I need a team to review this movie... ASSEMBLE!!

I'm doing a review of The Avengers...

No, not THOSE Avengers... THE OTHER Avengers!! You know, Earth's Mightiest Heroes... and before you load a clip of the Cartoon series I'm talking about the Live action 2012 movie...

 These guys...
Now I give you two options:
A) you read the long winded review where I'll say how much I disliked Scarlett Johnasson
or
B) read the short review for the movie that should be called Ironmanhulk3 thorCaptainamerica2 featuring Hawkeye and Scarlett Johansson pretending to be badass.

Obviously since you are here you know that Option B is not a valid option. So where do we start:
Required viewing Material before Avengers:
Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk (the one with Ed Norton... who was replaced in Avengers by Mark Ruffalo)

So this movie begins at the end of those all movies... and if you saw the post-credits scenes in all of them, you may have noticed that they were setting up stuff for this movie, like Loki escaping his fate, the Cosmic Cube and all that...) Luckily we don't have to waste a lot of time on character development because we spent 5 movies on it... Cap is still adjusting, Tony Stark is well, Tony Stark, Hulk... he's been in remission cause Banner's keeping the beast within him, well, within! The Avengers are assembled... they fight evil and they win... Is it spoilers if we say that the heroes win on a superhero movie?

This is a Joss Whedon Film...

Yes, THAT Joss Whedon... So expect some witty remarks from the characters and various pop culture references and good action scenes plus some interactions to use as development.

Now, after Rewatching Ironman 2 and now watching The Avengers, I must say that I DON'T LIKE ScarJo as Black Widow.

This is why she's here...

It's nothing Personal against Scarlett Johansson. It's just that she doesn't look like she's a tough Russian assassin/spy who is always in control of the situation (as seen on the info gathering scenes). She is EXCELLENT at portraying the weak, helplessness that makes the villains reveal their plans to her. In the action scenes where she's supposed to be using her awesome kick-ass KGB Skills her expression seems more like a deer caught in headlights than "I'm going to kick alien butt all the way to Uranus."

ScarJo is not amused at my feeble attempts at comedic insults.

Mark Ruffalo, Banner #3... was pretty good. Personally I prefer Ed Norton as Bruce Banner, but Mark does a Pretty good job as Banner.

The rest of the cast is pretty good and spot-on to their characters as seen in previous movies. You can nitpick a few things here and there (invisible headsets, 15-20 minutes of Iron Man trying to fix an engine.) but the movie was pretty enjoyable... If you haven't seen it, you should.

Now since The Avengers worked pretty well as a Superhero movie, DC is most likely to follow suit...

Here is where we hit a MAJOR SNAG... DC's inability to see the Universe beyond Bats and Supes...

OK, so they made a Green Lantern movie with ScarJo's ex... Ryan Reynolds!

ScarJo is not amused by my Ryan Reynolds mention.

Having a Justice League movie when the only DC Characters explored in Film are Supes, Bats, and Hal Douchebag is very likely to suck... especially since Christian "Mad Dog" Bale isn't coming back for a JL movie. Superman may not be the same actor from Man of Steel, then we'd have to sit through Aquaman and Wonder Woman character development... not to mention Nu Bats and Nu Nu Supes.

Even if they do the Just-Us League, they'd still have to explain Wonder Woman and the Most likely Apokoliptian Invasion, cause let's face it, an invasion from Apokolips is the only threat that would require the main DC heroes to join forces... AAAND we land on Justice League is ripping off Avengers...The other option is a Starro attack, now that would be different, but I'm not too sure how it COULD work...

Now with all that said, Team movies are a bit hard to work because the members of the team need time for development and exposure, otherwise we get things like Wolverine and Friends, Wolverine and Friends 2: United, and Wolverine and Friends 3: The Last Stand...

So, I have to say... AVENGERS, ASSEMBLE!! for the sequel... Most likely against a Mad Titan who worships Mistress Death...

Now THAT is a real Spoiler... Mah bad!