The Avengers!

The Avengers is one of the greatest superhero movies that I've seen. It's got the perfect balance of comedy and action sprinkled with a little bit of drama. In this movie, Nick Fury brings together a rag tag group of exceptional people after Loki of Asgaard steals the tesseract from SHIELD. Ok, I'm going to stop pretending like you don't know what I'm talking about. If you didn't see it, or any of the other superhero movies that led up to this, then you're crazy!!!! Basically the main plot of this movie in short is that Loki wants to take over the world and rule the people, thinking that freedom is bad for us. So he uses another alien race's army to take over our world, but the Avengers stop him!

We have Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow and Hawkeye saving the day. A little surprise for tv fans was the appearance of How I Met Your Mother's Robin Sherbotsky making an appearance as Fury's Number 2 , Agent Hill. She did a pretty good job, but  I always have a hard time taking her seriously in a non comedic roll. Also, the hidden gem of this movie was Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk. There have been many attempts at making a successful franchise off of the Hulk, but have all miserably failed. But Mark Ruffalo brought the most amazing humility and humor and sarcasm to the character. Even the Hulk persona was funny. One thing that cannot be forgotten about is the awesome bromance that is blossoming between Banner and Stark. They both have so much in common, and I believe that they are best friends! Loki's character really stepped it up after the movie Thor. He's not just an immature villain, but he really does have a suaveness/coolness about him that is just mesmerizing. If only his fake hair wasn't super distracting and awful. He looks like a bad Severus Snape.


One other thing that I really got a kick of in this movie was all the references that Captain America didn't know, but then he knew the reference about the wizard of Oz and was super excited.

The bonus features with this movie are definitely worth it. There is the first ever Marvel Gag Reel! It was set to some pretty fun music and was fun to watch. Then there were lots of extended and deleted scenes. I wish that the deleted scenes had been added, but the movie was already 2 1/2 hours long.

My favorite Iron Man comment: "Clench up Legolas"
Andrew's Closing Thoughts: Assemble!!

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