Boring

Rating: 5/10 (23 August 2012)

I have to admit, I am no comic book reader, but I have enjoyed a number of acceptable comic book movie adaptations (500, the first two Xmen, Spiderman, the first Iron Man).
This is not one of them. The story is boring and flimsy - Loki wants to subvert earth (why?) using a light cube called Tesseract created by earth scientists. (what is this- no explanation). The avengers who we mostly know from previous movies are assembled, but there is no character development or any interaction and - apart from some smart lines from Iron Man - no meaningful dialog.
The heroes first beat each other up, then they make peace, then they beat up bland Loki and his alien invaders - that's the story. Not really fascinating, is it?
The movies effects are OK, somewhat artificial in places, but not overwhelming. E.g. avatar was worlds above this.
To summarize: Boring story, bad dialog, mediocre effects - this is a predictable popcorn movie, unless you are a big Marvel fan, you can skip it.