The Avengers

The first...I don't know...twenty minutes of this movie shat me, because it felt like they'd hired a teenage boy to write the movie. Robin from How I Met Your Mother was shooting at an invincible alien inside a secret base slowly imploding because of some kind of energy cube. I just didn't give a shit and to be honest I felt like such an old man shuffling in my seat and wondering how movies have become this silly. Also at this point they assume you've seen the five movies (or how ever many there are) which set up this one. So I was like who is this scientist guy, who is this alien with a sceptre? What is this blue cube and why is it such a big deal to the characters? Why is Samuel L. Jackson wearing an eyepatch? What is this secret base for and who are the people working here? What is Robin from How I Met Your Mother doing in this movie? I was very bored.

However.

HOWEVER!!!!!

As soon as the title popped up the movie became awesome. Why? Because Hulk/Captain America/Iron Man/Scarlett Johanssen's hotness, that's why. Also the longhaired guy with the hammer. The screenplay rocks as well. I don't know much about the guy who wrote it, just some unknown called Joss Whedon, no one spectacular. You've probably never heard of him, he doesn't have many popular TV shows or films to his name. But whoever this nobody is he's managed to make a movie full of superheroes where each one gets an equal share of the screen time. No one is underused, no one is overshadowed by anyone else. Everyone plays a big part and everyone gets to be awesome in their own unique way.

One thing I find weird though is the bad guy. He just wasn't evil. I don't care what you say about how much of a villain he is, he just isn't bad enough. He's misguided at best and here's why:
a) He only manages to kill like one person. He tries to kill others but always fails. I get that this is a family friendly kind of movie but this guy seemed almost reluctant to kill people.
b) The only person I can think of who he does manage to kill was in self defence anyway because the guy was pointing some sort of gun at him.
c) He's just too likeable. He has a lot of funny moments and he's often hilariously incompetent at doing evil things. He's cute. If anything.

But overall this movie rocks and the last half and hour or so are pure awesome. This movie also made me like Captain America and Thor. Now I want a hammer and shield like those guys have. Seriously, who needs anything else when you have a goddam hammer!

Finally, I should probably praise Mark Ruffalo on being the best Hulk out of all the people who have so far played the Hulk. He brought a kind of rehearsed serenity to the role of Bruce Bana, which you would expect of someone desperately trying to stop themselves from changing into a giant angry beast. Top performance.

Top movie.