Fun to watch

Rating: 7/10 (27 December 2015)

I did like the idea of a movie that brought a bunch of familiar superheroes together, and to be fair they did a pretty good job of this.
Iron Man, Hawkeye, the Hulk, Thor, Loki, Captain America and Black Widow all get their fair share of screen time and they're all excellent. And there's some great moments of interaction. The fight between Thor and the Hulk was my personal favourite.
But unfortunately the story was second- rate: a bad guy brings an army to destroy the earth and the avengers can only stop him if they (wait for it)... work as a team.
Boring.
Worst of all, Loki was the bad guy. This is the 'trickster' of the Norse gods, a character who is just perfect for a complex, which-side-is-he-on storyline packed with plot twists, and instead they just make him head of an army of demons. It's a missed opportunity.
Avengers Assemble is plenty of fun to watch but it's not the great movie it might have been.