Saw this on Sunday. It was pretty good. Better than the Thor or Captain America movies. Tom Hiddleston – Loki – was good. I think it was a good move to bring him back as the villain for The Avengers as he was one of the high points in the Thor movie. Mark Ruffalo – The Hulk – was a good replacement for Norton. Hope he comes back in the next stand alone Hulk movie when they do one. Scarlett Johansson & Jeremy Renner were useless and their characters seem like a joke when standing next to Ironman, Thor, Hulk, and Captain America. Oh you’ve got a pistol and he’s got some arrows? Really? The movie was quite long, but it is understandable given how much back story they have to revisit on each character to get people up to speed who may have not seen the stand alone films. I liked the “Point Break” joke. They did a good job keeping it cohesive as it could have easily been a mess with that many characters floating around. It also made me a little more interested in seeing the next installment of stand alones for each of these characters.
3.5 out of 5 for what it is.
P.S. Movie needed more Kat Dennings