film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
Ten years of Marvel superheroism culminates in a battle for the universe itself. Exhausting, bitterly humorous, and gripped in a stunning finality, it’s almost too much to take in, yet somehow not enough.
Breezy, jokey, crammed with clever sci-fi ideas; the funniest MCU flick yet. Director Taika Waititi brings a new geeky verve we didn’t realize the series needed.
Busy with CGI to hide the emptiness where the emotional core should be. Even the mechanics of getting a man from mere mortal to demigod-in-a-cape are rote.
Suffers badly by comparison with the cogent, witty Avengers flicks. This feels like a campy Saturday-morning cartoon left over from the 1970s.
Stuff I found on the Net today.
Seems to me that the only possible “downside” to such a rating would be the discomfort some people may experience when they are suddenly forced to see how poorly women are represented on the big screen.
So peaceful, before the battle of the galactic gods.
Think heavy-metal Lord of the Rings. With wormholes. It’s completely mad and kind of awesome.
Warring brothers! Ha. Tony Stark was right.
First it was total anihilation in G.I. Joe: Retaliation; then will come some sort of terrorist bombing in Star Trek Into Darkness; and here we see Greenwich getting torn up by, apparently, an alien ship.
