The Avengers

ATTN:  MOVIE SPOILERS INCLUDED

The Avengers

May 13, 2012

A perfect Mother’s Day movie if you are into super hero movies!

My Opinion:

4.5 out of 5 bags of popcorn for the overall movie

5 out of 5 boxes of milk duds for my own personal entertainment

My Suggestion:  See it in the theatre on the biggest, fanciest screen possible

The gist:  The evil Loki (Thor’s adopted brother) has threatened the world’s safety.  A band of super heroes including:  The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Black Widow and Hawkeye are brought together by the peace keeping agency SHIELD to fight to save the world from disaster.

My take:

This movie is all about the cast and they are phenomenal. I want to start off by talking about Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/The Incredible Hulk.  I was very unhappy with this casting choice initially; I just couldn’t see him in this role.  After he completely stole the first few scenes he was in, I changed my mind completely.  He was so believable as the nice, down to earth doctor who has a VERY dark side.  The other stand outs were Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man.  He is just perfect in this role and has perfected it with each new movie.  Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, they were all brilliant and beautiful!  I am loving Jeremy Renner’s new acting persona as an action star. 

I am not a huge comic book fan and aside from super hero movies I don’t really know much about this genera, but I could tell that the director and producers certainly did.  All the characters had ties to one another in some form and they were all touched on in the film.  My only complaint was that I wished I could have found out more about each characters back story, however, I realize then the film would have been 4 hours long and that just wouldn’t have worked. 

I think the most exciting plot line of the movie was waiting for Bruce Banner to lose control and turn into The Incredible Hulk.  Let me tell you, this scene did not disappoint.  When he changed my heart was pounding and as he turned to look at Black Widow I was actually scared.  That scene made the movie.

Another thing I liked was that as the movie unfolded all the super hero’s had their own way of doing things and by the final scenes I was excited for them to all come together to fight in the war as a team.  There is nothing better than dark, scary super hero’s working together to save the planet and showing their human sides by forming bonds with one another.   I highly recommend this movie.  It was SUPER entertaining!