Avengers

Hollywood loves it's franchises, for they are extremely marketable. If the book, item, show, ect, is popular enough, it will become a movie. This is has happened most often with comics. So far Batman, Spiderman, The Hulke, ect, have become movies. There's nothing wrong with this, in a lot of cases these movies are good, but the stories are starting to get a little predictable.

Stop me if you've heard this one before, "Some all powerful government thing has an energy source that can be used as a continuous renewing source of energy. But there's a bad guy who wants to use it for his own ends. Stealing ensues, there's brain washing, a short fight scene, we've all seen it before. So our friendly neighborhood government agency gathers a team to take out the bad guy and get the energy source back. However there is a clash of the personalities and this idea falls flat, until some emotional trigger makes them wake up and realize "We are screwed if we don't get our act together!!!" This culminates is the traditional small group of good guys vs. the bad guy and his army of minions from another galaxy. And as is traditional the good guys win because of a combination of luck, the smarts of a couple of the characters, and sheer brute strength."

We have seen this in countless movies over the last ten years, namely in Super Hero movies (see Batman, Spiderman, the Fantastic Four 1&2, ect). Frankly this is starting to become a formula, and therefore boring.

The Avengers is decently done. The cinematography is o.k. and the effects are decent, but we hardly get more than a couple of seconds with them. This leads to the theory that the producers shaved a couple of thousand off the effects budget. but this is just a theory. The real problem with this movie is the story.

It's not that it's not well written, it's written decently and some parts give some interesting insight into the characters. Heck in some parts the characters have you completely fooled, and that is GREAT!!! When a character fools you it makes you believe in the story, it puts you in the movie. However the story in and of itself was boring. It's been done, several times, and that's all that can be said about it.