The Marvelous Marvel Rewatch (Now Playing: Avengers: Infinity War)

[Angelus]

Right, so again, I agree with most of what has been said about Avengers already. It's ironic that the plot of the movie isn't very smart (to put it mildly), and yet the movie as a whole is very smart, because Whedon recognized that the most import thing bringing all these heroes together for the first time, is that it should be fun for the audience. This was an event a long time in the making, not just because the solo movies had been building up to it for a while, but because comic book fans had likely been dreaming of seeing a huge team up like this happen on the big screen for god only knows how long. So you gotta make a splash, and you gotta make sure people leave this thing with a smile on their face.

Now, I didn't actually watch this in theatres, because frankly I wasn't all that invested in the MCU at the time. I really thoroughly enjoyed the first Iron Man, but the movies after that didn't do much for me, so I wasn't exactly in a rush to go see Avengers on release. When I did eventually watch it though, it did bring that smile to my face, and it did this so well in fact, that I considered every following Marvel movie the next few years a must see, even when they often still disappointed me in the end.

I could say a lot of things about Avengers, as have you, but in the end, what it comes down to is that it makes you smile. Beyond that, it's the rock that the MCU has built their house on. Iron Man was a great start, and a better overall movie, but Avengers brought it home. It made you forget about all the mediocre movies you had to put up with since Iron Man, and made you look beyond Robert Downey Jr, to see that this collective ensemble could have staying power. It's the movie that showed you they could make this work.

Can I pick it apart? You bet. Wouldn't even have to try very hard. But that would be missing the point. This movie could easily have been Xmen (pick your number besides 2), and if it had, it wouldn't have made nearly the impact that it ended up having. The MCU could have imploded over this movie. Instead, it broke through to ridiculous new heights.

It's a solid 8/10 in my book