"Some assembly required"

Rating: 5/10 (6 May 2012)

The Incredible Hulk was a really fun movie. It really never captured the real incense of the Hulk, and focused to much of the character of Bruce than the character of Hulk, but it was still a fun film. My second to least favorite. 7/10.
Thor was my least favorite, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It had good humor, surprisingly good action, but was executed in a really cheesy way. The atmosphere was too open and never really entertained and moved like the others did. 6/10.
Captain America was a good addition. It had a really great pulpy feel to it, while the others mainly focuses on modernized aspects. But the ending lost it's steam (and added itself to my list of worst endings ever in cinematic history.) 8/10.
Iron Man was/still is one of favorite superhero movies of all time. The plot was great, the character of Tony was brilliantly hilarious, and the overall tone was exhilarating. 9/10.
So my overall expectations were very high. I kept reading positive critic review after positive critic review, and people praised the film as one of (if not the) BEST superhero movie ever, even surpassing that of Nolan's Batman trilogy. So, as any excited person would, woke up early, took a speedy shower, and jumped into my clothes. I bought IMAX 3D tickets, sat down, and started getting jittery of my excitement. Thoughts went through me. "AMAZING!" "BEST SUPERHERO MOVIE EVER!" I couldn't wait to see these transform and lie before me. This was going to be the best cinematic experience of all-time. Bad thoughts didn't even enter my mind, they weren't even present at the back of my head. This was it... The lights dimmed, the theater went quiet, the Marvel logo flashed onto the screen. This was IT... Now after all that big, gigantic build-up, you would expect nothing but good things. But you're wrong...
I didn't like it. It's simple as that. The strange thing is, people around me found it fantastic, like it was a modern masterpiece. I found it to be extremely entertaining but that doesn't make up for: the bad dialogue. I found the Dark Knight to be more humorous than this. The jokes were hit-and-miss, only a few scenes leaving a grin upon my face. But the rest were so cheesy and so over-the-top that I cringed in horror.. The atmosphere. I found nothing in this movie. It was surely style over substance. So half the film is taken place inside an aircraft, and all the action-packed spectacle takes place in the last thirty minutes, but before that? It was boring! I mean it. And I thought this was build-up to an epic showdown that would redeem the entire film! Boy, was I wrong. It was cheesy dialogue scene to yet another cheesy dialogue scene. It wasn't even trying that best. And I found the entire film kind of anti-climatic. The villain Loki was so badly cast (and I don't mean the actor) that I found no tension between the characters and him. All the action was all-together forty-five minutes, that making the rest of the hour joke after joke, that never succeeds at being funny. And back to the atmosphere.. It was so clunky, so goofy, so off-the- wall. It had no tension between the villain and the Avengers, the cheesy one-liners were cringe-worthy, and the final payoff left a bad taste in my mouth. I predicted that the Avengers wouldn't find themselves in a dilemma and I was right. They killed a few robot characters and they won: how could I have not seen this? And robot.. that sounds quite familiar? The whole Manhattan showdown that takes place at the end (the only excitement the film consumes) was so reminiscent of the Transformers saga. And robots are so contrived that the whole scene still came off a little goofy...
I'm really sad that I didn't enjoy this, but the final, "big" payoff wasn't anything new or special. The strangest thing of all this is that people found this to be a masterpiece. The film is placed in the top 250, which it only deserves a high six or low seven. But if you enjoy Michael Bay films, this is your piece of pie, although it is messily put together...
5/10.