Spectacular but redundant and uninteresting

Rating: 6/10 (16 March 2020)

More of the same - following Thanos' elimination of half the life in the Universe, the remaining Avengers decide to go back in time (or to an alternative time path, this is not really clear) to yet again look for the Infinity Stones so they can try to reverse the malignant halving. Since the stones are scattered around the Universe, once again a number of sub-adventures ensue, then there is yet another huge battle in which everyone in the MCU gets at least a cameo (including Captain Marvel and Scarlet Witch, so everyone else could have just gone fishing). Since the plot includes time-travel/alternate realities and infinitely powerful wish-fulfilment anything can happen, so just watch, don't think. Smart Hulk and Fat Thor are a lot less interesting than their predecessors and one can't help but wonder why the least powerful (and least interesting) Avengers are sent into space rather than participate in the more mundane search in the past (or whatever) or could the filmmakers have found an actress who looked less like a Valkyrie from Teutonic myth than Tessa Thompson. While clearly a fan pleaser, I found the film overly-long, derivative, and generally uninteresting. Too bad, as I really liked 2018's 'Infinity War'.