After watching the first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, one thought kept running through my head: this doesn’t feel like an Avengers movie anymore.
Maybe the timing is unfair. Maybe it’s because we’ve just gotten Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part 3 trailer. Those movies look like they’re firing on every creative cylinder, with filmmakers at the top of their craft making blockbusters that feel massive, tactile, and cinematic. Then Avengers: Doomsday arrives, and despite costing an absurd amount of money, it somehow feels…small.
It’s not small in terms of scale. There are superheroes everywhere. Explosions. Giant CGI environments. The Fantastic Four. Wakandans. Thunderbolts. X-Men. Thor. Shang-Chi. Ant-Man. It has all the ingredients of an enormous crossover.
But it never actually feels enormous.
The biggest issue for me is that almost every shot looks like actors standing on a soundstage surrounded by green screens. Whether it’s characters talking in Wakanda or the heroes assembling together, everything has that unmistakable “digital volume” look. You never get the sense that these people are occupying real spaces.
And after seeing footage from movies that are clearly embracing practical filmmaking and real locations, it’s impossible not to notice.
Then there’s the cast itself.
Marvel clearly expects audiences to cheer simply because all these characters are sharing the screen. Ten years ago, that probably would’ve worked. Today, it feels strangely hollow.
Take Shang-Chi. I liked his movie well enough, but I haven’t really seen him in years. Now he’s suddenly standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Thor, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Ant-Man, and everyone else, and I’m supposed to feel like this is the culmination of something?
It isn’t.
The original Avengers earned its team-up because the roster was small and we’d spent years getting to know those characters. Infinity War and Endgame worked because they paid off a decade of storytelling. Doomsday feels like it’s trying to recreate that same feeling without putting in the same groundwork.
More characters don’t automatically create bigger emotions.
If anything, this trailer proves the opposite.
Even Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom isn’t enough to sell me.
On paper, it’s an inspired casting choice. In practice, it currently feels more like Marvel reaching back into its bag of nostalgia than introducing the next great villain. Doom hasn’t had the kind of presence in the MCU that Thanos had before becoming the central threat, so everything feels oddly rushed.
The same goes for all the legacy characters and surprise appearances. At some point, nostalgia stops being exciting and starts feeling like a substitute for storytelling.
There are moments that work. Cyclops finally looks like Cyclops, which is genuinely cool to see. Thor seems to have taken on the emotional center of the trailer, and Chris Hemsworth continues to be one of the MCU’s most reliable screen presences.
But isolated moments aren’t enough to convince me that this is the next great Avengers movie.
What surprised me most wasn’t that I disliked the trailer.
It’s that I barely felt anything.
An Avengers trailer used to feel like an event. Every reveal mattered. Every interaction felt earned. Today, Marvel seems to believe that simply putting twenty recognizable characters in the same room is enough to recreate that magic.
It isn’t.
Maybe the finished film will prove me wrong. I genuinely hope it does, because I want these movies to be great again. I miss when the MCU felt like it was leading blockbuster filmmaking instead of chasing its own past.
Right now, though, Avengers: Doomsday doesn’t look like the next cinematic event.
It looks like another expensive product assembled by a franchise that’s forgotten what made people fall in love with it in the first place.
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