A nice surprise

I already saw this movie but since I just brought a brand new awesome TV, I thought I might as well re-watch it. Back then, the first time around, to be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this flick. Indeed, I thought that 'Iron man 2' was rather disappointing and ‘Thor’ and 'Captain America' didn’t turn out to be bad but they were still nothing amazing. In fact, this whole Avengers thing seemed to be some kind of misguided marketing stunt. Boy, I was wrong.... Indeed, it turned out to be one of the best super-hero flicks I have ever seen. Basically, there was an impressive cast, there were some really cool action scenes but it fortunately went beyond this. Eventually, you really have to give some credits to Joss Whedon who managed to put all those puzzle pieces together. Indeed, it was rather impressive to see how each character got enough screen time without getting too much attention. The story was also entertaining enough, there were some hilarious one-liners throughout the whole thing and the interaction between all those super-heroes was really neat. To be honest, I have to admit that is not as impressive as it used to be when you watch it again 10 years later and I guess it has to do with the fact that, since then, we have seen so many huge bombastic MCU installments involving so many more characters. Anyway, it was still a really fun flick though, I had a great time watching this and it has been a while since I had so much fun watching a blockbuster. It was also the proof that Marvel's gamble, to create a Cinematic Universe linking all kinds of characters together, was going to be a huge game changer at the box-office and this formula would be (so far, unsuccessfully) copied by virtually all the major movie studios in the following years. To conclude, it was a very nice surprise, I really enjoyed it and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.