As my review for Paste shows, I had a blast seeing the comic book team dynamic finally captured on the Big Screen. Some personal context that I couldn’t really go into in the review proper: I collected comic books actively from age 5 to about 19, sporadically till about 25 and still “catch up” on story arcs using collected editions in bookstores and the Marvel iPad app. I LOVE the classic battle of a team of superheroes versus a team of villains. Granted, this isn’t the Avengers versus the Masters of Evil or the Zodiac or such, but it at least captures one side of the equation (whereas the X-Men movies, though featuring two teams, rarely featured the cooperative activity of its members, let alone two sides of cooperative action pitted against each other).
Film Review: The Avengers