A spectacle of visual action, with surprising character developments

Rating: 6/10 (1 May 2015)

Unlike 90% of the US population, I did not expect much from this movie at all. Although I do like talking about comic books, I haven't seen many Marvel features (2, guardians and 1st avengers) before, and both of them did not entice me as much.
This film however was better than I thought it was going to be, I had heard people saying that it's going to be OK, so I just assumed that I was going to go be entertained for few scenes. I was wrong. I was entertained all the way. As with Avengers the action scenes in a large group flows together so well, and even with a larger cast in Avengers 2, the massive cast creates more harmony rather than chaos. There were some times, like hulk buster vs hulk, where the action was too close for my taste but it still worked for what it was trying to achieve.
Avenger 2 not only excels in the action scene, but does well in both the comedic and dramatic moment. While some action movies have dramatic scenes that are too boring or overly cliché, Avengers 2 has a nice dramatic scenes that does not go for the overly serious tone, but uses it to further it's character development as well as team development. Also the comedy works well, there are lot of comic reliefs between big action scenes but also during action scenes as well. The nice moment provides a break for the audience as well as provide few chuckles along the way.
The problem that I had with this movie is mostly on advertising, Beats by Dre, Gillette, Samsung, even though I know that most movie does that, the blatant use of advertising just took me out of the movie. That's just my pet peeve, but another problem that it had was that often it felt like it was a repetition of Avengers. While the middle part in the story has more background and character development that were not primarily featured on Avengers, the battle of wits and the last battle felt like they sort of overused the plot again. Those are my only problems though. The movie is a great entertainment for everybody, it's something that you should see it on the big screen, definitely worth the ticket price.