This Film Delivers

Rating: 9/10 (5 February 2014)

I do not read comics. I've tried, but they just seem like watered-down versions of the shows I watched as a kid, like Batman TAS or Teen Titans.
But I love cinema. I've been keeping up with all the Marvel movies released prior to the Avengers and they were always teasing at an Avengers movie. And let me be the one millionth to say...
"OH MY GOD, THIS IS THE GREATEST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!"
And what a movie it is. It has comedy, it has action, character interactions, drama, EVERYTHING a movie needs. Not just a comic book film, ANY film. But, when you get down to it, Avengers is a comic book that has been cleanly and perfectly translated to the big screen.
But what sets Avengers apart from other movies is the mere fact that it WORKED. Every single character in this has been the leading man in their own movie (or has the potential to be) and yet the film focuses on them all. It's like if you got John Lennon, William Shatner, and George Peppard to be in a movie together with Vincent Price as the villain and the story managed to revolve around ALL of them.
The plot is unoriginal, but that's not what carries the movie. What carries the movie is the characters. Even the scenes with Thor, Cap, Iron Man and Nick Fury just TALKING are fun and engaging, and no scene drags or is too fast. And that's all this movie aims to be: an overload of fun.
Why are you still reading this? Go rent the movie and watch it, you fool!