Iron Man and Captain America: Heroes United

Okay, stop me if you've heard this...

Have you ever watched a movie or a sequel (seeing how this acts like one) and felt it was just doing the same thing the first was doing?

Certainly felt that right there.

The plot is a bit different from the Hulk one but unfortunately all the same problems you hated about the Iron Man & Hulk film are still here...

And they turned up the badness volume to 8000.

Of course you know what that means...

The childish dialogue no sane hero would ever say is still here... except it's somehow even more childish and cringy to listen to. Well done writers.

The humour that wasn't funny in the Hulk film is still here... And if this doesn't ring a bell, I don't know what will but it still isn't funny.

The rather monotone voice work is still here.... except it's more monotone than ever before and when you even have Clancy Brown in your cast, that is not a good thing.

The painfully bad and lifeless animation is still here.... except it looks more lifeless with everyone moving more jerkily than ever before and some really REALLY bad fight choreography. You'll swear it looks like they're trying a spot of ballerina dancing instead.

Basically, I could have just copied and pasted everything I said about the Hulk film and the whole review would be almost identical.

Because that's what this miserable piece of crap is, identical. Identical in how poor the animation is, identical that no one in the cast seems to be giving it his or her all and identical in that you shouldn't even be thinking about plunking your money on something like this.

"Groundbreaking CG Animation!" I've seen more ground-breaking animation on an old Atari 2600 game, and that is truly saying something.

Heroes United should have been a tv series. If they had cut out all the pointless blather and friendly sparring, this would have been a solid half hour adventure. I'm not sure what they were going for with these movies but in classic Marvel style, they failed.

Iron Man & Captain America: Heroes United (2014) is a movie that I recently rewatched for the first time in a long time on Disney+. The storyline follows Captain America and Iron Man debating whose style and approach is better. Red Skull and Taskmaster join forces to steal weapons from Iron Man to help their new Hydra army conquer the world. Captain America and Iron Man will need to put their differences aside if they're going to save the human race.

This picture is directed by Leo Riley (Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United) and contains the voices of Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption), Fred Tatasciore (Team America), Roger Craig Smith(Suzume), Adrian Pasdar (Carlito's Way) and Liam O'Brien (JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time).

The animation for this is unique and some of it worked better for me than others. I could say the same about the voices that were selected to play the characters. This actually looked like video games at the time it was released. I did enjoy the animation during the opening credits and how the villains were voiced and portrayed. I also loved Hulk in this. However, Captain American and Iron Man's look and voices were better at times than others...and definitely a huge step down from Chris Evans and Downey Jr. The action scenes were pretty good and the final fight was entertaining. The storyline was worth following too.

Overall, this isn't as good as the DC animated pictures from this era, but it is still entertaining and worth a viewing. I would score this a 6/10 and recommend seeing it once.

It's a good movie. Not something I'd watch over and over, but it was worth a watch, PLUS, LIAM O'BRIAN!!!!!! CR baby all the way.

I have a theory. Marvel is SO successful on the silver screen, that they've decided to throw whatever is leftover on DVD, not really giving two craps if it's any good or not. While DC pours all their love into their DVD's, Marvel just give us mediocre nonsense like Iron Man.... I'm not writing that long ass title again.

So what's wrong with it? Short answer. EVERYTHING. Like Black Widow & Punisher Heroes United (damn! wtf is with these titles?!) IMCAHU also has horrible animation (see example below), boring voice casting and a story NOBODY cares about (Red Skull is the bad guy, Hail Hydra, you get the idea).

My biggest issue with this movie was the animation. Not even good enough to be on Saturday morning cartoons. IMHO, this kind of animation weakens a story, because it's stiff and affects the pacing badly. Action seems stilted and slowed compared to what's suppose to be going on.

There's not much else to say other than if you miss this, you aren't missing much. Only watch if you're some kinda die hard Marvel fan. Otherwise, stick to DC for the straight to DVD movies based on comics. Trust me, they might be stumbling on their big screen adaptations but they are consistently hitting home-runs on our flat screens.