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2006
Lionsgate DVD
This was the first of a series of animated direct to DVD movies that Marvel started doing in the mid 2000s. Semi based on the Ultimates comic. The Ultimates comic is the Ultimate universe's version of the Avengers.
The film starts off in World War II. With Captain America stopping the Nazi's from launching a missile. He discovers that some of the Nazi's are actually shape shifting aliens. Cap ends up on another missile that gets launched. And when it explodes he falls into the cold waters of the North Atlantic. This causes him to go into a form of suspended animation. We jump ahead to the present day and Cap is found and revived by a team of Shield agents led by Nick Fury. Fury ends up recruiting a bunch of other heroes. They are Ant-man,Wasp,Iron Man,Thor and the Black Widow. And this newly formed team ends up having to fight off an invasion of the same aliens Cap discovered back in World War II.
Before seeing this film I had read the first series of The Ultimates. And really enjoyed it. I liked the different take on Captain America. Well the film is a weird mixture of The Ultimates comic plus the Marvel 616 continuity.Now I have heard some people say the animation in the film isn't that good. I would have to disagree,I thought the animation was pretty good for a direct to video film.
The DVD has a few extra features. The only one I really liked was a trivia track. When turned on the trivia track will give you various bits of information while the movie is playing. There is also a featurette,that seems to be mainly aimed at people that don't know much about the Avengers. The DVD also has a "What Avenger are you?" feature that you have to use a computer to access. I have never bothered to try this feature out. Ultimate Avengers the movie gets a B.
