Hyped, yet solid.

Rating: 6/10 (22 August 2012)

The Avengers is exactly what I feared it would be, nothing more than a typical superhero action movie. In contrast to Nolan's Batman films, it feels weak and shell-less. Sure, there are radical action scenes and the film is in many ways true to the comics. However, it is not, what its recently and often alleged, a masterpiece. It is just like many previous films, hard-cooked popcorn action (surely inspired by Transformers effects) but not more than that. The lack of manusscript, depth, sound track, pace and sometimes actor-performance is no where near a masterpiece. The SFX, as i mentioned, are very well though.
Yet, a movie by comic-book-fans for comic-book-fans. Maybe that is its weakness or its only strength?