Extremely Forgettable, Vacuous, and Formulaic

Rating: 7/10 (4 May 2015)

*Spoilers
The Avengers return for a two and a half hour movie that runs in a circle and ends up right where it began. The Avengers have managed to track down the staff that Loki was given to defeat them in the first Avengers and are ready to celebrate. Before the celebration Stark was given a vision by a genetically enhanced woman who most fans already know is Scarlet Witch. This vision makes Stark believe he must create a powerful AI that will protect the world from danger. Anyone that watches the trailers already knows that he ends up creating the enemy for this movie, Ultron. Now the Avengers must come together to defeat this rather undefined and obviously inhuman villain. He of course must have a nefarious plot though right? Of course he does. He wants to save the world by destroying it. The ultimate villain cliché. The movie runs along the same plot as the first Avengers as they are faced with one villain that is not very threatening against a team of heroes and some of the Avengers end up fighting one another. The villain is so useless and bad in this movie that he helps create another Avenger and convinces two more people to join the Avengers on top of the one he creates. The Avengers fight an army of CGI robots that are easily destroyed until they are finally able to win the day. Everything is now back to exactly where it was before the movie began. Circle complete.
There are some moments in this movie in which character development is attempted, but every moment is pure torture. Someone's boring family, forced chemistry that is just not there, and characters letting themselves be manipulated by dream sequences they know were brought on by someone. They know they are being manipulated yet they act as if they aren't with exception of Captain America because his sequence was just dumb. Captain didn't even think twice about it because it had no relevance. The humor is funny at times and cringeworthy at others. It is a CGI fest throughout. You will forget this movie and watch the next one.