The preview after Captain America was underwhelming and now this trailer looks completely and utterly devoid of any life. Basically, it looks like a promo for a WWE wrestling match. I'll watch this - only out of curiosity.

I know Nolan has made logical/continuity errors in films but the part where ScarJo's hair broke a man's face made me laugh.

That was the review for the insanely awesome......



so yeah, take that review with a pinch of salt.

Link in case anyone thought i was plucking the review out of thin air: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/Pon...e/news/?a=17516

This post has been edited by kobe8byrant: Apr 12 2012, 07:55 PM

Just caught this this afternoon and I enjoyed it enough. It is exactly as what the trailers have sold to us - a lot of quick wit and action in between. But as with ALL of the Marvel films so far with the exception of Iron Man, the villain remains its weakest point. For the second film running, I find Loki a totally unremarkable villain - sure he sneers a lot and has that sinister smile but he pales in comparison with the brilliant Obadiah Stane.

The action sequences are rich and vivid and in many ways, they are exactly what you would have hoped for when you walk into a post-Transformers era summer blockbuster (not a slight against the film) and is only made richer by the quirky interactions among the characters from The Avengers. There are several moments of intense action that is punctuated by moments of laugh-out-loud hilarity that will tickle your funny bone and almost all of them involve The Hulk. Speaking of The Hulk, I have to say that while I was unconvinced of the casting of Ruffalo before this, I have to say that in my books, Ruffalo is Bruce Banner! Ruffalo portrays Banner with a reserved quiet confidence about him as opposed to Norton's version where you feel that Banner can almost double off as a CIA agent if he weren't a 'Stephen Hawking' beautiful mind. I feel that Whedon is the only director so far who has brought both Hulk and Banner to 'life' on the big screen.

I said before I watched the film that my main complain about the trailers and teasers was the fact that The Avengers has been made to look like a two and a half hour WWE wrestling programme and it has almost turned out to be exactly that. I am not sure how The Avengers 2 will play out but based on how The Avengers ended, we can only assume that it will be destruction on a larger scale and we know how Transformers fared when it followed that approach.

As a film on a whole, it still fares lower below Iron Man but without a shadow of a doubt, this film has the most entertainment value among all of the Marvel films so far. The Avengers get a 7/10.

PS: Perhaps I am the only one but I didn't want to put it in my review because I didn't want to be called a troll but the first forty minutes or so totally bored the shit out of me and I only started to care the moment Iron Man, Captain and Thor had their first encounter but yeah, there you go...

This post has been edited by kobe8byrant: Apr 28 2012, 03:58 PM

This review has put to words some of my thoughts in a more eloquent manner:

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movi...rujwyXojw5Cg5zM

Another person who didn't think it was the greatest comic book film ever made?

1) There hasn't been any other movies with this many heroes together?
2) Character development? They have had feature length Monday Night Raw episodes, oh sorry, Marvel films for character development prior to this match. In fact, the first hour of the film basically serves as an extended preview to the Wrestlemania main event.

I only realised it now that you've mentioned it.

Harsh on Avatar to be honest. It brought 3D to the fore as a means for serious storytelling. No Avatar, no Hugo.

Does the local version have the same features as featured in the US release i.e. the commentary and Disney Second Feature feature?