Movie Review: Marvel's The Avengers

Synopsis: Marvel Studios presents Marvel's The Avengers-the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.

This was just one of those movies that when it was being made I thought there was never a chance it would live up to its hype, how could it? But the combination of a decent script, killer action sequences and great set pieces plus making the heroes seem so human, even comical at times, just totally raised the bar for me on superhero movies. Ironically, they're more than just comic book characters too, these characters have depth actually.

This is the rare big-budget Summer blockbuster that is just total nerd heaven. Stylish, epic, witty, exciting and involving... I had to check the clock to make sure 2 1/2 hours had actually passed. It felt like an hour.

What helps it along is the fact that most geeks already know the characters so well from their own movies, and also the people playing those characters are so settled in to their roles as they reprise them. Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans ARE Iron Man, Thor and Captain America already to me, and when they hit the screen I was fist-pumping and cheering already. Then they just mesh so well together. It's just a blast.

I waited so long to see this movie (waited on the Blu-Ray release, skipped the theatrical) that there's just not much left to say that hasn't been said already, just that put me in the camp of people praising director Joss Whedon for a work of comic book art. This is why I love movies, and why I grew up loving comic books.

9.5/10