Enjoyable, but too much clutter

Rating: 6/10 (11 August 2015)

3 years after the original blockbuster, we rejoin our colorful heroes with new additions to the team roster as they group together to take down one of Tony Stark's robots that becomes self-aware and tries to destroy the world. Let's just get this out of the way, no, it's not as good as the first Avengers, there are a few too many story threads that are crow barred into the narrative solely for setting up future films. I understand it's necessary to have all this to set up Captain America: Civil War, Thor: Ragnarok and so on, but these sub plots detract from what should have just been an enjoyable, straight-forward evil robot becomes self-aware story. Having said that, James Spader is fantastic as Ultron, the action scenes are energetic and fun (The highlight is the Hulkbuster fight). A little too much going on, but it was still a very enjoyable blockbuster comic book movie.