Another Action Movie

Rating: 6/10 (2 November 2015)

When this movie first came out I was somewhat excited. I hadn't seen ratings like that very often (8.8 right off the bat), and I was fairly new to IMDb at the time too. Unfortunately, it really wasn't anything special.
The plot itself is pretty lackluster. It's just an average action movie in terms of story. Sure, there's nothing really wrong with that, but nevertheless it wasn't very well-done.
The characters are just the same as the plot: nothing special. Sure, we get lots of looks at how well they fight, as well as a little bit of arguing, but that's about it. The character development wasn't amazing in this movie. Sure, they had the other Marvel movies to develop the characters separately, but that's hardly an excuse not to put effort into this movie.
The action, which is the only thing The Avengers contains, is all just fine. Everyone's just extremely overpowered, human or not, to an unrealistic level. Overdone fights aren't really my thing, considering how commonly we see them.
Overall The Avengers is nothing special. Sure, it was risky for Joss Whedon to put all the Marvel characters into one universe, and he actually pulled it off, but giving points to this movie for that is like giving it points for it's creation. The character and plot were very average, and the action was rather un-amusing. The Avengers is heavily overrated in my opinion, and I personally wouldn't recommend it.