I've been colder on Avengers movies than most. I've found them enjoyable, but rate them as mid-tier entries in the MCU. That changed with this film, which is the movie
Avengers was always supposed to be. The mix-and-match character pairings all work like gangbusters, and the emotional stuff -- especially Iron Man/Spiderman and Thanos/Gamorra, really lands. It's incredibly impressive they pulled all of this together so well and in such a casually subversive way.
I am especially delighted the filmmakers and Josh Brolin made Thanos such a vivid and well-realized protagonist -- a crazy thing to write since he's the big villain. He's not as affective in the sequel, but here he's a near perfect movie villain, which marks a refreshing change of pace. Obviously, the characters who disappeared were always going to come back, but this one left me legit excited to see the payoffs in the follow-up anyway.
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