Watch: Epic First Trailer for “The Avengers”
Marvel and Paramount have released the much anticipated first trailer for Joss Whedon’s The Avengers online and oh my, it’s an absolutely epic teaser. Want to see what a movie with Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye would look like? You are in for a treat. Overall, this looks like every single penny of the production budget will be seen on-screen with glimpses of some massive action set-pieces. Normally, a trailer playing to the tunes of the Nine Inch Nails track ‘We’re in This Together’ would have been totally corny but it works here.
The Avengers stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, and Cobie Smulders. It opens in 3D on May 4th, 2012. Check out the embed below or click over to Apple to see the trailer in HD. Let us know what you think!
Marvel Studios presents in association with Paramount Pictures “Marvel’s The Avengers”–the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Joss Whedon, “Marvel’s The Avengers” is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series “The Avengers,” first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since. Prepare yourself for an exciting event movie, packed with action and spectacular special effects, when “Marvel’s The Avengers” assemble in summer 2012. In “Marvel’s The Avengers,” superheroes team up to pull the world back from the brink of disaster when an unexpected enemy threatens global security.
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I think it is safe to say that, bar Joss Whedon accidentally falling into a coma and the directorial helm of this film being passed over to Joel Schumacher, that ‘The Avengers’ will be nothing short of wall-to-wall comic-book goodiness! Also, once again, Downey Jr. steals the limelight with every one of his witty, one-liners in that trailer.
Well it’s way too early to say that ahah. But so far, it doesn’t disappoint… I think.
Hello Michael Bay!!… What do you mean it’s not him?
Hahahaha… It has to have an high explosion to word ratio with a low injury to death ratio to be a Bay film… maybe people die and say some stuff before they do in this film. Maybe Joss Whedon is throwing his hat into the ring for biggest onscreen explosion… for ages its just been Bay and Nolan slogging it out, it’d be good to see someone else in this puerile but entertaining pissing contest
Well all those shots of people looking up or shooting at elevated target and explosions in the streets certainly remind of the latest Michael Bay efforts.
It would have been much better without that terrible song. I’m a bit disappointed
Terrible song? You must be crazy lady! Nine Inch Nails freaking rocks
could have been worse. Could have been some gangster rap. But yeah, the hard rock in action movies is overplayed.
YOU DISSING MY NINE INCH NAILS! OH, THERE GOING TO BE HELL TO PAY!!!!
this is embarrassingly bad, everything looks so sleek and shiny
I take it you prefer to see Twilight Breaking Dawn?
$5 and a cherry coke on Twilight doing better than The Avengers
I’ll take that bet! you’re on!
Nice. Please ship the cherry coke with dry ice. I like it cool. You may forward the $5 to the University of Minnesota, we desperately need it.
Rather like a cromagnon forehead no?
Me likely. Me want more.
Yo Red, good to see you are back on the internet
I know I was going to skip all promotional stuff for this film, BUT THIS TRAILER WAS JUST F-ING AHMAZING!! I need to see this…so much.
Looks good to me. The marketing war with The Dark Knight Rises is going to be awesome for fans………
Agreed, The DKR will win… only due to the success of Dark Knight though, but it’ll be fun to see Marvel and DC (with the financial backing of Hollywood) slogging it out once again in the public arena
ScarJo makes a great Emma Peel, but I dunno if I buy RDJ as John Steed. :-p
Yes, I’m definitely up for this one… and curious where Whedon will take it. Thanks for the trailer sneak.
Thanks for dropping by le0pard!
Looks awesome. I can see how this trailer would remind people of Michael bay, but i have faith in Whedon that he won’t make it all about explosions(Although i will admit i found the first Transformers movie decent…but thats about it)
And does Black Widow have a thing for the crotch grab technique? She used it in the iron man movie, and it looks like she is using it again in this one
I guess that’s her signature move ah
Oh dear. Looks like the hundred other comic book adaptations we’ve had in recent years.
I guess I’m not too familiar with these characters but who is ScarJo supposed to be playing? She certainly has the Zoolander look down. Maybe it’s her character trait to be so serious but I find it cheesy that her expression just doesn’t change whether she is talking to someone, escaping an explosion, or shooting at people.
Black Widow. She appeared in the second iron man movie
gotcha. I never saw Iron Man but will give it a shot at some point.
“her expression just doesn’t change whether she is talking to someone, escaping an explosion, or shooting at people”
That pretty much sums up most if not all of Scar-Jo’s performances.
Looks cool, I hope the fight scene between The Hulk and Thor will be as epic as Joss Whedon promised.
I thought they were on the same team!?
Whedon said in an interview he wrote a scene in the script where Hulk and Thor went mano a mano, apparently at one point The Hulk was supposed to be the main villain in the film but they decided to make him part of the team. But I assume he wanted to include the fight just for the fans of the comics, also I saw the cartoon version where Thor, Iron Man and Hulk were in a fight.
Looks good. The effects work looks outstanding, which is nice.
My only complaint, and I didnt realize it until now, is why go with Loki as the bad guy? Who are they going to actually fight? Is he going to mind control some people or trick the avengers into fighting each other or something?
Should have gone with the skrulls or hydra so there could have been much henchman ass to kick.
If I remember correctly the Skrulls are involved as well.
Well, who else besides Loki could conceivably threaten everyone on the Avengers?
True, the man is a God. No amount of super soldier serum or armored suits can change that.
It’s an alright trailer though the highlight for me is NIN. Don’t be dissing my NIN or I’m going to go GATOR on yo’ punk-asses!
Ahaaha well, good thing I didn’t say anything bad on NIN
super excited to see this come to the big screen. The trailer is fantastic and nice to see a little bit of the Hulk!
The Avengers! woohoo!!
Is it just me, or does Robert Downey Jr. make everything just a bit cooler?
Yeah, my sentiment exactly. This is kind of like Iron Man 3… with friends
His quip to Bruce Banner is precious!!
Well, hopefully this isn’t Iron Man 3 with friends. That would be terrible!
Yeah boy. Trailer or no trailer, I’m more excited to see this movie than any other 16 year old girl on this planet!
Looks decent, though I suspect there will be stuff added into some of the footage we see here– I feel like something’s missing from the opening shots of the streets exploding.
The film’s big faux-pas at present appears to be Tony Stark coining the team name, or at least working it into the dialogue; it’s the kind of line that frothing Whedon fanatics will defend to their dying breath despite how utterly idiotic it is. Great, Tony, thanks, I’m glad to know that while scavenging dogs tear scraps of flesh off my charred corpse, you’ll be making up for failing to defend us all with your orgy of superheroes by avenging us. What a consolation. Dick.
Other than that…yeah, I suppose I’m excited. I’m curious to see more Hulk, but I imagine we’ll be treated to that in the full trailer when enough of the movie is in the can.
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