Like watching an expensive spoof

Rating: 6/10 (27 April 2019)

This may the first movie where I loved maybe 98% of its scenes, but not the movie itself. A collection of great moments and even well-deserved fan-service does not mean a movie is good. Did I enjoy all the time-travel scenes and glorious interactions that led to? Yes! Do I still think time-travel of this scale is the worst idea in the MCU? Also yes.
Why? Because the MCU's timeline is chock-full of crucial events and great threats overcome at great expenses. This time-travel is supposed to be different from what is normally portrayed or believed, yet they barely spent any time to explain it. Our seasoned Avengers just quickly assume absolutely nothing could go wrong if they change things and just jump into it?
Also, those scenes while fun are the kind of scenes you expect to see in parodies or what-if scenario skits on talk-shows - not in the actual movie.
Thanos's quick initial death seems like the MCU trying to pull off a GoT by resorting to cheap shock-tactics. Unfit-Thor and the selfie-taking Professor Hulk are like good comedy bits I'd expect to see on Jimmy Kimmel or a HISHE parody video. Wasn't Cap dating Agent Carter's niece? When did he go back to pining for Peggy again? She moved on after Cap. There was a whole TV show about it. Talking of TV shows, I hear there is going to one with Peggy and Cap - I thought Evans wanted to stop playing Cap? How much of this story was decided by Disney's upcoming new streaming service? Finally, the whole time-travel arc obviously releases a whole another can-of-worms with questions and plot holes and inconsistencies etc. that I am not going to go into.
I feel like the movie sacrificed its pace and good story-telling for moments such as this - Marvel movies were increasingly beginning to show a tendency of trying too hard to be funny at the expense of any story-telling impact and this really went too far.
I wish the movie was different. I wish the time-jump was much shorter - maybe 6 months. That Thor was being the hero he is and helping people in the aftermath of the Decimation. That instead of altering (or something) all of the MCU timeline, they showed the whole world was falling apart after losing half of it and the Avengers were exhausted trying to patch things when they rollback time to 6 months ago and find a solution from there. I wish the movie ended happily with everyone intact. I wish I didn't leave the theatre feeling like I watched an expensive spoof.