So much to love about this movie. =D

**mild spoilers ahead if someone hasn’t seen Avengers yet**

LOL, I only noticed CA’s suit because of Colson’s “you know I helped design it” fanboy bragging. I did recall thinking the hoodie was a little weird but I didn’t see the CA movie so I don’t know how they handled the cowl before.

Loki was also caught off guard in the Thor movie too so I didn’t really notice him being too much dumber in this one, but he was a lot less nasty and manipulative, which surprises me in retrospect as this is a Joss Whedon movie. Ah well, I don’t mind too terribly much because it was a “team formation” movie so the villain is going to be somewhat hamstrung because he has to be defeatable by a very shaky team.

Ditto on the Joss Whedon credit, between this and Cabin in the Woods, he’s getting lots of positive buzz which is great!

Sorry to hear that the hubby didn’t like it. Then again that might be simply because everyone else liked it. =P

I did see all the movies and made a point too, so maybe I was already emotionally invested, but I felt that they did a pretty good job of not relying too much on the past movies. It really seemed like each character had their little intro that gave plenty of information. But again I’m not the best judge of that since I had seen all the movies.

My only real beef with the movie was Captain America’s suit. It kept distracting me with its odd hoody and I swear I saw a frayed seam or two. Also Loki seemed a bit on the stupid side, maybe naive is a better word. Just seemed odd that he would be caught flat footed. =)

Anyway glad you liked it. Clearly you have excellent taste. =D
Also I’m glad that Joss Whedon is finally getting some credit for his skill.

The only two duds for me were the female sidekick for Nick Fury. Ugh, her nasal voice and flat acting were so glaringly obvious next to the rest of the cast (she’s fine on HIMYM, but not in this). And I really disliked Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye. He didn’t convince me that Hawkeye was smart or cool. I thought the craptastic archery was going to irritate me but honestly I didn’t even really notice because I found him so boring that my eyes kept drifting away from him to look at the background any time he was on the screen. My friend really likes him so it’s probably just me.

The waste of Enver Gjokaj (Victor from Dollhouse) in a bit part was criminal. Man I would loved to see him as Hawkeye. He’s not the best fit for it but at least I’d have paid attention to him.

My hubby didn’t really care for it, and in some ways it almost sounds like he had a similar reaction that you did to X-Men First Class. He saw Iron Man 1 and 2, and the two hulk movies, but didn’t see Captain America or Thor. And since most of the movie’s plot came from those two movies, he didn’t have any emotional investment in the doomsday device or the villain. So the plot was really uninteresting to him and the story between Thor and Loki flew right over his head.

He also lacked a lot of background on the characters, and since the movie only sketchily covered back history stuff, I think that really hampered his ability to connect to any of the characters. Thus the dialog was less funny and meaningful.

Of course I’ve only seen Iron Man 1&2 and Thor, so not seeing all the previous movies may not be so critical, but it does seem like it didn’t help.

Oh well!

I hear the DVD release will have more extended scenes with character development/dialog so perhaps that will be better for him. I know I’m totally buying it! :D