Quickly smashing pretty much every box-office record, this highly-anticipated round-up of superheroes stars Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Captain America, Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye. It also stars Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgard, and Gwyneth Paltrow. When Thor's evil brother Loki (Tom Hiddleton) invades Earth and threatens to take it over with his extraterrestrial army, it is up to Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Samuel L.Jackson) to assemble a team of superheroes, known as the Avengers, to prevent world takeover. The film did an exceptional job of delivering on the hype -- it was a very good superhero film/comic book adaptation; in fact, it is probably one of the best I've seen. It is well-paced (it manages very well its 2+ hours of running time) and a superb technical film -- the special and sound effects are excellent. What kept me from enjoying the film even more than I did, though, was the inevitable plot holes that not even an above-average superhero film can avoid. Though these discrepancies left me a little irritated, the film overall is an outstanding summer blockbuster.
Should you see it: Yes
Grade: B+
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