umm...too much...much too much

Rating: 6/10 (2 May 2015)

Fans will hate me. Heck, I kind of hate myself...but very disappointed in this film. Oh, even my children will hate me. My seven year old said, "Just awesome...awesome..." when asked about this movie. And, to a seven year old, it is awesome. And truthfully, the movie doesn't fail on any particular point...but there is just too much. The movie is about Tony Stark making the world a safer place by making an automated defense system, which gains sentient life, and decides that the world would be better off without mankind or the avengers to muck with it. Boiled down, it is the monster from Frankenstein that turns on it's creator. Not a bad story. The problem I have is that there are 15 characters. Hulk, Banner (so different that they have to be listed separately), Iron Man, Cap, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Nick Fury, Prof. Jane, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, etc. The characters from the other movies that don't show up get mentioned. I heard about Pepper and Loki and etc etc. Look, we've been getting 2 hour movies based on each character. A two hour movie about Captain America, a two hour movie about Iron Man, a two hour movie about Thor....if you think you can shoehorn all these characters, and 5 times as many, into one movie and try to tell a decent story, you're wrong. With all those characters, we are reduced to watching fight scene after fight scene with quick cuts to each character, and in the end, you just felt lost. You can't watch a video about DDAY and watch every soldier...so you pick up with Tom Hanks and follow his crew up the beach. You can't see everything, so you have to focus on one small element in that frame, and you go with that. They had so much to throw at the screen, it was hard to keep it going, and hard to care.
So...I don't care. I found myself more interested in the popcorn. Oh, I think it's going to be a huge success, and I will look forward to seeing it on DVD where I can pause, rewind, and laugh (and lot's of good humor, though a couple of jokes are kind of adult in nature which is odd in a kids movie), and I will enjoy the heck out of the cd. But, honestly, I got lost in the movie, and exhausted trying to keep up with all the characters, and in the end, it just wasn't fun.
It would have been awesome if it had one solo hero going after ultron, and then just getting help from the rest of the avengers....wouldn't it?