very special was in all honesty. Not that bad with animation in this special really being alot better then what it really had any right to be but at the same time the animation isn't as good as it perhaps could or maybe even should have been.
For some strange reason the makers of this special chose to make Natasha Romanoff the main characters. Which is something that really didn't sit right with me as anything to do with The Avengers should be more of an ensemble piece and not have one singular main character this made even worse when you take into account that all of the The Avengers apart from Natasha Romanoff feel alot more like side characters when the special is quite literally named after the whole group and not just Black Widow which really does ht home my point that this really should have been more of a ensemble piece as that really is the only, way to do an Avengers special well.
I hated the fact that alot of the characters in the The Avengers got alot more sidelined then other members did. With both Tony Stark and Black Panther being the worst example of this as both of those characters just straight up disappear from the special for a large portion of the specials running time which is odd as both of them could have taken down The Collector by themselves just by outsmarting him and yet for some reason the makers behind the special chose to have both characters disappear from the special and not only that they play no meaningful part in the specials third act which means that the characters really didn't need to be included in this special as everything would still play out the exact same way.
While The Collector is an interesting villain he's not a villain that really requires the entire Avengers team to get together in order to beat him. As really any of them could have gone on this mission with Wolverine and the results would be the exact same and when you add in the whole team should really only get together when there's a villain tat requires the entire team in order to beat them for example Loki and Thanos then it makes me wonder why the makers of this special chose such a weak villain in order to go against that's quite obviously going to beat him yes this special is made for kids ad so it's not expected that you give the team a good villain but that should mean that you go the extra mile as that will only serve to help your special and not hinder it.
Now then his special has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty three minuets and thirty three seconds. Which is pretty much the best running time tat this special could have had as when you get right down to it this special really doesn't have alot of story and only has enough story for about forty five minuets and that's really it and while there are some scenes in this special that do feel like padding they happen so early on in the special that you can kind of forgive it for being there and when the specials plot does get going almost every single scene is there to advance the plot with no scene really feeling like padding in the slightest with this being helped by the fact that this special really does have some really good pacing to it.
So now then as this sis an action special that means that I have to actually talk abut the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad. With this special having the kind of action that you'd expect to see in a kids Lego superhero themed special and while we do indeed get some really creative looking action in this special we don't really get to see what each member of the team brings to the team during those action scenes which is shame because like I said we get some really cool and creative looking action scenes in this special in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while it's as clear as day that this special was just made to sell more Lego Avengers toys it was still a really enjoyable special that was alot better then what it really had right to be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about al of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very special in this very review and as such that means that this very special earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls ad as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page , the official Disney fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very special that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on Google Images are all really fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.