Great Movie, only improvement would have been a better villain

Rating: 9/10 (11 June 2012)

I wish there were 20 or 30 more of these movies! It's really fun to watch superheros interact, especially when their back stories are so well done via previous movies. Other reviewers are correct saying that these actors are choice to play these characters. My only complaint is that hey - the 'super' villain Loki was never really very threatening. He was always a sort of weakling in Thor, though interesting. In this movie his only trick is tapping a cane against your chest to control your mind, and being a ruthless jerk, I guess. Scary, practically speaking, but it's not an equal match to four or five movies worth of enemies that we already know the good guys can chew through individually. The bad guy aliens came through the hole in the sky at a rate of about 1 every 3 seconds, kind of trickled through. I'd say we didn't even need the Avengers to dispatch those flying motorcycles - the US Air Force could have handled this whole bunch pretty neatly, though NY would have suffered a bit more. So then why were the Avengers necessary? I dunno, it just seems like the big terrible event that had everyone so worried wasn't that bad. I want a really really scary threat, like the new spider man has to defeat, not some whiny loser like Loki.