The Avengers

Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/ Iron Man)
Chris Evans (Steve Rogers/Captain America)
Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/ The Hulk)
Chris Hemsworth (Thor)
Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanoff/ Black Widow)
Jeremy Renner (Clint Barton/ Hawkeye)
Samuel L Jackson (Nick Fury)
Tom Hiddleston (Loki)

      Nonstop action from start to finish. Transformers meets X-Men: First Class; ALL of the action but enough of a story-line to keep you engaged. This is a very very good movie. It is exactly what you expect, it lived up to all of my expectations and hopefully it will set the bar very high for the next big superhero movies of this summer (.....The Amazing Spiderman 7/3 and DARK KNIGHT RISES 7/20...).

     The plot is simple. Loki; the exiled/dethroned/little brother of Thor (see..Thor...) has partnered with an all powerful alien army to bring war to Earth and conquer it. Well lets just say Nick Fury and his band of "merry men" (and a lady) have some other plans. If you have not seen any of the other Marvel movies you will still be able to follow the story, although, if you have seen them it will give you a much better perspective on Loki's weapon of choice, the Tesseract!!!

      I truly enjoyed this movie, and so did my kids (boys both 6 & 7). Although it is rated PG-13 it is almost entirely due to the violence. If you are a comic book/superhero/action movie fan, battling the crowds this weekend will be well worth it!!!****Oh yeah, and for all those fans (including myself) who though that Marvel really screwed up not recasting Edward Norton as Bruce Banner/ The; Mark Ruffalo does an outstanding job, and fits perfectly into the role.

I rated this 8 out of 10
Rated: PG -13
Run Time: 142 mins