English Smith (English47)

May bump up to 4.5 but I'm not ready to put this ahead of the dark knight or begins for best superhero films of all time in my book...

The Avengers is an awesome blockbuster movie and the hype, built around the entire plan, actually helps. It's pretty much an action oriented film that includes all avengers equally with no one being truly the main character (which makes the movie's success that much more admirable).

There's no real subplots in this flick - it gets right to the point. The CGI and city-disaster bad guy v. good guy action could remind you of a Michael Bay flick, but The Avengers does everything so much better.

The acting seems at certain parts (mainly in the later parts of the film) natural and realistic, but for a good part (any scene with Jake Miller aka "Jared") the acting is horrid.

This film didn't have much to say about anything and didn't bring about any emotions although there were some strong visual images that reminded me of my childhood. Other than that is was a painless film to watch. Nothing special and nothing great.