Got around to watching it the other night.
Things I disliked:
- Peter Quill on Earth and he doesn't even try to buy a new cassette in the prologue? A bit of a waste.
- The girl power scene purely for the suspension of disbelief. Could have been written a billion times more cohesively to get to that action shot instead of just coming across as contrived and cringey.
- Pretty much everything involving Carol Danvers. I didn't even dislike the CM movie but she was just so superfluous in this whole movie, every scene was about her being a Deus Ex Marysuechina.
- The five year time skip. Could have achieved much of the same with two or three years while making the epilogue more contained. About the only reason for a five year skip was to make Stark's daughter the right age to be adorable with the "I love you 3000" line. But in a movie featuring all kinds of time travel they could easily have had that scene play out somehow.
- Certain events of Civil War felt like they got brushed under the rug considering there's a five year gap between IW and EG.
- Doctor Strange suddenly underpowered AF. The best they could do for him was flood control?
- No Daisy Johnson.
Things I loved:
- Thor going for the head
- "I thought you were a Build-A-Bear" and "That chick with the antenna". Any scene with Rocket Raccoon, really.
- Ronin's swordfight.
- Any scene with Scott Lang. The quantum physics moment with Natasha and the time travel discussion with Banner
- Professor Hulk.
- Professor Hulk "Hulking out" in NYC 2012
- Hulk and the stairs
- Fat Thor
- Hawkeye vs Black Widow.
- Cap vs Cap
- Cap wielding Mjolnir
- Thor to Cap "You take the small one"
-
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE. How many
years did we wait for that one little phrase?
- Wanda vs Thanos
- I am Iron Man.
- Star Lord being in command of his ship.
Was it a great stand alone movie? No, and it didn't try to be. It was an epic finale to a long journey and it did what it set out to do. The minor blemishes might keep it from being perfect, but overall it has to be said that it really did live up to its own hype. It was a movie about the original six Avengers, and managed to be focused enough to give them all closure.