Avengers: Endgame reviewed by Mark Kermode 

Wouldn't be a real Kermode without it.

He wakes to his alarm clock playing Tubular Bells every morning.

He mentioned it again later in the show, the similarities between The Exorcist trilogy and the MCU.... The man's obsessed

@@underreppin *possessed

As soon as he said Exorcist I laughed and immediately checked the top comments and sure enough!

*coiffed

@@roflmatol Thank you for pointing that out to me ! It has now been fixed.

Tag line for GotG3

In the words of Harrison Ford to Mark Hamil in the Stars Wars "Trash Compactor Scene" when Mark Hamil was talking how his hair should be messed up and matted if they're in a trash compactor: Harrison Ford to Mark Hamil: "Hey kid, it ain't that kind of movie. If they're looking at your hair (the audience), then we've made a big mistake."

Should have been the flipping title

That's why I love him. Highly eloquent film critic with a deep, deep love of horror.

Lol, shot for shot, they're the same movie

Haha he had to fit it in somewhere

😁😁

Sometimes films can be made to be thought provoking, teach you something or get a message across. Sometimes they can be made to make you laugh or cry. Then sometimes they can be made purely to entertain, for fun and the thrill of excitement. All are equally valid and only the arrogant elitists think otherwise.

To be fair there are plenty of garbage non block busters too.

I found Mark’s review more detailed than some of the other so called fan reviews. Great stuff

@@jasewildheart Wasn't that the movie that made a billion dollars?

@@jasewildheart Oh, sure. People were saying that it would bomb because they were sad about what Brie said. Now that it made a billion dollars, they're backtracking. Their adorable little boycott didn't make any difference whatsoever.

These movies and the directors behind them are briliant at giving short lines that give you more understanding of the character than some more serious dramas do in 30 minutes, same goes for performances, Robert Downey Jr. shows he's entire emotional spectrum in a single scene, something he can not do in any other "serious" film like the Judge for example.

​@@4Everlast It's hard to take your assessment "siriously".

I saw the movie yesterday - this got the biggest laugh in the cinema 👍

YES!!!

Perfectly put and when my friends made fun of me tearing up and me freely admitting it, this was very similar in my justification. It made me feel. It's why I have dislike of musicals, I like to believe in the universe of every character in every film, (near) any genre and if it gets me then its done it's job. That's why I love cinema!!

@@fleason771 yo my g i was with you until you started dissing musicals

I like cheeseburgers

The rat was inevitable

SPOILERS!!!!! took 5 years

How else were they going to set up Rat-man and his franchise?

He said it was a long shot

maverickmak91 you saying he should?

@@bucwhovian8305 No. It's just very rare that a blockbuster earns its bumper runtime.

​@@bucwhovian8305 It is rare that he mentions a running time and not then say "It could lose half an hour".

Yes! I'm very surprised. He's usually very critical about the runtime for films like these.

actually he complained about the runtime of infinity war.

Awesome congrats n going tomorrow!

To be fair Kermode tears up reading the list of ingredients from a packet of crisps

Crippycooke don't get your hopes up

ragnare 🤣🤣🤣🤣im a marvel (more the comics then the films to be fair) fan but this made me crack up laughing , so had to make a rare comment and show you the kudos you deserve Sir. Well played.

Brace yourself, I cried 5 times

It's pretty average,

@@Raghy07 How is that even an insult? Anyway it is pretty mediocre. The previous Avengers was better in every way.

@@andy6576 Imagine getting that triggered over an OPINION. Avengers fan boys are funny.

@@ResevoirGod imagine thinking that hating on something popular makes you look cool. I'm more of a DC fan and I enjoyed it very much. Captain Marvel and Antman and the Wasp are average movies, Justice League is an average movie, this is excellent. On par with Infinity War, of course nothing tops Dark Knight

Didn't really like it. Didn't like the way they handled certain characters. Time travel messes things up. Saw infinity war multiple times. Wouldn't with this one

How anyone can watch Iron Man and not be curious enough to watch at least the first Avengers film is beyond me but each to their own :)

You really should watch the avengers, winter soldier, civil war and thor ragnorok, all very good movies.

@GiRayne Did you watch avengers infinity War, before you watched ... Endgame? otherwise it will not make much sense

Agreed.

Agree.

It felt 4 hours to me

It felt too long.

It felt like 3 hours of awesomeness to me.

Charlie Hancock literally about to comment the same thing 😅

Proving they have the stones...

I read this as soon as he said it.

I don't think he did! Haha!

Andre 3000

Bless! I loved it 3000 too ❤

ASV my heart 😭

Noooo!!! Now I'm crying again...

Okay, that hurt...

Funny how Robert Downey Jr had a similar arc to Stark. Got sacked from Ally McBeal for being a selfish drug addict, went on to turn his life around and revive his career with Iron Man. I love a story like that.

I concur :'(

Too soon

Hakeem why is that?

I support this message

Yes it was superb

Yes...

Nope... I’m game

thenoodleshop I heard they had one more for spider man far from home and that was it. Although in my personal opinion it feels poetic to end it here.

thenoodleshop They did film many cameos, but they chose to end it here, it's a fitting end to his cameos

@@avxx0035 I knew they'd filmed many cameos but didn't know they were ending it here. Makes perfect sense though, this is the big movie of all the previous movies. To go any longer would be dragging it out.

@thenoodleshop No, around I think Black Panther/Infinity War era Kevin Fiege said they filmed a bunch of cameos with Stan and Endgame was the last one that was filmed.

Actually, captain marvel was the last cameo filmed

Peter Galey If you’ve seen The Rutles, don’t bother with this as it’s just an exact scene for scene retread offering nothing new 😂

I'm not sure many people other than Mark Kermode would see the analogy between the MCU and The Rutles.

I wonder how many references to Star Trek there will be in Mike’s review of this

One more than Jay can handle. So at least one.

It broke new ground!!

@@r34dyplayerone91 It's about family.

Doctor Strange introduced the Multiverse

Doctor Strange already established the multi-verse...

The film itself is self aware enough at the ridiculousness of time travel to, rip on it at numerous points.

Time travel in the film IS using the multiverse.

best solution is keep them dead basic rule of storytelling if a characters dead they stay dead. not only that, but they didnt reverse time to stop thanos early(was originally the plan i know), they brought back all the other characters AFTER the finger snap, just making infinity war that much more inconsequential.

This has pretty much assured their place as pop culture legends.

It's very easy to pinpoint the movies that pushed the MCU forward and the ones that just created stagnation. Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Civil War, Thor Ragnarok, Infinity War, Endgame... Four of those were the Russo Brothers; I really don't think the MCU would be where it is now without them.

@@peterjoyfilms Let's not forget the first Iron Man and Black Panther.

This was a massive clusterfuck.

Takes me back...

Or hates one when he mentions Exorcist 2

Joseph Whittle haha true

Ashley Thomas Glass was amazing. It was a way better movie than Endgame. Glass is my favorite 2nd film of 2019 so far after Alita Battle Angel.

It ruined unbreakable which is one of my favourite films of the genre.

Danielle Walsh same

So true! I am still crying thinking about how beautifully done the very last scene was! ❤❤❤

He remains a classical style critic after the internet killed his industry, without being a snob. absolutely love his reviews

Whilst it's fair to say that most are being respectful, there are still arseholes out there spoiling it. Thankfully I saw a warning and avoided them. Not every saw the warning though, or were there before it. At least I've seen it now so I'm safe.

@outlines I stopped scrolling after seeing the warning, so I wouldn't know. I can't even tell you the channel/video as it wasn't one of my subbed ones, just a random, unrelated front page recommendation I clicked on. All I'd say is, be very careful until you've seen it. :-)

jimmiadja same here mate. To the point where I thought about how far I’ve come in the last 10 years in my own life. I was very happy with the conclusion.

Yeah, it certainly has nothing to do with the movie being 3 hours long.

Yeah there's just a lot to cover

It sucked.

Hahaha. You are wrong.

I liked it and it had some of the best moments in the MCU, I think it was a satisfying conclusion but for me the first Avengers movie was better overall.

The subtle steel hammering sound in homage to Iron Mans humble beginnings was all we needed!

I agree Endgame was a huge letdown.

Cival War is even better.

@@David-Field.Stuff01 I have seen that only briefly, and it wasn't technically an Avengers movie, though you could say it had more Avenger content than an Avengers movie. I don't know, I rather loved the difference (again, not seeing all of Civil War) that Infinity Wars had, because the ending was such an unexpected one, at least if you didn't know there was going to be a follow-up movie. I believe I knew there was going to be another movie, but the ending even surprised me, and it seemed like they overdid it at the time. But who knew you could use time to wish it away like a fairy wand? Endgame - so childish.

No No yup. RDJ is William Shatner!!!

@@abbaszaidi8371 Don't be so mean to RDJ

Sam Trotter dude, for old farts like me, the Shat is a God.

Rowan Crump nope. Which is why Mark liked it. This movie is the ending of all the previous films so there are no teasers for what comes next. It’s a final curtain call. So no need to sit throughout the credits.

@@rowanc88 yes,a sound of hammers

@Krystyon KR Martin, love your name and how it is spelled. Since I have said that "Infinity Wars" is my 35th favorite movie, I figure you should know all the movies that I think beat it. Every person's favorite movie is particular to them. To just put it out there without giving some information as to why is not right. My favorite movie is "The Scarlet Pimpernel" with Anthony Andrews. It is like a Batman character who feels real within a bloody time frame in France as they are using the guillotine to slay 17,000 men, women, and children of nobility to become a democratic state under Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre who would be known by only the first and last name or just the last name. Anthony Andrew is the richest man in England using a band of men to save lives in France. Feel free to watch the trailers for these movies and see if they interest you. My FAVORITE thirty-five (35) movies of all time. 1) The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) 2) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 3) The Prince who was a Thief (1951) 4) Narnia: the Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe (2005) 5) Let the Right One In (2008) - Swedish with English caption 6) A Silent Voice (2016) - Japanese with English caption 7) My Rainy Days (2009) - Japanese with English caption 8) X + Y [a Brilliant Young Mind] (2014) 9) Silence (2016) 10) Beauty and the Beast (2017) 11) Goodbye, Christopher Robin (2017) 12) The Man who Invented Christmas (2017) 13) The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) 14) Amen (2002) 15) Red (2010) 16) Fletch (1985) 17) Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) 18) Men In Black (1997) 19) Star Wars: the Empire Strikes Back (1980) 20) Star Wars: a New Hope (1977) 21) Back to the Future (1985) 22) X-Men (2000) 23) Mannequin (1987) 24) Life is Beautiful (1998) 25) Schindler's List (1993) 26) The Passion of the Christ (2004) - Aramaic with English caption 27) Interview with the Vampire (1994) 28) Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) - Spanish with English caption 29) Midway (2019) 30) Paprika (2006) 31) Johnny English (2003) 32) Cinema Paradiso (1989) - Italian with English caption, shorter version, not extended version 33) The Man who Killed Don Quixote (2017) 34) Aladdin (2019) 35) Avengers: Infinity Wars (2018)

It is a word usually misused.

It sucked.

It was a huge clusterfuck.