... but this... does put a smile on my face!

Rating: 7/10 (8 May 2018)

First of all: I found A:IW to be entertaining. It's worth the watch let alone for the comedy and the fight scenes.
Now the bad: it tries to be a lot of things at once: a comedy, a drama and an apocalyptic action movie - and it fails to properly deliver any one of those. It achieves to be a comedy in parts, especially the Guardians' scenes are VERY funny (at least if you like their WTF-humour).
The dramatic part, unfortunately, falls flat. Thanos has a lot of potential to be a tragic character, but his background story, motivation and character traits are given barely a handful of scenes. I think 'generic' is not the correct word for him, but he's also definitely not a deep character.
The action is ok, actually very much the stuff you would expect. Apocalyptic or epic atmosphere is missing - people on earth simply don't seem to care a lot about Thanos' invasion. Also, the fights of Avengers and their allies versus Thanos' forces takes place on a very small scale - you will see what I mean.
Personally, I also didn't like the joking around and the 'cool' attitude of the heroes in the face of universal extinction, it just was another atmosphere killer to me. It should have been either all comedy or all serious.
Oh and I loved the ending! So calm and peaceful, yet so significant and brutally uncompromising. I hope they don't just revert it in the sequel (and it's aaaaall marshmallows again) :-/
That might sound very harsh, but the bottom line is: A:IW is an entertaining action spectacle. 7 stars: 2 for the action, 2 for the jokes, 2 for the villain with potential, 2 for the artistic ending, 1 for the timetravel-multiple-realities-story, -1 for the nonexistent epicness and -1 for the story arc with the dwarf (completely wasted screentime).