While Marvel has had a quite the solid week with the new Venom movie coming out and rather rightfully taking up alot of media and fan attention. It would be fully understandable if alot of you either A didn't know about this special in the first place or B just straight up forgot about well the house of ideas did also release a brand new Lego special about a week or so ago and well this was the first time since then that i've been able to cover it and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the special that sees two nineties kids TV stars team up for the first time ever with the special un question being called simply just "LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition" enjoy.
The plot of this special is when a worker for the group Damage Control accidently helps an evil alien unleash a device that jails all of the Avengers it's up to him and the head of Vision to find away to break The Avengers out and stop the alien from taking over the world 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 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 and was alot better then what it really had any right to he but at the same time tho the plot of the previous special Lego Marvel Avengers: Code Red was the much more better plot with the plot of this special feeling more like the plot that you'd see in a bad Lego DC movie or even a good Marvel animated movie and not the kind of plot that really sells you on these characters as this specials plot does feel like something that a kid would come up with and not in the fun way like in The Lego Movie rather it's in the wrong with this specials plot just being weak for alot of the time but when the special does try to do something interesting with it's plot it is something that works really well with the plot of this plot of this special also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this special is Will Friedle as Dennis / Demolition Man , Kevin Smith as Terry / Terrax and David Kaye as Vision and Hot Dog Suit Vendor. Also starring in this special is John Stamos as Tony Stark / Iron Man , Roger Craig Smith as Steve Rogers / Captain America , Frank Castle / Punisher and Ben Grimm / Thing , Ogie Banks as Sam Wilson / Captain America , Laura Bailey as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow and Statue Of Liberty , Fred Tatasciore as Bruce Banner / Hulk , Devil Dinosaur and Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider , Travis Willingham as Thor , James C. Mathis as T'Challa / Black Panther and Candy Suit Vendor , Tiffany Thiessen as Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk , Susie Essman as Gloria , Trevor Devall as Rocket Raccoon Ulysses Klaue / Klaw and Popcorn Suit Vendor , Scott Porter as Bobby Drake / Iceman and Marc Spector / Moon Knight , Julie Nathanson as Mary MacPherran / Titania and Alison Blaire / Dazzler , Diamond White as Lunella Lafayette / Moon Girl , Lily Sanfelippo as Gwen Stacy / Ghost-Spider , Steve Blum as James Howlett / Wolverine Remy LeBeau / Gambit and Peter Petruski / Trapster , Vanessa Marshall as Susan Storm / Invisible Woman and The Computer Voice , Jason Mantzoukas as Wade Wilson / Deadpool , Benjamin Brady as Excited Fan , Tom Brady as Himself and Kevin Michael Richardson as Lenny Ballinger.
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 the in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty no that bad for the most part. As there some decent performances in this special but at the same time tho it is very distracting hearing John Stamos as Tony Stark as you don't hear the character all you hear is John Stamos which makes you wonder why they recast Mick Wingert who not only turned in good performances as the cast but was the pitch perfect voice for the character as well and it's like for alot of the characters in this special with the actors turning in some really good performances but alot of the characters also being very miscast like Kevin Smith as Terry / Terrax with Kevin Smith having such a very recognisable voice that you really don't see the character anymore you just hear Kevin Smith trying to put on a performance with his performance perhaps being the worst one which is of no fault of his as he's not a trained actor he's a director which really makes you wonder why Disney and Marvel cast him in this special in the first place with the acting that's in this very special not really being helped by thew fact that this special script is just so bad as it gives none of this specials absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very special.
Doing the animation for this special is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Atomic Cartoons. Now then interms 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 / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty really good with the special really embracing the fact that everything is made out of lego with even the flames in the specials various explosions being made up of lego pieces which was some nice attention ton detail but at the same time tho this specials just lacks that extra something that was present in the theatrically released Lego movies as while yes the animation that's in this special is indeed really good you can still tell that it was made in a computer and thus it looses something as opposed to The Lego Movie for example where it genuinely looked like a kid was moving those lego pieces around which added to the overall charm of the animation in that film and if anything that is something that really should have bee presented in this special as after all these lego specials are made to sell the lego toy sets and thus having the animation reflect that would make a whole lot of sense but this films animation is also really good as it does give the characters some really nice fluid movements and some very highly detailed backgrounds to them as well.
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This film does feature alot of nods to other Marvel characters with alot of them having cameos in the special. With the likes of Daredevil and The Beast for example making silent appearances in this special but what had to be the oddest call back was the fact that Black Panther straight quotes Storm's toad line from X-Men in the special and it doesn't make any sense as in the film Storm is saying that line to Toad so there is some connection there but in the special Black Panther is saying it to Terrax who isn't a Toad like creature nor does he look anything like Toad and as a result of that is the fact that the line comes across as being a fanservice moment for the sake of being a fanservice moment where as all f the other fanservice moment at least added something to the special like the fact that all of the heroes live in New York and Dennis literally runs into several of them on his way home from work which might seem like a pointless moment but at the same time it also sets up that there are several heroes just in New York alone and so there is some relevance to that sequence where as with the Toad X-Men line reference there's really no point to that line of dialog being there with the line itself oddly enough being even more unfunny in this special then what it was in the original X-Men film as in the very least in the original X-Men Storm is at the very least saying it to Toad where as here that really just isn't the case at all.
As a comedy this special isn't all that good as alot of this films jokes are very kid friendly and are the kinds of jokes that only really little kids will like. Which is something that does make alot of sense as not only is Lego a very kid friendly brand but the special itself is also made for little kids and with little kids in mind but at the same time tho you still need to have some actually funny jokes in this special and while Deadpool does indeed get a really credits joke at the end of the special and She-Hulks running joke about her being the only one allowed to break the fourth wall before quite literally running into a fourth wall is a really funny joke but at the same time tho little kids aren't going to get that joke as alot of them won't even understand the concept behind the fourth wall in the first place and even the specials main character of Dennis does get a decent running joke with his neighbour always saying hateful things towards only for her to turn around and say that she's always supported him when he does join The Avengers is a slightly funny joke in this special and alot of the special jokes are like as while there are some really decent jokes in this special the special is made up of alot more bad and painfully jokes then it does have good jokes and while yes little kids might find all of this special jokes to be really funny alot of the adults watching this special or anyone who's over the age of ten won't find all of this specials jokes to be really funny in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
The specials villain Terrax isn't that bad for this kind of special as for a kid friendly special he is a passable villain. However at the same time tho he isn't the strongest villain that they could have used like for example the special straight up hints at Galactus with the machine that Terrax uses having lights that don't work so the only working lights spell out the word Galactus and all that does is make you wonder why he wasn't used as a the specials main villain as Terrax has nothing all that interesting about him outside of the fact that he's voiced by Kevin Smith and while yes it would have been very hard for them to do Galactus in a way that's suitable for young kids it still doesn't change thew fact that he would have been a much more better villain as Terrax doesn't even have that much of an end goal outside of the fact that he wants to get rid of all of the heroes in New York and yet they never really fully explain why he wants to do that and as a result of that is the fact that it just comes across as him wanting to do these evil things just because he can do and not because of the fact that it helps him achieve any kind of goal all of which does go along way to make him a less interesting villain which is a shame as he does have a really cool design to him and it would be great to see a character with this design be incorporated into the main Marvel canon and not just be a character that was made for this special.
Now the this special has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty minuets and eleven seconds. Which is a solid running time for this special to have as this special really does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time as the plot of this special doesn't really require a longer running time in order to fully tell it's story to the best that it really could have done and while yes this special really would have been helped if it did have a slightly longer running time even if it's just five minuets given that this special is made for little kids and with little kids in mind having a special that's almost an hour long might be pushing it for little kids even if it would mean that the extra running time would allow for the specials characters to get across at the very least some of what it is there personalities are meant to be but at the same time tho given this special target audience are indeed little kids and they don't typically care about having fully formed characters as they just want the characters as they know them to be and that's really it and that's exactly what they get in this special with it's characters and with that in mind having a long running time doesn't really make alot of sense as it's something that kids won't really be looking for but it is something that the kids parents and that fans of the comic books will be looking out for tho but I really will admit that this special really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is an action special that really does mean that I have to actually talk about 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. As we do get some really fun filled action scenes in this special with the best example of this being the specials third act in which we get to see alot of the heroes come together to team up up and take on Terrax all while "I Need A Hero" by Bonnie Taylor is playing which does make it really fun scene but at the same time all it did was make me think of the scene in Shrek 2 with Shrek and co running through the castle to get to Princess Fiona all the while the exact same song is playing over it and while the action in this special really is indeed really good and really fun given the heroes that they have appear in this special it would have been all the more better if the special actually did take the time to show alot more heroes fighting Terrax which would have made him look like more of threat and it would have shown that it takes all of the heroes to take him down and it it would have been a really fun scene as well with the special third act fight also being the specials best action scene as it really will always be fun to see a group of heroes coming together and seeing all of them use there respective powers to take down a bad guy in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall while Lego Marvel Avengers: Code Red might be the better special this special is also really fun and is something that little kids can very easily get behind as it has all of the characters that they all like acting in the way that they know them to do with this special also being a really harmless kids special as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things thar re in this very special in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very special really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.
Now the as for where I personally got all of the mages that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and 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 Database fandom wiki page , the official Disney fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very special that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very special with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.
