A messy yet marvelous movie with its own ways of entertaining

Rating: 9/10 (19 May 2015)

The Avengers in 2012 was a huge success. Not only did it entertain people all around the world by putting all its greatest heroes together, but it also pushed the Marvel Cinematic Universe onto the throne of one of the greatest movie series and one of the greatest ways of selling movies yet (Also Joss Whedon became more famous than ever, as a result of the movie). Of course, the movie's sequel, Avengers: Age of Ultron, is highly anticipated (DC fanboys who hate Marvel's guts are not included). But, is it better than the first one?
Avengers: Age of Ultron continued the "Marvel style" with many surprises and laughters (Not as much as Guardians of the Galaxy though), also tons of easter eggs. Joss Whedon did an amazing job keeping the actions "fresh"; they were packed with extremely nerdy yet awesome and funny sequences throughout. The movie also smoothly inserted many easter eggs that are relevant to the Marvel Universe, they also made connections to Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the clues of the Infinity Stones, appearance of Thanos, cameo of Stan Lee, also the appearance of the name "Jocasta" (Who is Ultron's wife in the comics).
The movie was messy, because it has way too many characters, but it did a rather good job putting the characters all together, also giving the audiences more background stories of characters who do not have their own movies. While the first Avengers, in my opinion, did a horrible job pacing the story, the second one did a better job making a story that actually "feels complete" and more satisfactory.
The movie successfully depicted each Avenger more in depth, showing their individual fear through Scarlet Witch's illusions while the Avengers still remain their coolness Iron Man is still the one who always talks, Cap is still the encouraging one, Hulk is still the shocking one who did something just like SMASHING LOKI from the first Avengers movie. Surprisingly, Thor became a more funny and adorable character. As said before, we get to see more background stories for Hawkeye and Black Widow. The Maximoffs and Vision gave the audiences more of an eye-popping experience throughout the film.
As an antagonist, Ultron worths the price. Created by Industrial Light & Magic and voiced by James Spader, this menacing mechanical villain mastermind makes himself as lovely as Loki. Filled with philosophical yet funny phrases, Ultron threatens to destroy humanity with thousands of himself. Industrial Light & Magic did an amazing job making Ultron's appearance scary and threatening while James Spader's voice makes the character even more ghastly. Although the appearance of Ultron is scary enough, it turns out that he is also a very cute robot with his own ways of doing things, his attractive arrogance and his crazy thoughts.
Unfortunately, Age of Ultron was not as shocking as the first one, the movie could not give us the feelings we had when we first saw the Avengers assembling anymore, but it had many improvements on both the story and the pacing. So I wouldn't say it's necessarily better or worse than the first one.
Overall, Avengers: Age of Ultron is a marvelous movie with its own ways of entertaining. While impressed by the movie itself, I was also very happy to see that Marvel succeeded, not only because Marvel itself had hard works, but also because of all the supports and love from all the Marvel fans throughout the world, and that is what makes Marvel special, that is what makes Marvel marvelous.