Take 1: Fat Thor and his MCU compadres plan how to defeat the only being in the galaxy, Thanos, with a solution for the destructive nature of humankind. Still, Avengers: Endgame got me all swole up with Iron Man’s sub-story.
Take 2: Avengers: Endgame: in which the paradox of time travel is self-consciously unpacked as an illusion of movies that ends, after 3 hours, with room for another cycle of movies that will no doubt require more time travel.
Take 3: Spun around time travel and environmentalism, Avengers: Endgame steps on the toes of its own narrative logic even as it gratifies with so much overproduced, comic book beauty.
–November 30, 2022
