Faster than a Catholic Rabbit

Rating: 10/10 (23 September 2015)

That's how fast Ultron multiplies himself, according to one character.
There is one thing to say about these Avengers and Avengers-Related films of late, they are stuffed full of "Transformers Dark of the Moon" style creatures and robots attacking large populations. Ie: Huge CGI Sequences showing the utter destruction of various cities, as if Tokyo is everywhere and can be rebuilt quickly.
But in this case, the story closely matches the Comic Books from whence it came. If you watch this without first watching the Iron Man films, the Thor Films, the Captain America films, and even Guardians of the Galaxy, you will be lost in a barren wasteland of references to something called "The Infinity Stones".
It is the one thread that connects all of these films, it was introduced in Captain America: The First Avenger, and it showed up in some form in Thor and Thor: The Dark World.
In fact, the one particular Infinity Stone gave Loki his power to brainwash Hawkeye and Dr Selvig. But we didn't know this in the first Avengers film.
The nature of this particular stone is what ultimately causes the creation of one of my favorite Avengers: The Vision. The Vision! I don't know if The Vision's creation follows the way it was done in the books, I never read the Ultron storyline. I suppose they had to change some aspects of it, like they did with the Extremis storyline in Iron Man 3- But even that is related.
I have never read any Marvel comic without having to buy several other titles just to follow a particular story, in was bankrupting me, I had to stop collecting. I'll have to find the Trade Paperback/Graphic Novel of this to compare the story elements.
But I think my disappointment is that people forget that these movies are extensions of those original Comics. They are filmed that way, to look like a comic book, and there is no other way to tell the stories. Every Avengers story eventually includes a huge battle over a city, a planet, in space, etc- This film has several large battle sequences even before the final climactic fight. They get sequentially more complex until the final one, it's not just a fight, there is a city floating in the sky, there are hundreds of Ultron Droids, and there are too many bullets flying around for even Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who plays the exact same kind of guy in Days of Future Past) to avoid. I was totally shocked by Elizabeth Olson, who I did not like much in "Godzilla", she totally got the Scarlet Witch, and she gave her to us. The way she is, what she can do, that's straight from the Comics. One worm can that was not toppled was that "The Twins" are in fact Magneto's Kids. They don't mention much about the part of Wanda's power that is due to causing freak accidents to happen, she is an "Improbability Engine" (It's on the back of one of my X-Men Trading Cards).
One thing that was great was a party on the Avengers NYC Mansion, which we saw at the end of the first Avengers film. But it was crashed by Dr Daniel Jackson of Stargate, oops, by Ultron! I recognized James Spader's voice almost immediately, because it sounded very much like that character from the Stargate movie and the TV shows. Ironically, the actor in the TV versions uses the exact same voice. It was genius casting, gave Ultron a lot of Depth.
What Else? Oh Yah, in the Comics, Hawkeye was married to another Avenger, I think who got killed off. That's one thing that's different with Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye.
But as I watch these Avengers flicks and the other related Marvel Universe films, it appears that not only are The Avengers being Assembled, but the entire Marvel Multiverse! From X-Men to Avengers, from Thor to Iron Man, these franchises are making mine Marvel just like the comic books did when I was younger.
Nuff Said? Nuff Said!