Top 10 Things I Like about The Avengers

Today I treated myself and the kids to another great movie, The Avengers. It is so great that the queue to the ticket booth was already about a half kilometer long at the first hour that the cinema opened. Thanks to my privilege card, we did not have to suffer the agony of waiting.

Okay, unlike the others, I wasn’t able to follow the lives or the movies shown for each Avenger, especially when Nick Fury kept coming out in the end. I saw him in Captain America, but I’m not sure in Thor because I wasn’t able to finish it. Then I learned that Fury comes out in the end as a prelude to that one big movie where all those heroes, now called The Avengers, will be in. Talk about preparation! Now that I think of it, why aren’t other Marvel heroes there, like Spiderman and the X-Men. And will there be a movie featuring the Super Friends?

I like it so much that I was able to come up with top 10 things that I really like about it:

#10.  That all of them are hot. By order of hotness, they are: Chris Evans (Captain America), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Robert Downey, Jr. (Iron Man), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), even Samuel Jackson (Nick Fury – although I’m distracted by the stitches around his covered eye), Tom Hiddlestone (Loki, the villain with a stylish hair), and yes the girls: Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Cobie Smulders (Agent Maria Hill), and Gwyneth Paltrow (Peppers Potts, Iron Man’s love interest). I couldn’t get enough of them.

#9. The concept for the enemy. I did not read ahead about the plot but I was really wondering what kind of a villain could possibly challenge those heroes. I mean, what is it that would be too powerful that Fury would need all of them? I did not imagine that it would be Thor’s brother, Loki. Only a god, of course, would qualify (but that didn’t deter Hulk when he threw him around).

#8. The inclusion of the two plain humans but with special skills — Hawkeye and Black Widow. They were not experiment products nor demigods but they sure rock! This means that you can be a hero even if you don’t have superpowers.

#7. That they fought against each other at first. It would be impossible to believe that with their super-egoes they would get along instantly. Well, to put it more accurately, Iron Man did not get along with them in the start.

#6. That many of them can’t fly (or can’t jump between buildings like Hulk). Hawkeye and Black Widow in many instances needed help to get to high places. Even Captain America was almost thrown off the plane or the ship or the base when he was being gunned down by an assasin. The fact that three of the heroes can’t fly, make them, well, grounded.

#5. The fact that the first time Bruce Banner transformed in the movie, he ended up naked. C’mon, he’s got to be naked after breaking out in anger because he tore his clothes into pieces, right? The producers of Twilight should consider the same for Jacob in its last installment.

#4. The friendship of Black Widow and Hawkeye. When Hawkeye was under Loki’s spell, Black Widow knocked him unconscious to help him return to consciousness. Isn’t it sweet? I’m thinking probably there’s more than friendship to it. Nonetheless, I like their partnership.

#3. That Thor has always considered Loki as his brother (even if he threw him into the abyss). Actually he got stabbed because of that. I like that in the end they did not kill Loki despite all the crazy things he has done, perhaps because of Thor. They just shut his mouth up and let Thor bring him back to their world, with the glowing green cube, which basically started the mayhem.

#2. That Iron Man, despite his selfishness was willing to sacrifice himself to save the world by bringing the rocket to the outer space (which was, by the way, so powerful it managed to hit the enemy’s base huh). He even followed, along with the others, Captain America’s gameplan in the end (I love his instruction to Hulk — smash).

#1. The hilarious antics. I laughed hard not only at Iron Man’s remarks. I think there was something funny in about three-fourths of the movie. It was funny when Black Widow was first called, when Black Widow tried to convince Dr. Bruce Banner to join, when Agent Coulson visited Tony Stark, when Agent Coulson talked to Captain America, when Iron Man and Thor first met, when Hulk came to the scene of action, when Hulk smashed Loki, and when Hulk growls at Iron Man when they thought he was dead. I think I laughed for maybe about 80% of the movie.

Overall, The Avengers was a great treat. Watching it was the nicest way to cap the week, I think even the month. Two thumbs up!