Ok. I know that the movie has been out for over a week here in the USA. I've waited to post this so that the spoiler police won't get nearly as mad when I say that Agent Coulson di--- lives happily ever after. Or that a certain purple intergalactic warlord with a mighty chin appears in the mid-credits scene. Seriously, though, I'm so glad that I chose to see the Avengers unspoiled. It made what is easily the best comic book movie ever made even more enjoyable. Now, before all of the Dark Knight fanboys out there get angry, TDK is not a comic book movie. It's a crime drama with comic characters. The Avengers is the first truly great movie that looks and feels like a living, breathing comic book, with grown men (and a woman) in spandex laying a beat-down on an alien race while keeping the sarcasm rolling. Joss Wheadon's ability to keep all of the egos and simmering dislike that each team member has for each other in lie is astounding. What truly makes the movie isn't the complete destruction of Cleveland disguised as New York, but the humanity of the characters. That, and it's amazing sense of humor. Nobody takes themselves too seriously, and Mark Ruffalo's Hulk gets the two biggest laughs of the whole movie. Marvel has truly done the impossible. They've made a movie so good that it (Hulk) smashed the record for all time best opening weekend. Bravo.
Five out of five stars.
