Assembled

Rating: 10/10 (4 May 2012)

WOW--just WOW!!! Superhero movies have come and gone and not too many are very well made. Hollywood eventually takes a good concept and then they add multiple villains or partners to the main hero and things do not work out. Was this going to happen with the Avengers? How would you get multiple heroes in one movie and tell a good story? What would Josh Whedon bring to the movie? Is this movie going to have the golden Whedon touch that was shown in Firefly or the horrible disaster known as Dollhouse? Let's start with the story: the script was well written about how the team was assembled and how they went from individuals to a team, the foe was well created and produced a nice adversary for the team, and the dialog was above the norm that you see in superhero movies.
Characters: whether you are a fan of the Hulk, Captain America, Thor or Iron Man--you will not be disappointed. Each of them have adequate screen time and all of them have wonderful action sequences. Though Black Widow and Hawkeye are not from the original Avengers team (they became Avengers much later), they fit into the movie well and add to the dimension that Loki brings to the story.
Everything is great about this movie. The film was well paced, the direction was great, the acting was super for a comic book adaptation and the action was out-of-this-world.
Easily one of the best, if not the best, superhero movie to date. Highly highly highly recommended. I would suggest 3D since there are many scenes that are dazzling in the 3D format.