Pretty much as Good as The First

Rating: 8/10 (12 May 2015)

I'm not sure what all the whining is about. It's true the opening CGI scenes were pretty awful (like in almost stop-motion unrealistic), and I was like "Aw, Man!", but once past that it shaped up pretty nicely. I've also heard complaints about too much comedy and one liners--which there were quite a few, but frankly I thought they were pretty funny and not over done. The main thing the first Avengers had over this one is that the first was "surprisingly" good and the second is good but we've already had the surprisingly. It would have had to have been something really special to out-do the first. Considering what a disaster a lot of sequels are--we should be grateful. My only other complaint was that the CGI fight scenes suffered from Transformerization--where they apparently run the action really fast so they don't have to do a lot of really time consuming, realistic detail. Maybe they could just make them shorter, slower and more clear. Huh? Anyway I recommend it with 8 stars.