I love Joss Whedon and when I knew he was going to direct The Avengers, I expected the same irreverent brilliance of Firefly or the subtle romance of Angel or even the intricate plot play of Buffy. But what we got was a straight out superhero movie. Now is that a bad thing? If it wasn't Joss Whedon, I would have said no.
We had already been introduced to Thor, Captain America and ofcourse Ironman (and Black widow in Ironman) while each of these movies were good,. it felt like a lead up to the avengers, so my expectations were immense. Now I am going to divide this review into tow parts. Here's why.
1. The first day, first show of the movie(don't ask me what all I had to do to get tickets and then only in the worst theatre in Chennai, more of that later), I had to walk out 3/4'th of the way. Life and career interfered. And when I walked out, let me tell you, I was vaguely, ok I admit immensely dissatisfied. I know he was trying to establish the different characters, maybe even bring about a sense of uncohesiveness (is that a word) but it felt forced. We see Loki stealing the tesseract (infinite energy source) messing up Hawkeye and the scientist guy from Thor's heads and Nick fury (whistle, whistle) trying to bring the superheroes together. One plus point is that he hasn't tried to make the movie easier for non fans, but i wanted more banter, more fun, more ....I don't know.....masala!
2. Then I booked the second time in Sathyam Cinemas and thank god, because - what a difference! Entire scenes became clearer and there were little points that I missed in Inox because of the dirty, dark screen. This time too even with the massive improvement in viewing pleasure I wasn't very happy except with Mr. Bruce Banner (I looouuurve you Hulk) and then the 3/4'th I had missed came, and I was happy. Very happy. Because Mr. Whedon redeems himslef in the final portion of the movie, we get everything we wanted and more with a huge splash of big and green!
7/10
PS: Public Service warning: Never ever watch movies at Inox, the screen dirty, the projection is horrendous! You will not realise it until you watch the same movie in Inox and Sathyam. The difference is massive! In Inox, faces are blurred, the screen is dark and above all, because the image is so unfocussed and blurred, you can even miss out plot points!
We had already been introduced to Thor, Captain America and ofcourse Ironman (and Black widow in Ironman) while each of these movies were good,. it felt like a lead up to the avengers, so my expectations were immense. Now I am going to divide this review into tow parts. Here's why.
1. The first day, first show of the movie(don't ask me what all I had to do to get tickets and then only in the worst theatre in Chennai, more of that later), I had to walk out 3/4'th of the way. Life and career interfered. And when I walked out, let me tell you, I was vaguely, ok I admit immensely dissatisfied. I know he was trying to establish the different characters, maybe even bring about a sense of uncohesiveness (is that a word) but it felt forced. We see Loki stealing the tesseract (infinite energy source) messing up Hawkeye and the scientist guy from Thor's heads and Nick fury (whistle, whistle) trying to bring the superheroes together. One plus point is that he hasn't tried to make the movie easier for non fans, but i wanted more banter, more fun, more ....I don't know.....masala!
2. Then I booked the second time in Sathyam Cinemas and thank god, because - what a difference! Entire scenes became clearer and there were little points that I missed in Inox because of the dirty, dark screen. This time too even with the massive improvement in viewing pleasure I wasn't very happy except with Mr. Bruce Banner (I looouuurve you Hulk) and then the 3/4'th I had missed came, and I was happy. Very happy. Because Mr. Whedon redeems himslef in the final portion of the movie, we get everything we wanted and more with a huge splash of big and green!
7/10
PS: Public Service warning: Never ever watch movies at Inox, the screen dirty, the projection is horrendous! You will not realise it until you watch the same movie in Inox and Sathyam. The difference is massive! In Inox, faces are blurred, the screen is dark and above all, because the image is so unfocussed and blurred, you can even miss out plot points!
