Avengers Assemble!

[Gutsman Heavy]

I always knew you were crazy skywarp, but dayum.

[Hursticon]

Saw the movie last night; Absolutely expertly and excellently executed! - Joss Whedon deserves a bloody Oscar for this effort as he took several greatly larger than life characters and perfectly balanced their dialogue, story and screen-time to a tee - This is by far the definitive Marvel film, possibly the single best Super Hero flick too IMO.

[GoktimusPrime]

possibly the single best Super Hero flick too IMO.

The Dark Knight is still my favourite super hero movie IMHO. The Avengers is no where near as story-driven... but of course, with half a dozen protagonists comprising a cast ensemble, it's not really possible unless you only focus on one hero and develop that character at the expense of the others... which is what happened in X-Men 2 (focused on Wolverine's story).

As far as ensemble cast hero movies are concerned, I'd say the first X-Men was more story-driven (using Rogue and Wolverine as the main protagonists). But I can see what Whedon's tried to achieve with The Avengers and allow each of the characters to experience some form of journey; each of them coming to terms with personal issues to varying degrees. Naturally there's only so much you can do when trying to develop that many characters in a limited span of time... so in context of what the movie wanted to achieve, I thought it was rather well done. While the character development may have been rather rudimentary, importantly it worked well. Better to keep a story relatively simple and 'manageable' rather than try to wig it out too much and get things in a convoluted tangled mess... like Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon. The Avengers is a good example of the K.I.S.S. principle in action. If the next Transformers movie could be as good as The Avengers, then I'll be one extremely happy chappy.

[Gutsman Heavy]

Seems the American release has an additional post credits scene, nothing major, but very whedon-esc

[SkyWarp91]

Avengers would be proud of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uTsS...&feature=g-u-u

[Autocon]

Seems the American release has an additional post credits scene, nothing major, but very whedon-esc

which is???

[ITZTRU]

which is???

+1

[Gutsman Heavy]

The Avengers have shwarma for a post-battle lunch.

^ Highlight to read ^

[5FDP]

Saw it last Friday night and thought it was a good popcorn flick. Can't help feeling as though I've seen it somewhere before - bad guy goes to tall building in city and uses a device to open up a portal to bring through an army who then trashes said city

Stayed until the end in the hope of seeing the version with the extra scene. Thanks for posting it Goki.

[UltraMagnus]

I have seen it twice (3D on opening night and 2D) and have 2 more invites to go see it (which I will)
In my opinion this is the best CBM. There was a massive risk this could be a disaster and people were concerned Joss Wheldon was directing it. But from a fan of his (comics, not tv shows), I knew he could write a great script.

He has now wrote his own ticket with a $1b movie by end of next week. He almost guarantees to do Avengers 2, but i feel for him. The pressure to make it better is huge... lucky he has a stake of great stories to work with (Civil War, Infinity Gauntlet).

Personally one of the best popcorn flicks I have watched in the last decade.

Now the pressure is on Iron Man 3 to be huge again.