I was getting pretty excited about this film the days leading up to its release. I've been following all the lead-up and previous films. I mean, it's a tremendous plan and very smart the way that Marvel has gone about building their universe. You can only imagine what they'd be doing if they still retained the film rights to all of their characters. It becomes slightly difficult to combine the reality-based world of Iron Man where regular people use machines to be super, and then something like Thor where it's something else entirely. That said, I think this worked and the tones blended together nicely. It's hard to juggle that many stories and characters, but Whedon does it and with grace and style. Each character works very very well and builds on what we've seen before. It's nice seeing Tony Stark comfortable with Pepper Potts, and cracking wise on the side. It's awesome to watch Captain America turn into an actual leader of his dysfunctional group. It could be that Hulk was my favorite of the whole bunch though. I loved Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, but I thought that the choices they made with Hulk were inspired. Lots of great stuff there (although his shift wasn't well explained...)
If I have a complaint it's that I felt like waaaay too much time was spent on that ship in the sky. I swear we spent well over half the film in that location and it made the film feel a bit small because of it. I don't envy the Marvel team as they go back to the stand-alone films to lead up to an Avengers sequel. Once you've put the bar so high, how do you do a stand-alone justice? And how do you explain why these guys (or some of them) aren't just always helping the others out?
Of all the solo films coming up, the one I'm hoping for most is a Hulk film starring Ruffalo. I'd line up for that one.
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