Nice tour with feels and jokes

Rating: 8/10 (25 May 2019)

Avengers Endgame is a competent movie, which felt like the closing of a circle. It starts with the loss and how it's dealt with, and continues as a journey to past Marvel movies. It's fun as that, giving a nice glimpse to what happened after the end of the first Avengers movie, letting Thor meet his mother and Iron Man his father, and so on, all with the typical Marvel sense of homour. My son of course liked that Thor and his pals were playing Fortnite.
It doesn't have the desperation of Infinity War, which made it so strong for me, or even many other superhero movies where there's an enemy to be defeated. At this level, I feel that it's weaker than many previous movies. A lot of the movie shows off alternate versions of past movies or extensions of them, which, while somewhat boring plot-wise, is a treat for fans. I did enjoy all of it, but still, at this level the movie felt more like a homage to previous movies and a way to provide closure than a movie of it own.
I won't go into too much further detail, but I'll discuss one small part that felt off to me, because I felt it weakened the ending, and that was Captain Marvel. Even at the end of her own movie (which was pretty good), it was clear to me that she became so overpowered that'd she'd be hard to write into anything. Endgame proved it. She was kept out of the game for most of the movie (obviously because she's overpowered), then arrived at the end flying unharmed through a barrage of missiles and plowing through a spaceship. Then she took the Infinity Gauntlet from Spiderman.
And then things went south. Spiderman asked her how she'd get through the battlefield and then all the female heroes stopped the battle to pose and say they'd help her. Come on, this woman just flew through a starship like it wasn't there. She could probably destroy Thanos' entire army in a matter of minutes. And she needs help? And she loses to Thanos in a few seconds only to give Iron Man his chance to die? I think the writers would have done better to simply keep her out. A Deus Ex Machina is a bad plot device. One which fails for 'reasons' is even worse.