Another Great Marvel Blockbuster

Rating: 9/10 (27 November 2013)

Action, humor, Loki being Loki, Chris Hemsworth took off his shirt for the ladies, and Kat Dennings has officially become my favorite female of the franchise (though I won't watch "Two Broke Girls"). There was a lot of "Star Wars" kinda stuff, but Asgard has usually been described as having technology and medicine beyond our own, so it wasn't hokey. The only thing that I felt was hokey was the after-credits epilogue with The Collector, and considering a high percentage of Marvel movie fans aren't comics readers, it didn't upset most people. For the first time in the new wave of Marvel films it seemed like a cheaply thrown together scene, like a fan-made Star Trek parody, but when you consider how freaking insane the idea of The Collector is in comic book form, this was about as "real" as they could make it. And I believe the director admitted it was a last-minute shoot to get that in before next year's "Guardians of the Galaxy", so while not being impressed, I was not surprised. Overall, highly recommended.