Well, what does everyone think by now? Overall I enjoyed it. If I wasn't a comic book geek though I'd have liked it less. For me the thrill of seeing the characters pop off the pages of the books still gets me giddy!
A few negatives (not much for spoilers but skip this if you simply can't bear to hear anything at all!
). First the romance between Natasha/Black Widow and Banner seemed really forced to me. There's nothing in any of their previous onscreen encounters that showed an spark me. Now Widow and Cap, there was a little electricity between them. Even her and Barton you could see (if not for his wife). So it seems more like a plot device than an organic development. Also, Ultron was really lame. Spader did an awesome job, don't get me wrong. His Ultron was creepy and funny at the same time, and he had some great lines. But he wound up not being very powerful or threatening. Worse yet it wound up being the same thing as Avengers 1; instead of an army of faceless alien/bots we got an army of faceless Ultron bots. That was a bit disappointing.
But the Vision was awesome! It was great to see him onscreen and very well done. They captured his eerie grace very well, although I was disappointed to not see him using his ability to become insubstantial (note- someone told me he briefly did this while fighting a robot but if so it was too quick for me to see). The writing was good and the characters banter was great. You finally get a sense of them being "family" of a sort. Thor got some terrific lines and Hawkeye finally got a chance to shine. Scarlet Witch was well done IMO and was portrayed very well by Olson.
To me the battle between Stark in the Hulk Buster armor and ol' Green was worth the entire price of the ticket!
They masterfully captured the feel of the comic book fights!
Overall not as fresh as the first one but still well worth it, especially for comic book nerds.
