Fanservice gone wrong

Rating: 5/10 (5 May 2018)

Half of this movie is really great, the other half is great fan service, but ultimately shouldn't have been in the movie.
This is mostly a movie about Thanos. It is also a movie about Thor, Dr Strange, Ironman, Spiderman and the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Then there are so many more characters in it that just steal screen time and drags the movie on and on, well past its expiration date. I know that not having those characters show up would have also been cause for concern, but adding them in this way really brings this movie down from possible greatness to mediocrity.
There are also a lot of other issues with this movie regarding the fluctuating power levels, the painfully bad spirit stone sacrifice monologue, the accomplishment of killing more protagonists than almost any other movie and doing so without either me or any of their own friends really caring, etc.
The biggest sin though is working up a world for ten years and ending up giving us a terrible X McGuffins coming together plot, and a villain that has an interesting idea about the world and the laziest worst, least thought through plan of enacting his vision. There are so many flaws with his half-population-solution I don't even know where to begin. It is so bad it isn't even villain of the week material on Netflix or the CW.
Light hearted comedy is what Marvel does well. This movie has too much of everything they do poorly. I was really entertained half of the time. It's not enough.