Real good fun movie, the way fun movie should be

Rating: 8/10 (13 May 2012)

The Avengers is a fun movie, fun to watch with no feeling of shame for liking it. The plot itself might not be a masterpiece, but the characters are all very well written, some even better than in the movies that originally presented them, and good actors can do wonders with well written characters. The special effects are as good as we recently came to expect them and the pace is just perfect for the film, which is much to say for an action film that lasts more than two hours. I especially liked the performance of Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Hiddleston is also very impressive as the very evil Loki, but almost every one on screen does a good professional job, which has a lot to do with the way the roles were written. - I know I said it already, I simply think it deserves repeating. And just one last remark on whoever complains that the plot doesn't make any sense. If you accept super heroes, the rest comes with the territory, it's not less likely than any other comic based film I've seen. The only problem begins when the characters come out too "cartoonish" the acting doesn't have much to cling to, and the whole thing falls apart. It doesn't happen here.