Review: This is it folks, what Marvel has been building up to for over a decade. Is it worth the wait or all this buildup? Heck yeah, it is.
This movie offers pure entertainment and all the fun one could want in a superhero movie. When watching the climatic fight the crowd went crazy, actually applauding at various scenes. I have never heard this much applause or excitement from an audience during an action scene before (ok maybe the car chase in Bullitt while at the TCM film festival but that's it). This applause and excitement was well earned. This has to be the best action scene in the history of the MCU, perfectly planned and made for us film geeks who love these movies to nerd out watching. The scale is epic, but never overwhelming so. It feels like the gigantic battle it should be but you never get lost in the massiveness. This is not to say all the fun comes from the action scenes. This movie's sense of humor is downright fantastic and I found myself laughing out loud plenty of times while watching. There are so many comedic highlights here that it is hard to count them all. I will say though Thor has been my least favorite Avenger since his first movie, but that all changes with this one. I won't give away what happens with him, but it is as funny as anything ever to be in a Marvel movie. I also love many of Rocket's one-liners, the scene with Hulk doing selfies, Tony and Nebula entertaining themselves aboard the ship and the hilarious banter about Cap's butt. All of this had me laughing out loud. The movie can drag a bit in the early scenes, but when it gets going it is as entertaining as these movies can get.
With how fun this movie is it certainly does not skimp on the emotional moments either. There are definitely some real tearjerker moments. These are extremely effective and feel well earned with the amount of time we spent with these characters as well as how much we have grown to love them. As someone who considers Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Solider as two of the finest (if not the two finest) Marvel movies to date, what they do with Cap here is perfect and really warms my heart.
I can't talk much more about this movie as it has so many twists and turns that it would be hard to do so without spoiling the film. However I will say, if you are a Marvel fan this is a must see, and a movie that certainly lives up to its hype.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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