Just watched the Avengers.
It's an adequate movie. The action is pretty good and thankfully well shot, but the cuts are still a hair too fast for you to properly appreciate an action in it's full entirety. When it finally gets enough breathing room some of the dialogue is good like between Stark and Loki. Visually nice except when Samuel L Jackson first steps out of that helicopter, wow that was just bad.
Then there are a lot of issues that drag this movie down. Each one are individually small, but taken as a whole is a real anchor. Outside of those special moments, the dialogue is shallow, cliched, almost robotic in a way that it's forcing its way through in order to reach the next action scene. You could almost put a stop watch to the "Jokes" with them arrive at predicable intervals. While none of the "Jokes" were outright groaners, it felt held back or focus grouped.
The plot was basically "Something happening so we can have some sort of fight", functional, predictable. The pacing was goose stepping to a metronome, just moving on because it's "time".
Accents and language use was all over the place. Romanov couldn't decide whether to have a Russian accent or an American one. Thor was switching between modern English and some generic variant of "Ye olden timey English" mid sentence. Pick one damn it or just go full on Shakespearean assuming the actor was up to the task.
Samuel L Jackson was playing a director of a military spy agency who is Samuel L Jackson. Captain America was a wooden robot with an eternal boo boo. Thor is physically there, but he should either stop thinking altogether or stop and think because whatever he is doing right now isn't working for him. Stark is toned down and held back. Black Widow and Hawkeye were the same character with different weapons. I like Cobie Smulders but she was horribly mis-casted. Banner was the only character that "worked".
The worse thing about this movie was that the whole team infighting thing just doesn't work. There isn't enough history between the characters. They are just openly belligerent to each other with no reason. There is just not enough time for everybody even with the simple plot.
It is an adequate entertaining, unemotional superhero movie with some very blatant ploys to emulate a emotional connection.7/10