Avengers Assemble (aka Marvel’s The Avengers) (review)
How many superheroes spoil the broth? More than six, apparently, at least when Joss Whedon is wrangling them.
How many superheroes spoil the broth? More than six, apparently, at least when Joss Whedon is wrangling them.
“You just made some of the most highly trained professionals in the world look like minimum-wage mall cops. That’s hurtful.” –Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) to Thor (Chris Hemsworth), and more…
I knew it! I knew Kenneth Branagh was a geek. Oh, sure, he got famous for all that snooty Shakespeare stuff, but deep down, he’s mad for comic books and superheroes and all that pulp-fiction stuff. He’s a dork.
It’s an entry in the ongoing series ‘Starz Inside’ that the cable network Starz likes to label ‘documentary,’ but this one, at least, feels exactly like the kind of promotional filler you find filling up odd scheduling holes on premium movie channels (it’s suspiciously 59 minutes in length).

I kinda would have liked to be able to toss off a ‘it’s not easy being green’ quip about *Hulk* and be done with it, but damn if Ang Lee hasn’t gifted us with a film that I don’t want to be flip about. Yeah, it’s about a rather enormous green guy who smashes stuff… except that’s like saying that *Hamlet* is about this college kid who goes crazy.