Reviews Film / The Avengers 2012

Officially the Coolest Movie I've Ever Seen

Right there in the title. That's my review.

There is nothing- nothing- that's going to top the 2-and-a-half hours of pure awesome projected on the screen I just saw.

Usually with superhero movies, they leave something out that I would have liked to see; Iron Man uno was less about punching dudes in power armor, and more about Stark building the suit. The Incredible Hulk was more Bourne Supremacy than HULK SMASH! Thor was more about Thor learning humility than smashing shit with a lightning hammer.

But this? This has everything. The heroes fight each other, the heroes fight aliens, the Hulk kicks the god of mischief's ass, and there are giant flying whales tearing up New York. It's funny to a degree I thought impossible. It's drama doesn't feel ham-fisted or forced, and Loki is a awesome villain, simultaneously being both funny and scary at the same time, less Villain Decay and more Villain Upgrade.

GO. SEE. THIS. MOVIE.

It's twenty bucks well spent.

(If I seem a little disjointed, it because it's hard to get so many raw emotions onto paper at one time.)