Pretty Cool Superheroes Movie for Marvel Standard

Rating: 7/10 (11 May 2012)

Marvel's The Avengers is a movie like nothing else, it's a movie that play a role as the finale from 5 different movies: Iron Man (2008), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and Thor (2011). It's a movie where you can see some of the finest, and most popular superheroes of American comic packed together in action-heavy sequences for more than 2 hours.
But, just like the other Marvel Studio's movies, The Avengers is simply a sci-fi action that purpose only to entertain the watchers with its flashy special effect and outrageous action.
Joss Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) did a good job directing this movie, every superhero get the same amount of role and enough background story (although it might not necessary since 4 of 'em have their own movie) so no one feel left behind. The story is pretty standard with Thor brother, Loki try to rule the earth by borrowing Chitauri's Army which he'll bring to earth using the power of Tesseract, hidden in earth. The Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury decide to run the Avengers Initiative to collect the earth's mightiest soldiers including Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, and Black Widow to fight against the global threat. Of course, Thor join the force later because, you know, he have responsibility for his naughty little brother.
Most of the movie contain heavy action sequences but one thing that i really like is the filmmaker try to show us that collecting these superheroes and force them to fight together is not always gonna work right. They are, however, just humans with their own personality and ego. The problem is, when they finally settle their problems, nothing more interesting happens in the movie. I like action movie but maybe because there's too many superheroes movie out there and every one of 'em always using heavy special effects (to destroy a major city of USA), the action become bland and sometimes boring. There's no jaw-dropping moments, no tense, no thrill, it's just the same 'America getting' attack by the alien again' movie.
Robert Downy Jr. of course steal most of the attention here (he's the freakin' Tony Stark!). Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner also act remarkably. The rest of the cast is pretty standard, yep, including the badass Academy Awward winner, Samuel L. Jackson. Tom Hiddleton as Loki is good but seriously, why the writers decide to make Loki look very, very weak? he's far from threatening, he can be easily defeated, he's the main bad guy but he post no serious threat to the Avengers (he even become part of the joke in many sequence).
It's hard not to compare Marvel's The Avengers with another big superhero movie coming out this year, The Dark Knight Rises but looking at how The Avengers come out, i have no doubt that Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises will kick The Avengers ass.