Avengers Assemble!

[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 ^

[morg176]

saw the movie today (just came back from it). SEEN IT, LOVED IT!

[morg176]

After seeing the Avenger's today, I think Joss Whedon should be the one making the next transformers movie, maybe he'd get it right

[GoktimusPrime]

This is what we missed at the end of the credits in the Australian version:
http://www.hypable.com/2012/05/04/wa...gets-his-wish/