Iron Man and Captain America: Heroes United

Heroes United should have been a tv series. If they had cut out all the pointless blather and friendly sparring, this would have been a solid half hour adventure. I'm not sure what they were going for with these movies but in classic Marvel style, they failed.

It's a good movie. Not something I'd watch over and over, but it was worth a watch, PLUS, LIAM O'BRIAN!!!!!! CR baby all the way.

Riding on the popularity of Robert Downey Jr's live action IRON MAN movies and this year's CAPTAIN America: THE WINTER SOLDIER, HEROES UNITED 2 sees Iron Man and Captain America caught up in H.Y.D.R.A's latest plot to steal advanced technology and learn the secrets of the super soldier serum coursing through Captain America's veins. Mind control, bickering heroes, secret antarctic bases and other clichés riddle the already boring story and flat characters. All this is set to the worst computer animation to ever soil a screen in the last 15 years.

In repeating the mistakes of its predecessor, HEROES UNITED 2 plays out like a 5 year old enacting a captain America story with his action figures. And just because he is so popular, Marvel goes and shoves Iron Man into the mix and allow him to steal the spotlight. But who cares? The characters are nothing like their live action counterparts or their comic book incarnations. They are uninteresting and borderline unlikable.

Tony Stark sounds like a pretentious teenager, more like Spiderman with all his wise cracking. His nasal voice and attempts at mimicking the more witty humour of his live action counterpart just fails. Captain America is that one dimensional boy scout with "generic hero voice" and a chest designed by Rob Liefeld; a huge disproportional chest that seems to change size throughout the movie.

That is least of the visuals' problems however. The cel shaded CGI is inconsistent and at times looks worse than 2003's Spiderman CGI series. Animation is jerky, stiff, looking like it was made in the late 90s right along side Reboot and Jimmy Neutron. There is little sense of weight to the CGI models, surfaces do not seem to connect (e.g. between a metal strap restraining captain America and the hero's chest or between laser shots and unfortunate victims), and many fight scenes look like they were done with stop motion puppets. Don't even get started on the embarrassingly bad human facial animations.

The whole show in a sentence: Two kids playing with their action figures on a boring Sunday morning. This is proof that Marvel's direct-to-video department is dead in the water. Zero effort at being even marginally entertaining, pit bottom production values, groan inducing dialogue. This here is a sequel to a dismal excuse for a CGI Direct to video movie that manages to one-up its predecessor in how horrible it is. IRON MAN AND CAPTAIN America: HEROES UNITED is 2014's scrap from the bottom of the barrel. Look up youtube and one will easily find Computer animation done by students with their off-the-shelf software that looks way better than this drivel from a so called "Multi Million dollar production company".

Iron Man & Captain America: Heroes United (2014) is a movie that I recently rewatched for the first time in a long time on Disney+. The storyline follows Captain America and Iron Man debating whose style and approach is better. Red Skull and Taskmaster join forces to steal weapons from Iron Man to help their new Hydra army conquer the world. Captain America and Iron Man will need to put their differences aside if they're going to save the human race.

This picture is directed by Leo Riley (Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United) and contains the voices of Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption), Fred Tatasciore (Team America), Roger Craig Smith(Suzume), Adrian Pasdar (Carlito's Way) and Liam O'Brien (JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time).

The animation for this is unique and some of it worked better for me than others. I could say the same about the voices that were selected to play the characters. This actually looked like video games at the time it was released. I did enjoy the animation during the opening credits and how the villains were voiced and portrayed. I also loved Hulk in this. However, Captain American and Iron Man's look and voices were better at times than others...and definitely a huge step down from Chris Evans and Downey Jr. The action scenes were pretty good and the final fight was entertaining. The storyline was worth following too.

Overall, this isn't as good as the DC animated pictures from this era, but it is still entertaining and worth a viewing. I would score this a 6/10 and recommend seeing it once.

Now Marvel has been making successful films on the big screen with The Avengers, Captain America and Iron-Man.

So you think they would make a great movie with Captain America and Iron-Man joining forces.

Well I'm afraid I've got some bad news this does not even give you anything redeeming about this direct to video animated movie. If Animated is what you call it.

Iron Man & Captain America: Heroes United has too many problems to even considering making it watchable.

I don't know where to begin but what I can tell you is that it is not worth owning in your collection.

The plot for the film is clearly design to be a cash in on the success of the two Avengers. Even with Red Skull as the main antagonist with Taskmaster at his side don't help the film at all.

The Animation and graphics in the film are simple awful it's hard to even call it computer animated when it feels like some kind of anime with boring artwork. I have seen video games with better designs than this one.

Also the voice acting is very boring it feels like the actors are being forced to give a performance and that puts into no effort what so ever so.

Perhaps the best thing about this film is that is not apart of the Marvel story line so passing on it will not limit your enjoyment of the other films from Marvel.

Iron Man & Captain America is a failed attempt to team up these two Marvel Legends.

If you want to see them work together watch The Avengers or the Avengers TV series.

I give Iron Man & Captain America: Heroes United an 3 out of 10