The Avengers
As Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and also the agents from the secret military agency S.H.I.E.L.D. make an effort to harness the power of the extraterrestrial energy source referred to as Tesseract, the villainous exiled demigod Loki (Tom Hiddleston) returns to Earth to steal it. Along with the cube, Loki brainwashes and kidnaps assassin Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) and scientist Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard) to assist in his devious plot to conquer all humanity. To combat this new threat, Fury reinstitutes his scrapped "Avengers" initiative and sets about gathering together the world's greatest heroes - Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson).
The posing, evil grimacing to denote villainy, and arsenal of one-liners are in an all-time full of The Avengers, which activly works to assemble a group of superheroes that constantly compete for screen time, one-upmanship, and the last laugh. The humor is actually overdone, poking fun at all of the characters and situations to the stage that audiences will most likely question which absurdities they must be taking seriously. And that is detrimental in a film filled with fantastical silliness, both visually and from dialogue. It's bad enough that despite gods and alien worlds, the extremely advanced technology is still unbelievable - and that jargon like gamma signature, thermonuclear, quantum, fusion, and cognitive recalibration sound so ludicrously forced for the sake of convincing viewers that the Avengers' instruments are beyond general comprehension.
Although it's not a significant sequel, it still only feels appropriate to measure it up to films like Transformers 3, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Iron Man 2, Superman Returns and the like. It's not as mind-numbingly nonsensical as a some of the aforementioned titles, but it doesn't look or feel original, and the abundance of effects and overwhelming destruction create nonstop spectacle without substance. Never once can there be any real peril; this is made upsettingly apparent using the inclusion of non-superheroes Black Widow and Hawkeye, who're just too drastically inferior to increase against global catastrophes initiated by intergalactic alien wargods. With a complete insufficient definition for that various powers exhibited by the antagonists and protagonists alike, their massive demolition of Manhattan and battling one another for the title of "toughest superhero" means very little. They might as well be invincible. No villain is formidable enough and no force threatening enough of these cartoonish CG-inundated extravagances to become sympathetic.