Avengers: End Game Trailer Review

Last week the much anticipated Avengers: End Game trailer was released. In the past, trailers have never been so anticipated, but with the extreme success of Marvel studios over the past ten years every hint of a new movie is a big deal. Avengers: End Game is slated to come out April 26 and excitement is building for the fourth installation in the Avengers series. The trailer has been waited for with high excitement since the release of its predecessor, Avengers: Infinity War. Infinity War is commonly regarded as the best movie in the already stellar Marvel Studios line up.

The trailer for Avengers: End Game was as anticipated as you may expect a full movie made by another company to be, and it lived up to expectations. It shows us what we can expect for the few heros that remained after the unfortunate events of Infinity War. For the most part, the trailer portrays the movie more grim than any other Marvel movie. Marvel choose to feature more dialogue in this trailer rather than the typical flashy action and one liners.

Based on the ending of the last movie, this switch is not surprising. Infinity War left many of Marvel’s newer heros sadly dead, and End Game is expected to retire many of Marvel’s oldest heros. With such a sad expectation of the plot, it is no surprise Marvel left out a lot of the action and comedy of one of the studios more typical movies. Although, the trailer omitted these elements there is no doubt the movie will still include stunning action at some point.

Darker themes were reflected in the trailer by the overall darker color scheme used and many symbols throughout. First, Marvel uses an effect where all of the text that comes on screen blows off like dust. This is a reference to how characters in the last movie died by disintegrating into dust. The other symbols Marvel utilized to remind us of Infinity War were more blatant. Scenes such as pictures of all the fallen heros and cities empty of people served as a further reminder to the fate of the universe after Infinity war.

The result of Avengers: End Game on the Marvel Universe will surely be impactful, but perhaps the fan response will be even greater. Over the past ten years, Marvel Studios has been amassing one of the biggest fan bases and with End Game being the symbolic end of an era it should make a killing in the box office. Infinity War has made it to the fourth highest grossing movie of all time, but End Game could make it to number one.

By Jake Bogartz