Dir. Joss Whedon (2012)
Rated PG-13 The Avengers... the first movie in the Marvel series where all the heroes that have been built up in their own movies are in one together. All is well in the world, until Loki starts being annoying as usual and starts some real other world conflict. The Avengers then band together, with the introduction of Black Widow (!!!) to fight Loki and his army from another planet (I can't really keep up with all the armies and alien people that come to attack from other planets under Loki's leadership. He does it so often, and I just watched the second Thor, where there's even more alien people, so I'm not even going to attempt to name them.) (Also, I don't really feel like writing a review for Thor: The Dark World because I didn't care for it and don't think its necessary to write an entire review on. But just know I watched it.) But there's some pretty freaky ones in this film, and they looked like they were really gonna destroy New York and also the world if the Avengers didn't band together. There was some pretty important character stuff going on in this movie, like conflict between Steve and Tony. They really didn't get along, so I get why the Civil War movie happens shortly. Unless that's not what I think it's about, then never mind. Admittedly, I didn't watch The Incredible Hulk or Iron Man 2 and 3 (check my review on Iron Man to get why I didn't), but I don't think that affected my viewing of Avengers. If there were any important plot changes or set ups in those movies, I didn't notice anything that I didn't understand in this one. I loved Black Widow. She was tough and strong and smart and had some cool character development. And in the first ten minutes of the movie she effectively got herself out of bondage from a chair, knocked out three guys while being tied up, and then hung one of them upside down. I don't like or dislike the SHIELD people, so whether or not they get more developed in movies to come doesn't matter much to me. I guess they do serve an important purpose to the entire series, though. This movie has converted me. I never thought I would be into the superhero movies, but this one did it. I got CHILLS watching this! SO GOOD! For some reason, I enjoy watching all of the heroes act together instead of in their own individual movies. I really get why people are so obsessed with this. I still don't have a favorite, but I'm leaning towards Thor or Captain America for now. The humor in this movie was a must for me, or I probably would not have liked it as much. The scene at the very end after the credits where they're all eating that weird food that Tony wanted to try made my life. And also taught me that I will watch till the end of the credits from now on. A+ on The Avengers.
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