In The Avengers, Nick Fury, director of the peacekeeping organization S.H.I.E.L.D., recruits Iron man, Captain America, the Hulk and Thor to form a team that must stop Thor’s adoptive brother Loki from controlling Earth.
The movie stars Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man, Chris Evens as Captain America, Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk, Chris Memsworth as Thor, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson, Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill, Stellan Skarsgard as Dr. Erik Selvig, and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury.
This movie has a lot to offer, it’s got a lot of action, dramatic scenes and some humor. The movie is based around an evil army that Loki controls. The avengers don’t start out as a working team, they have differences that cause fighting within themselves, and it causes some funny moments. The movie overall is very well done and it deserves more that it has had so far. It has brought in $1,511,757,910 according to the box office results. With all that in mind, their budget was only $220 million so it was a huge profit.
To determine if this movie is a buy, rent or not even bother, you have to look at the reviews from different sources. The movie got a 92% approval rate, which is an 8/10, from Rotten Tomatoes, based on 288 reviews, they say “With a script that never forgets its heroes’ humanity and no shortage of super powered set pieces, The Avengers lives up to its hype and raises the bar for Marvel at the movies”. On Metacritic, the film got an average score of 69/100 based on 43 reviews; they say it had “generally favorable reviews”. CinemaScore reported that audiences gave the film a rare A+ grade. Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave a positive review of the film, remarking “It’s clamorous, the save-the-world story is one everyone’s seen time and again, and the characters have been around for more than half a century in 500 comic book issues. But Whedon and his cohorts have managed to stir all the personalities and ingredients together so that the resulting dish, however familiar, is irresistibly tasty again”. My honest review and final thoughts of this movie is that it was straight out fantastic and amazing in every way. I give it a 9/10, only because it could have been longer.
This movie is definitely worth buying or renting if you like a lot of action and crude humor, but if you don’t like action, then this might not be the movie for you.