Weakest MCU film?

[Spider-Aziz]

Were you born in Italy?

Raniarok

 

[B]

Were you born in Italy?

 

[Doug_Moore]

Iron Man 3.

Definitely Homecoming. The movies on the list were nowhere near as excruciatingly boring to sit through.

Yeah. I wasn't impressed. I felt they were trying too hard to appeal to kids / teenagers.

Thor: Ragnarok, largely because it's the freshest in my mind. Completely pointless & unnecessary tonal shift from the first 2 Thor movies turning the movie (& Thor character) into a slapstick comedy.. a movie called Thor: Ragnarok & it's probably the most over the top comedy in the MCU.

I would've enjoyed Thor 3 if Thor hadn't been doing stand-up for most of the film.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

Iron Man 2: Weak villains and no plot. The War Machine and Iron Man fight is goofy. Too much Avengers setup and not a worthy followup to the first Iron Man.

Thor The Dark World: This movie lost me after the main villain gets his ass kicked by Thor's mom. Natalie Portman clearly doesn't want to be there.

Avengers Age of Ultron: Once Ultron teams up with Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver the movie loses steam and never regains its footing.

 

[Thör-El]

Iron Man 3 stands out as the worst to me. The mix of a PTSD character arc and comedy was jarring and between the Mandarin plot twist, the weak actual villain, and the armour falling apart for bad slapstick every fight scene I came out of the cinema more disappointed than any other MCU film.

Homecoming and Dark World were letdowns too but they had cool moments.

 

[DACrowe]

Avengers: Age of Ultron. It is the worst offender of Marvel's interconnected need to constantly be marketing, as opposed to telling its single story. The only difference between it and X-Men: Apocalypse is that it has better CGI, and audiences like the MCU so much they can overlook how mediocre and hollow it all rings.

I would then say Thor: The Dark World. Iron Man 2 and The Incredible Hulk are a toss up. Those are the four lone duds in the MCU, but none of them are explicitly awful.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Avengers: Age of Ultron. It is the worst offender of Marvel's interconnected need to constantly be marketing, as opposed to telling its single story. The only difference between it and X-Men: Apocalypse is that it has better CGI, and audiences like the MCU so much they can overlook how mediocre and hollow it all rings.

I think the other difference is that Age of Ultron has a much stronger central protagonist in Tony Stark than Apocalypse has. I do really like McAvoy's Xavier, but he's reduced to more of a supporting role in this film as opposed to his first two.

But I agree for the most part. And you are right about how being a part of the MCU helps AoU get overlooked. It really is almost more comparable to a television show than a typical film series. Even the best shows have their clunkers. For example, most of Batman: The Animated Series was so great that nobody really cares that I've Got Batman in My Basement sucked.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Weakest is probably TDW, but I can throw in there the other two Thor films (yes, Ragnarok is ugh too), Hulk, IM2-3, AoU (which I still very much like for some reason).

 

[Zarex]

Admittedly the ending is mediocre at best - We needed fewer, more formidable Ultrons - but AoU has a ton of great stuff although it doesnt coalesce like its predecessor. The opening battle, the team party, Hulkbuster vs Hulk!, the farm, the laboratory fight, the birth of Vision, the anti-MOS rescue scene, the final scene with Vision and Ultron.....all great stuff. I wish Whedon didnt shy away from showing the indestructible monster from the comics but it speaks well of the MCU that a film some consider to be its worst entry is still darn entertaining.

 

[honestbharani]

Honestly nothing about AoU felt "bad" or "weak" to me in isolation. Comparatively, especially if its against the first Avengers, I can understand why it's easily #2 but it was still a damn good movie in its own right. I find TIH to be far less entertaining even if it is more solid across the board compared to AoU which had its big peaks and rather low (for the MCU) troughs.

 

[Silver Surfer]

Iron Man 3 or GTFO.

 

[Themanofbat]

I'd have rewatch TIH, TDW and IM2 again before making an assessment...

 

[Spider-Fan]

Sometimes I feel like the only guy in the world that loves AoU, lol.

 

[zachthegeek]

Sometimes I feel like the only guy in the world that loves AoU, lol.

No, I’m with you there. While I would’ve liked to see Ultron done differently, and the IW teasing Thor scenes were distracting, I feel that the movie further developed the relationships between the characters in a way that made it a ton of fun to watch.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Sometimes I feel like the only guy in the world that loves AoU, lol.

I love it, but I'm not gonna say it's a strong film.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I think the biggest issue AoU is that yes, Thor's hot tub is odd, stupid, and makes no sense. Heck, didn't even look dangerous. I would much rather had taken a bath than do what Cap was doing around that time

Other than that, I love it.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I think it's a toss up between TIH and Thor: The Dark World. But at least TDW had Hemsworth and Hiddleston and the rest of the cast. The only things really connecting TIH to the MCU anymore are William Hurt and the RDJ cameo at the end. It's the easiest MCU film to just ignore if you don't care for it.

To be fair, I did really enjoy Norton in TIH and I even preferred him to Ruffalo initially, but he's really the only good thing about the movie.

I also feel Ant-Man is really weak but the sequel looks like a blast.

 

[DACrowe]

I think the other difference is that Age of Ultron has a much stronger central protagonist in Tony Stark than Apocalypse has. I do really like McAvoy's Xavier, but he's reduced to more of a supporting role in this film as opposed to his first two.

But I agree for the most part. And you are right about how being a part of the MCU helps AoU get overlooked. It really is almost more comparable to a television show than a typical film series. Even the best shows have their clunkers. For example, most of Batman: The Animated Series was so great that nobody really cares that I've Got Batman in My Basement sucked.

I think you're right. I don't think they resolve Tony's arc (if there was one), but he at least initially had a stronger hook into the story than any of the mutants in Apocalypse.

And yes, as long as the MCU is a strong "series," they can stand if maybe one out of every 7 movies or so is less than awesome.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I also think Ultron is a much better villain than Apocalypse. While I'll admit that his evil plot is dumb and he's not as threatening as he could have been, I still really enjoyed him and I thought Spader did some great voice work. Apocalypse was just a massive disappointment on every level.

 

[Zarex]

I really liked Spader in the role, but I don't think the script did him any favors. After his glorious entrance Vision pointed out that his creator was in pain. Why was he in pain? Was he sad about not being a real boy? Does he want his Vision back? Was he upset about the break up with the twins? And while his plan to evolve the human race through cataclysm made some sense, I prefer the organic life hating guy from the comics.

 

[psylockolussus]

Thor 2.

Avengers: Age of Ultron. It is the worst offender of Marvel's interconnected need to constantly be marketing, as opposed to telling its single story. The only difference between it and X-Men: Apocalypse is that it has better CGI, and audiences like the MCU so much they can overlook how mediocre and hollow it all rings.

You clearly forgot better character utilization and action. Apocalypse wishes it got more better reviews. They are not the same.

Here you are again with your usual habit of putting down a MCU film to make your favorite X-Men movie look better and act as if audiences are dumb not to see quality. How condescending.

 

[Venom 1988]

Thor: The Dark World for me.

 

[NotNickFury]

Thor 2.


You clearly forgot better character utilization and action. Apocalypse wishes it got more better reviews. They are not the same.

Here you are again with your usual habit of putting down a MCU film to make your favorite X-Men movie look better and act as if audiences are dumb not to see quality. How condescending.

You're going after what you see as a 'habit' of putting down a film and call it condescending? There's literally not enough irony in this post.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Keep it friendly guys.

 

[SPO2 Dalisay]

Thor: The Dark World, everything else I either own or will watch some of when it rotates to free TV