From time to time you really don't want to have to think.

Rating: 8/10 (11 May 2015)

It promises to be a live-action comic book and it delivers in spades. The production values and special effects are out of this world.
Like a comic book though, it has a simple plot line and produces essentially zero emotional involvement. Thor is annoying and Scarlett Johansson is as flat as ever--being "eye candy" pays her bills. Also, even granting the comic book nature of this film, Samuel Jackson was clearly just picking up a paycheck, since I've never seem him so lifeless and unconvincing.
This movie is pure sugar with no redeeming nutritional value, but as a guilty pleasure it succeeds well, although too much of this stuff would personally make me nauseous.