The first ten minutes and twenty two seconds of the ULTIMATE AVENGERS 2 direct-to-DVD animation are available here, a sort of Bebo-ish site. And guess what? It's even worse than the first one. Oh deary. In a way, it's a textbook in what was wrong with the first one. I could go into a rant here, but that'd be too much like hard work for a truly undeserving subject. Suffice to say, THE ULTIMATES was a comic where Marvel's flagship characters were reinvented as a blockbuster movie. The script was smart, funny and cynical, like Shane Black (even if I cringed every time writer Mark Millar included an action movie cliche like "lock and load" or "bring it on"). The spectacle was big and overblown, like ILM working overdrive for Tony Scott or Michael Bay to fulfill Joel Silver or Jerry Bruckheimer's every tasteless superhero fantasy. Artist Bryan Hitch even drew A-list stars into roles in the book, famously basing Nick Fury on Sam Jackson, but also giving the shape-changing alien villain, Herr Kleiser, the visage of Bobby Carlyle. The cartoon has none of these virtues. The script is dull, the direction dull, the voice cast dull. Just watch and shudder at the missed opportunities.