Boring; Why the Hype?

Rating: 5/10 (2 August 2014)

Billed as a funny sort of superhero movie. Unfortunately, it's superhero elements are not nearly as good as a normal Marvel movie, and it's not much funnier than a normal Marvel movie. That leaves it in no- man's land.
It does have some funny moments, nearly all of which belong to Bautista or Bradley Cooper. In my opinion, though, the humor is trumped by the endlessssssss random scenes of things blowing up when you can't tell which side is which (and worse, you don't care). The humor also seemed about as frequent as a typical Iron Man flick -- that's not a bad thing, unless your movie depends on its humor to save it.
I won't give plot details, but there are layers and layers of bad guys, and you will never understand what motivates them. Even worse, you can't figure out what motivates the good guys, other than they have to be the good guys because a bunch of other people are the bad guys.
The dialog is worthy of a Hayden Christensen performance in a Star Wars film. Characters explaining what we can clearly see on screen (in a pitch black room "It's hard to see in here.")
There's a montage explanation of how they are going to save the world -- a time saving trick done a million times before, except here you only want them to save the world QUICKLY so the movie will end. There are completely flat and useless performances from Glenn Close and Benicio del Toro (they'll make money, but they cannot be proud). Their characters could have been played by anyone.
I will say that if you liked the Lego Movie, you MIGHT like this. I also thought the Lego Movie was over-hyped, but at least it was a movie like nothing that has been done before, so it was a visual spectacle. This is just clichéd dialog, a meaningless plot and characters you have no interest in.
The only theory I can develop for the disconnect between what I thought and all the reviews is that this is this decade's version of camp, understood as such only by college-age folks and younger. If so, it almost certainly will seem to any woman over 30 and any man over 40 as simply a bad film that's trying to get away with something (and apparently will succeed).