One of Best of CGI Comic Book adventures

Rating: 7/10 (4 May 2012)

After some right duds in the comic franchises lately - eg the latest 'dark' duff knight rubbish and 'Iron Man2'- it is refreshing to see an adventure that keeps you entertained almost throughout. The film revolves around the character Loki partnering some vicious aliens to take over Earth - cue get a group of superheroes together who have starred in their own films to row and fall out, but finally come together to take on the enemy. The action moves along at a pace, the script has some witty moments (the best being the screen operator who turns on his 'Space Invaders' while the Earth is under attack!), Ms Paltrow provides some fleeting eye candy, the CGI is well handled and not too overbearing, and the acting appropriate, eg Samuel L Jackson and Scarlett Johannson (one note actors) provide the well tuned one note performances required of them. And The Hulk comes out well after two appalling films! Not having seen 'Captain America' and 'Thor' the so-called tessaract did not mean a lot more than the wonder cube does in any other film, eg Transformers, the Fifth Dimension (that dreadful camp Bruce Willis scifi movie). But it provides continuity for teen boys who swallow up every blockbusting comic-based film that comes out, and the movie dashes along to its inevitable conclusion - a huge fight in the middle of New York as the aliens pour out of a black hole!!!! OK but let's not get carried away as if 'Citizen Kane' is about to get a reboot with CGI!!!