Good things first. Only director Joss Whedon can click so
many superheroes in a single frame, period! Mind it when I say, “Superheroes”,
if it would be about the number of characters clicking in a single frame than I would rather say Martin Scorsese
(and that’s hell good of a thing for Joss to be compared with the latter).
I am not quite a big fan of WWE and Marvel when it
comes to movie making, but this one is far better than what these two had to offer
ever, especially in terms of script and dialogues. The punches can never be
more hilarious and aptly sarcastic as they have been woven in this film.
The cinematography and action sequences are in league with
Transformer series and you enjoy every bit of it. However, the aliens and their
ships don’t leave you gasping in awe as they did in the Transformer series and
I felt that they were a bit too fragile in breaking up and tearing down!
Now Comes to the Critic Part:
This film is highly, HIGHLY over-rated. If there would be a
superlative for “highly” I would’ve used that. The current IMDB rating is 9.0
from I believe 21 thousand kids alone.
Because 9.0, whatever be the genre, makes the movie stand at par with
Shawshank, Godfather, Good Will Hunting which it is not and no mature movie viewer
would ever believe that.
The first half is too long. I could literally hear people
chatting around just because the narrative was not catchy enough if not boring.
Since the viewer knew almost nothing about
Black Widow and Hawkeye, some sequences were just built up to give some
form to their character, but even after that they ended up nothing more than a
side kick. Same goes for Thor and (worthless)
Captain America. Even Iron Man takes every possible dig on him and on his
lesser knowledge of the “New” world if not for a less IQ.
Only One character takes almost all of the loaf, and that is
Iron Man. With best punching lines, maximum on-screen time and a fair role in
climax leave every other character except the Hulk look like a sidekick, and I’m
not saying Hulk as a sidekick because he has the minimum time on-screen but has
the maximum impact and even the “hero” Iron Man compared him to an army in one
of the scenes with Loki (the villain).
One more thing that I want to mention is the cheap tactics
that is being used by Hollywood is to gain the viewership of Indian audience by
mentioning India’s name or show a scene or two of this “Exotic” country. I mean
the scene where Hulk is seen residing in India is not more than 30 sec long comprising
a Hindi dialogue is nothing more than cheap publicity. Also at the end of the
movie, we can see graffiti “Nayak” on some wall with Iron Man’s pic on it,
lauding the superhero. I mean what needs to be questioned is that why in the
whole world such a graffiti would be made in our country when the aliens attack
only New York this time and not even the whole of America(like every other
superhero movie).
Conclusion: Avengers is a good movie in its own genre. Go
and enjoy with a popcorn and cola and you will laugh every now and then as the
punches are nicely placed and well timed in the movie, just do not expect a
masterpiece like Dark Knight or anything. The movie is a real entertained and I
would give it a cool 7.5/10.
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