Review of The Avengers (2012) by Goodterling — 08 May 2012
Taken on its own, it's a great action movie with laugh-out-loud comedy and fine character beats. But you HAVE to factor in the "degree of difficulty" of what Joss Whedon has accomplished. By all rights this thing should have been a total mess.
All those heroes sharing one movie? Giving them all their proper character moments, action moments, individual plot arcs while simultaneously giving them proper interpersonal chemistry AND developing the Avengers organization WHILE progressing a movie plot.
Whedon pulled the sword from the stone and somehow makes it all work. Much as I love Nolan I have to admit he could not have done this. This took all of Whedon's career of creating great "family" dynamics show after show in his TV series.
It took real genius to pull off this movie, and the reviewers who can't see that should pack it in.
This review of The Avengers (2012) was written by Goodterling on 08 May 2012.
The Avengers has generally received very positive reviews.
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