Avengers was great fun. I would say it's over-rated as I don't think it deserves its RT score. As far as box office goes you know there's a US skew in the theatre gross when the USA box office is more than 40% of the worldwide gross. The vast majority of $900 million + global movies have the US contribution below 40% and in some cases in the low 30s (Avatar was only 27% from US - so rather skewed the other way). With Avengers US box office is 41%, so somewhat skewed to US audience, but still with very wide appeal everywhere.
I think it hit theatres at a time when there was a global appetite for a bombastic popcorn flick. If it had released a year earlier or later I don't think it would have done as well. I thought $1 billion was gettable for the movie but I never imagined it would be the only movie so far to pass $1.5 billion not made by James Cameron.
Over-hyped sure, but not as in a rubbish movie getting way more than it deserved. More like a good movie made to appear great.
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