Brilliant movie!

Rating: 9/10 (1 May 2012)

Avengers is a splendid movie, and that's saying after having quite large expectations. True, I liked most of the recent super hero movie (except Iron Man 2 which was a bust) but Avengers excelled and outshine them all. I feared that putting all the super heroes together would make them cancel each other out, but instead it let them exploit their individual strengths. For example, Iron Man's sharp comments and one-liners are better and sharper than ever.
But above all, Avengers is an almost perfect mix of comedy and action. It says a lot when a movie running at 142 minutes never even feels long or have parts that loses tempo. Avengers is a non-stop action, without ever becoming repetitive, and spiced up with gems of humor, one-liners and jokes. Whedon should have a lot of credit for both writing and directing this with a good story but extreme care for the details. Such skill is rare and makes Avengers to an action movie masterpiece. To mention a few details I loved was Hulk's punch to Thor and Iron Man's nick Capsicle of Captain America. I only frowned when the chitauris spontaneously died when their mothership was blown up (felt too much SW 1 about it) as they were biological creatures, not robots. But that was a minor point, and the only I can recall.
The casting is great and all the actors and actresses do their parts very well. An honorable extra mention to Tom Hiddleston (surprised) that in my mind makes Loki perfect, Robert Downey Jr for his brilliant one-liners and Mark Ruffalo that perhaps plays the best Hulk ever.
I have to think back quite some time since I was so fully entertained by a movie. I hope sincerely there is a sequel (in the care of Whedon). There certainly is an opening for it.
9/10