REVIEW: Why "The Avengers" is the Best Movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

The Avengers

Paramount Pictures / Walt Disney Pictures

By: Chris "Sledge" Douglas


The Avengers.

I was not expecting to like this movie as much as I did.

Sorry, not like.  LOVE.

I unabashedly LOVE this film!

There hasn't been a movie that made me feel like the way this film did.  It catered to me as an action movie fan, as a comic book fan, as a Marvel fan, as a fan of the individual characters, as a fan of the previous movies, and, most importantly, it penetrated my jaded exterior to reach a part of me that hasn't been active in years.

Yes, I love this movie, and I'd like to SOMEHOW explain why.  Here is my attempt to do so.

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Thor and the Avengers vs. Molto and the Lava Men!

In order to help us all wash away the bad taste left in our mouths from Iron Man 3 (which, incidently, a much better movie on second viewing, though more on that later), here is an episode of the infamously cheaply "animated" Marvel Super Heroes cartoon from 1966. This is an episode of Thor's segment, and here he teams up with the Avengers.

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