I have a piece of gear for every member of the Avengers.

Ooh, these Black Widow undergarments

are really constricting.

Computer generated characters and comic book movies

look better every year,

now if only they could get the voices right.

I explain what I mean on this week's episode

of Angry Nerd.

First, your comments.

Vincent writes what did you think of the Watchmen comic

to movie transition.

Vincent, I thought it didn't quite live up to to source

material but there were some great performances

and some brilliant sequences.

What did you think?

Let me know in the comments.

Alfred Wong writes what's your favorite Marvel robot?

Alfred, that's easy, Vision, no wait, no,

Nimrod, no, Jocasta, Dragon Man.

Ah, can't decide.

Let me know your picks in the comments.

I'll try to nail down mine.

Oh and thanks Alfred, your comment reminded me

that I need to write a poison pen letter.

Dear Marvel, the sentient psychopathic robot Ultron

is one of my favorite comic book baddies

and I love the actor James Spader

but you should be banished to the negative zone

for combining those two things.

The CG version of Ultron in the new Avengers movie

has a fatal flaw, he sounds exactly like James Spader.

Anyone who reads comics knows that Ultron is supposed

to sound like an evil automaton not like James Spader.

Hey, this sounds really cool,

by your command imperious leader,

get the humanoid,

get the intruder.

Okay okay, I'll stop now.

Psyche.

I mean, have you read the comics,

Ultron's speech balloons had jagged edges,

jagged edges.

Hoary hosts of Hoggoth.

How much more obvious could they make it?

And it's not just about the treatment of the voice

with vocoder effects, it's also about snagging

a name celebrity.

This casting decision is part of a larger, extremely

lame trend of casting a-list actors as animated characters.

You need a swaggering rooster on a farm?

Hey, let's get Mel Gibson.

Thank you ladies and gentlemen,

you've been a wonderful audience.

Wise-cracking shark?

Let's cast Will Smith.

Yeah, exactly how it looks, that's how it is.

Voiceover isn't the same as being in front of the camera.

Peter Dinklage, really an actor, but

his voiceover on Destiny puts me to sleep.

[Peter Dinklage] The Hive haven't been on earth

in centuries, that wizard came from the moon.

Ugh, if we aren't supporting full-time voice actors

how will we find and nurture the next Mel Blanc,

June Foray, Billy West or Cree Summer?

If you don't know who any of those people are

I hate you forever.

But I mostly hate celebs playing CGI roles

because I find it distracting

when a familiar voice comes out of a CG character's mouth.

It pulls me out of the story

and it makes me think about the actor.

The sight of Ultron in the latest Avenger's flick

fills me with glee

but the sound of him has me mentally ranking

Brat Packers in order of how successful

their career second acts have been.

Sheedy versus Ringwald?

Too close to call.

Now I could forgive Vin Diesel as Groot,

anyone who heard his brilliant work on Iron Giant

knows that he is a voice actor at heart

who just happened to branch out into meat space performing.

Bradley Cooper as Rocket Racoon, over the line

but I'll allow it.

Yeah.

Josh Brolin as Thanos, just wrong.

And James Spader-tron is the celeb voiceover

that broke the camel's back.

No strings on me.

Marvel, Robert California should not be Ultron.

Fix this now.

If you hurry there's still time

to get Frank Welker overdubbed.

(whistles)

Oh you're still here, huh?

Um, oh what was your favorite scene

in the original Avengers movie?

Let me know in the comments.

Mine was the shawarma scene.

I liked it because it wasn't setting up the next

installment of the franchise, and because

it was a blessed moment of downtime,

for the audience as well as the Avengers,

after an orgy of action and destruction.

See, one key appeal of super team comics

that the superhero movies have generally shortchanged,

is these moments of respite,

the Fantastic Four just hanging out in the Baxter Building

before the signal flare goes up,

or mutants chillaxing in the X-Mansion

before the sentinels spoil everything.

You get to see what these characters are like

when they aren't saving the world.

The Marvel movies excise that,

they're like the equivalent of a workplace TV series

where you only watch people work.

Avengers 2 could be even worse,

with too many characters, too many bad guys

and too much expensive mayhem.

Downtime is important.

Which reminds me, I'm going to take some downtime

for a while too, I need to dust my memorabilia

before I pack it up, I need to re-bag my comics

and devise some blistering new superpowerful

rants about Michael Bay.

Let me know what you think of Avengers 2 in the comments

and keep watching the classic old school Angry Nerd

episodes while I'm on hiatus.

Hey, you know what would be funny?

We should get some celebrity guests to

overdub my heartfelt farewell.

I'll just lip sync it.

And then you get Alec Baldwin to say my lines,

no wait, Jack Nicholson, get Jack Nicholson

that'd be even funnier.

Bastard's better not cheap out on me

like you did with my side-kick Gary.

Okay...