I jumped on the bandwagon and saw The Avengers in 3D on Sunday night. Not certain if it was just me or not, but it felt like someone raped my eye sockets for 15 minutes a piece afterward. The movie itself was very good and well done surprisingly. The cast is top-to-bottom just excellent. Any movie where Stellan Skaarsgard, I don't know how to do the cool thing over the A in his name, but that's a damn good film. The premise is that Thor's mischievous Demigod brother Loki takes the Tesseract, a glowing square of power to provide earth with limitless free/clean energy. Loki plans on letting space people help him conquer earth, then rule us with an iron fist. Loki has some powers, like being able to enslave people with a touch of some weird wand, but he doesn't use it very often, which doesn't make much sense. He breaks into S.H.I.E.L.D, steals it, enslaves Skaarsgard and Renner (Hawkeye) and moves on to building a portal for his army. The heroes slowly trickle in and piss each other off, then Thor joins the party and gets into it with Iron Man, which is awesome. They imprison Loki and then shit gets crazy. It's super entertaining, with really only a few minutes where things are boring. The last hour is pretty much balls-out action. Robert Downey Jr. is his standard awesome Tony Stark keeping the bullshit and corny stuff to a minimum. Ruffalo is awesome as Bruce Banner/ The Hulk. Scarlett Johanson looks amazing in tight clothing, it's got just about everything. It avoids being too corny and over-done.
Bottom Line: 8.7 out of 10. It's really a solid film that's absolutely worth seeing in theaters to kick-off the summer movie season.
Side note: I bought a "passport" from Marcus Theaters for $300 allowing me unlimited movies for a year, so I'm pretty pumped and may be seeing this again in 2D just because.
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