


Tony’s cozy existence living in a rustic cabin on the edge of a rural lake and devotedly raising a child certainly suggests that he has finally wed Pepper, though this is never explicitly stated. But, after a recent brush with death, Tony is reluctant to endanger his happy home life - shared with true love Virginia “Pepper” Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) and their little daughter - for the sake of such a risky mission. To achieve this, his fellow Avengers will need to win over tech whiz Tony Stark aka Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), the only person who can safely engineer such a cutting-edge feat.
Why not use it to travel back in time and prevent Thanos from assembling all the stones necessary to his scheme? His travels, while miniaturized, in the quantum realm have revealed to Scott that that alternate dimension operates by its own chronological rules. Until, that is, Scott Lang aka Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) proposes a possible solution. Yet their defeat at Thanos’ hands seems irreversible. Primarily set five years after cosmic villain Thanos (Josh Brolin) used a set of energy-endowed gems to wipe out half of all the living creatures in the universe, the film finds the members of the titular ensemble, like humanity at large, still mourning the loss of many friends and loved ones. So parents under siege from older adolescents agog to take in this three-hour extravaganza can give the go-ahead with little worry. With its action mayhem mostly stylized and its cast too busy fighting evil to spend any time in the bedroom, only some wayward language, an ambiguous domestic arrangement and passing mention of a gay relationship really mark this as material for grown-ups. Aficionados of the Marvel Comics universe are likely to be thrilled by the sweeping epic “Avengers: Endgame” (Disney).Įven moviegoers less committed to that imaginary realm can hardly fail to be impressed as directors (and brothers) Anthony and Joe Russo’s grand finale deftly weaves together whole franchises spanning 21 previous films.
