FreedomBliss's blog: "30-Day Movie Challenge"

Today's film was the Avengers and it's of course the first time I've watched it. Right off the bat let me tell you I'm am disappointed with almost every aspect of this film. It is just another action/superhero film. The film relies too much on the "cool" "epic" idea of the Avengers and doesn't bring anything special to the genre of the superhero film. It just makes the action bigger and the cgi greater. There is no in depth character, no real story, no twists, no turns, nothing but action. I know I'm being a little harsh because you not going to the Avengers looking for characters, I guess you leave that to Nolan and the Dark Knight.

Let me start out with what I liked. Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner works great. He is perfect for the role. I look forward to his own Hulk movie. That's it. Even with his great performance, there isn't much of it because there is so much else happening.

For the rest of the film, it's just average. The main problem with this film is that it is too much. There is too much exposition and explaining for a 2 hour 10 minute film. It is a hard task to get all these story lines meshed and I don't know why they just didn't make it two films. I'm sure after Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Captain America 2, a reboot of Hulk, and even the Nick Fury movie, there will be an Avengers 2. The could of easily set it up like the Hobbit and had it told over two films. That way you are not rushing into things and you can take your time and explain and dig deeper into the characters. I don't want to sound like a Batman fan boy but with Nolan's films, he digs into the characters and it gives the film a true sense about it as you can relate and connect with a superhero, one person who is fighting for you. With all these superheroes coming together, at no time was I cheering or even wanting them to win. The whole film is set up for the two actions sequences.

Built into the pace of the film is bits of comedy by mostly Stark and the Hulk. This breaks up the action with a quick one liner or action. To me, when films do this it's almost as if they don't feel strong about the film. They need comic relief to end a scene. If you have an amazing action sequence, it should be fine by itself. You don't need to throw one sentence of comedy to close the scene. It seems like they didn't feel comfortable with what they had and needed to try to add more than was required to try to spruce up the characters.

I could go on for days but I don't want to say too much since it's not out yet in the US. Let me just say that if you want to see an action film than this works. If you want a drama or even a story based film, than this will do nothing for you. It really doesn't matter what I say because people will see it no matter what but I really just want you to know what to expect, a decent action movie.

Positives: The little Mark Ruffalo

Negatives: The stupidity of the characters, the unrealistic approach to being a superhero, the "story," the lack of connection between characters and audience, the settling of problem solving and "luck" of solution, I could go on

Score 2/5

*Once again thanks for reading. Any suggestions or questions would be great. I may have a full review next week that really digs into everything else but it won't really matter by then because you will have all seen it.