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AVENGERS: Grade, Reviews, Discuss, DVD & Sequel **SPOILERS**

How do you grade The Avengers?

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Trekker4747 said:
I'm not doing an re-watch of the movies "in order" just as the mood strikes. Thor and Cap have been probably the movies I've seen most recently so they're the ones I'll probably watch last.
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Makes sense. I haven't seen any of them in a while, so I figured I'd watch them "in order" even though they really don't need to be.
 
No, they don't really. I think I'm going to watch them in the same order as you. Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America
 
IM2 ends before Hulk, because the news of the campus fight is playing on one of Fury's screens in the Stark/Fury scene at the end of 2. so it's Cap-IM-IM2/TIH/Thor
 
comicbookmovie.com has a rundown of some minor comic characters that will be appearing and where a few Whedon alums get some screen time.

Alexis Denisof-Buffy/Angel/Dollhouse
Enver Gjokaj-Dollhouse
Ashley Johnson(not in cbm's list)-Dollhouse, support character there 3 episodes
 
Alex Denisof plays...

..."The Other"? And they seem to imply that he will appear in the post-credits sequence? That's not saying much. Or is it? ;):lol:
 
I've been working on slowly rewatching the movies over the past month or so. I've done IM1, TIH, IM2, and now I plan on watching Thor tomorrow, and Cap is next up on my Netflix queue but I haven't put my current disc in the mail yet, so I won't be able to watch it until Wed. at the earliest.
 
Never really understood the marathon/rewatch thing right before a new movie. I'd much rather see these guys with fresh eyes, and not risk getting worn out by their presence after spending hours and hours with them beforehand.
 
davejames said:
Never really understood the marathon/rewatch thing right before a new movie. I'd much rather see these guys with fresh eyes, and not risk getting worn out by their presence after spending hours and hours with them beforehand.
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I could never get worn out with the presence of these guys. I love me some superheroes so much.
 
^Sam here. I'm tempted to rewatch season 1 of Earth's Mightiest Heroes just for the hell of it.
 
I'm seeing it tomorrow - but I reckon it would be awesome at the screening I mentioned in the other thread, as I know of a lot of people who will be cosplaying at a screening in Sydney tomorrow night.
 
themiamiherald.com - impressed
Whedon keeps a tight rein on some potentially unwieldy material, and the result is a film that simultaneously should please purists (one of which he is) as well as those who aren't necessarily comic-book aficionados. He also stays true to the characters while establishing a tone that's very much his own. As he did with the recent horror hit "The Cabin in the Woods," which he co-wrote and produced, Whedon has come up with a script that's cheeky and breezy, full of witty banter and sly pop-culture shout-outs as well as self-referential humor, one that moves with an infectious energy that (almost) makes you lose track of its two-and-a-half-hour running time.

The dialogue sparkles as brightly as the special effects; these people may be wearing ridiculous costumes but they're well fleshed-out underneath. And so in every regard, this movie truly fulfills its hype.
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variety.com - positive
However questionable an idea it may have seemed initially, and at times along the way, Marvel's cinematic master plan for its comicbook all-stars pays off in extravagant fashion with "The Avengers." Like a superior, state-of-the-art model built from reconstituted parts, Joss Whedon's buoyant, witty and robustly entertaining superhero smash-up is escapism of a sophisticated order, boasting a tonal assurance and rich reserves of humor that offset the potentially lumbering and unavoidably formulaic aspects of this 143-minute team-origin story. With fan-ticipation reaching Hulk pressure-cooker levels, Disney's domestic and international returns will be nothing short of stratospheric, ancillary streams close to eternal."The Avengers" fully keeps the promise implicit in that plea, taking one of the dominant movie trends of recent years -- the nonstop proliferation of comicbook-based superheroes -- and pushing it to orgiastic new levels of CG-inflated, 3D-augmented geek-out mayhem. Expensive and expansive though it may be, however, the film is no bloated behemoth. As written and directed by the ever genre-savvy Whedon, it's a clean-burning, six-cylinder entertainment that exudes discipline in every particular, from the script's balance of sincerity and self-effacing humor to the well-integrated visual effects to the keen sense of proportion that governs the ensemble. Whenever the possibility of boredom or excess rears its head, Whedon finds an elegant solution.
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hollywoodreporter.com - praise
As creatively variable and predictably formulaic as the Marvel films have been, this one will not only make the core geek audience feel like it's died and gone to Asgard but has so much going for it that many nonfans will be disarmed and charmed. This is effects-driven, mass-appeal summer fare par excellence, that sought-after rare bird that hits all the quadrants, as marketing mavens like to say. As enormous as the production is, though, the appeal of the ensemble cast makes a crucial difference; you get enough but not too much of each of them, and they all get multiple scenes to themselves to shine.
'With only one feature directorial credit to his name, the middling 2005 sci-fier Serenity, Whedon of Buffy fame would not have been the first name on most people's lists to tame a potentially unwieldy project. But from a logistical point of view alone, he imposes a grip on the material that feels like that of a benevolent general, marshaling myriad technical resources (including an excellent use of 3D) while, even more impressively, juggling eight major characters, giving them all cool and important things to do.
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