Good but.....ehhhh.. still has flaws- End of superhero age?

Rating: 8/10 (29 May 2015)

Note I still gave this a 8/10. Why it doesn't live up to the hype it still a fun movie. This is not a bad film as it has a lot of strong moments in it, but there is still work to be done.
Joss Whedon is a god among men and knows characters well, but that doesn't translate when you have as many as this does and it is not a series. And that is just the issue here Whedon. If this was a TV show it be the best show ever, but it isn't so writing it like one makes it feel so cramped.
The story in this not to different from the first Avengers movie. It is still simplistic. Ultron wants to blow up the world, the Avengers try to stop him. That's all the audience ever really knows about this story. Same as how The Avengers wanted to fight Loki and defeat him.
As I said Joss Whedon needs to go back to TV. The character development was so packed in with this film. It is like you were trapped in a box you couldn't get out of. And while some moments were great between the characters not all of them were as fleshed out. The romance was stale and random, and didn't feel authentic. It just became a plot device
That being said the character development is were the movie shines. I came out this movie liking every Avenger. Thor, Black Widow, Hulk, Captian America, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch,and Quicksilver all were developed to the point were you could love each and every one of them. Compare that to the last Avenger movie were Iron Man and the Hulk took all the glory and came out being the only ones we cared about.
Sadly we all have to look at the box office and reception this movie got and as a nerd realize this may be the end of another superhero age or the beginning of it. Marvel has failed the non comic book readers and made them feel alienated. It has a cinematic universe idea which at first was brilliant has instead begun to fall and that hurts. I want people to love comic book movies and I would love it even more if these comic book movies could help people wanna go out a read a comic book, but this seems like a movement to a dark age. If Marvel doesn't change, ad if Kevin Feige doesn't make a decision to find a balance between the lightheartedness and the darker scenes we will see a day when the comic book era would have to be rebooted again.