Lot of potential. Only thing missing is a 1980s sitcom laugh track for the poor writing.

Rating: 6/10 (25 July 2018)

Writers, producers, and directors simply suck today. They mask their massive incompetence with a plethora of special effects. It is hard to ruin a movie filled with characters who all bring a massive, built-in audience. Yet they managed to do so.
They turned the Hulk into a joke. The Hulk!!! One of the most beloved and sympathetic characters in Marvel. I was waiting for the Hulk to have round two. It never came. Moreover, I don't understand how so soon after Thor's people are mass murdered right in front of him, he starts cracking jokes within minutes of being rescued by the GG. Why do writers today feel the need to turn dramatic scenes into a Friends sitcom? The only thing missing from this movie was a laugh track.
I fail to see the comedy in an all powerful being brutally mass murdering from credits to credits. This could have been a powerful and more dramatic film. Yet writers never fail to inject jokes at the most inappropriate times, which distracts from the movie. Thor cracking one-liners right after what was left of the Asgard race has been annihilated made absolutely no sense to me. Portraying the Hulk as Abbot and Costello throughout the entire film also makes no sense.
Another irksome thread in this film was the weakness of the Vision. Vision is as powerful as they come yet they basically made him a symbol for First Alert "I've fallen and I can't get up" from credits to credits. In the comic books Vision is no joke. In this film, he is the weakest Avenger of them all. In my opinion today's society prefers to portray women as powerful, and men as weak buffoons. I have no problem with a powerful woman. I do have a problem with the weakening of men in the process. Both can be and should be powerful.
Additionally, this movie is all over the place and never brings the Avengers together as one cohesive team. They are basically scattered across the cosmos each small group doing their own thing completely oblivious to what is going on with the other members.
Its similar to how they ruined the Transformers over time. How do you manage to ruin a franchise that has a built-in audience? Unlike most other movies the audience for the Avengers and the Transformers existed for years, if not decades before the movies were made. How do you blow it? Simple, try to squeeze three movies into one by jumping around all over the place. Also, toss in an abundance of jokes that only serve to ruin dramatic scenes because you think the audience needs to laugh every five minutes.
If all you care about is death, destruction, special effects, and jokes you will love this movie. I rank this ridiculous film up there with Freddy versus Jason. If you seek a thrilling story filled with heart ache, triumph, and characters that really draw you in, this movie sucks. I gave it some stars due to my love of Marvel.
I am glad I waited to rent this movie or I'd really be upset.