The Good, The Bad & The Hungry

The Good, The Bad & The Hungry is a superhero film directed by Joss Whedon and written by friend Danny Cunningham. It is an adaptation of the video game Lego Marvel Super Heroes as well as a spin-off of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Rated 12A for moderate violence and threat.

Plot:

Silver Surfer is knocked out of the sky by Doctor Doom, and his board shatters into several "Cosmic Bricks." Doom captures the powerless Surfer, hiring other villains to collect the bricks to make the "Doom Ray of Doom" to repel Galactus and rule the world. However, Nick Fury orders all superheroes to retrieve the bricks before Doom does. Abomination and Sandman ransom Grand Central Station for a Cosmic Brick. Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Hulk succeed in stopping them.

Captain America and Mister Fantastic head to the Baxter Building to examine a Cosmic Brick, only for Doctor Octopus to steal it. When the fight goes through the Daily Bugle, Spider-Man lends a hand. Ock is defeated at Times Square but tosses the Brick to Green Goblin, who takes it to Oscorp.

Fury sends Black Widow and Hawkeye to get it back, with Spider-Man joining them. They face off with Venom inside Oscorp's underground lab while the Goblin flees via helicopter.

The Raft, a maximum-security prison, is attacked by Abomination, Leader and Sabretooth. Iron Man, Hulk, and Wolverine intervene, but not before Red Skull is released. Magneto destroys Iron Man's suit and escapes with Mystique.

Tony goes with Captain America to Stark Tower for a new suit. Upon arriving, the duo is forced to use the House Party Protocol to stop an invasion courtesy of Mandarin, Loki, Aldrich Killian, and Extremis soldiers. Loki escapes with an arc reactor, while Fury contacts some outside help for an approaching threat.

Tracking its energy signature, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Human Torch infiltrate a HYDRA base beneath the Empire State Building and defeat Red Skull with the help of Captain America. Loki escapes via a portal to Asgard, while the portal itself is accidentally destroyed.

Captain America, Wolverine, and Human Torch meet Thor, who takes them to Asgard. Upon arriving at the Bifrost, they find Loki commanding the Frost Giants. Loki enhances his powers with the Tesseract, unleashing the Destroyer armor on the heroes. They disable the Destroyer while Loki escapes. Wolverine steals the Tesseract in hopes Professor X might unlock its secrets, accidentally drawing the Brotherhood of Mutants to the X-Mansion in search of it.

Jean Grey, Cyclops, Storm, Iceman, and Beast fend off Juggernaut, and the generic Acolytes. However, Magneto and Mystique escape with the Tesseract.

Fury and the Fantastic Four which includes Invisible Woman and the Thing head to Castle Doom, where Green Goblin is defeated while Loki and Doom escape with the bricks. However, they do rescue Silver Surfer.

Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Thor head to a sub, where they defeat M.O.D.O.K. Jean helps them back to land underwater.

Magneto uses the Statue of Liberty to attack Hulk, Mr. Fantastic, and Wolverine. The heroes enter its head and defeat Mastermind. Magneto tosses the head into the city and flees to the island where Asteroid M is.

Captain America, Thing, and Storm arrive and defeat Magneto's Acolytes along with Rhino and the Savage Land's Velociraptors. Magneto is revealed to be Mystique in disguise while the real one raises Asteroid M into space.

Doom and Loki arrive on Asteroid M and continue building the Doom Ray. Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Thor arrive and defeat Magneto, but Iron Man and Thor are incapacitated by Doctor Doom in the process.

Spider-Man goes on with Captain America, Thing, and Storm, and they defeat Doom. Loki then reveals he manipulated everyone to create a craft from the Cosmic Bricks, and powered by the Tesseract, for controlling Galactus to destroy Earth and Asgard. The heroes narrowly escape Asteroid M as Galactus destroys it before he heads towards New York.

The heroes (Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Hulk, Thor, Fury, Mr. Fantastic, Human Torch, Cyclops, and Storm) and villains ( Doom, Doc Ock, Green Goblin, Venom, Abomination, Magneto, and Mystique) team-up to defeat Galactus on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. Galactus and Loki are warped into a large portal that traps both of them in an unknown part of space while Thor shatters the mind-control craft with his hammer, and Fury retrieves the Tesseract. Galactus decides to eat Loki. The villains are given time to escape before they are pursued. With all the Cosmic Bricks collected and reassembled back into his board, Silver Surfer thanks the heroes and departs into deep space, promising to lead Galactus away from Earth.

In the mid-credits scene, Fury oversees the repair of the Statue of Liberty. He apologizes to the Guardians of the Galaxy (Star-Lord, Drax, Groot, Rocket Raccoon, and Gamora), whom he called for help during the attack. Star-Lord states that there is something else threatening Earth. While having lunch with the construction crew, Fury encounters Black Panther, who was looking for his cat Mr. Tiddles, and then tells Fury that the people of Wakanda thank him for leading the superheroes in thwarting the villains.

Cast:

Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man

Chris Evans as Captain America/Nomad

Mark Rufflalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk

Chris Hemsworth as Thor

Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow

Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye

Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury

Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson

Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill

Tom Holland as Spider-Man

Tom Hiddleston as Loki

Michael Fassbender as Silver Surfer

Jason Bateman as Mr. Fantastic

Alicia Vikander as Invisible Woman

Ryan Reynolds as Human Torch

Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Thing

Adam Driver as Doctor Doom

Tom Hardy as Wolverine

David Thewlis as Magneto

Zazie Beetz as Storm

Anne Hathaway as Jean Grey

Emma Watson as Mystique

Chris Pine as Beast

Ezra Miller as Cyclops

Ron Perlman as Galactus

Jon Hamm as Venom

Charlie Hunnam as Sabretooth

Alden Ehrenreich as Iceman

Joaquin Phoenix as M.O.D.O.K.

Tim Roth as Abomination

Stefan Kapicic as Sandman

Michael Shannon as Doctor Octopus

Tom Cruise as Green Goblin

Guy Pearce as Aldrich Killian

Ben Kingsley as Trevor Slattery

Ross Marquand as Red Skull

Bryan Cranston as Mastermind

Viggo Mortensen as Rhino

Tim Blake Nelson as Leader

Hafpor Julius Bjornsson as Juggernaut

Reception:

The Good, The Bad & The Hungry received positive reviews from critics and was a box office success.

Logos:

Disney / 20th Century Fox / Marvel Studios ( Variation ): the Disney logo gets cut off by the 20th Century Fox logo, which has the byline "A Division of the Walt Disney Company. The Marvel logo appears after the battle with Sandman and when the logo finishes, it cuts to the next scene.