It's the sort of superhero film I've personally wished for since I was eight years old, reading The Avengers from Englehart through Shooter through Michilenie and watching George Perez and John Byrne come into their own as artists.
It's nice that this movie was simultaneously a mindless action movie and a deeply plotted look at bureaucracy and deception.
Jon Favreau approached Avi Arad with the intention of making it a comedy, but luckily opted to make Iron Man instead. Then, Incredible Hulk director, Louis Leterrier, was shown concept art and offered his services, but Marvel turned him down.
That score was markedly lower amongst White Supremacists, who objected to Idris Elba's casting as a black Norse god and attempted to organize a boycott of the film.It had no effect.
Pre-judging the summer movies for May and June!
Not only is this film set six months after the first film, through later interactions with Fury, we discover that it is occurring at the same time as The Incredible Hulk and that Stark's father was a founding member of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The story, unfortunately, doesn't really break any new ground, despite being action-packed and more viscerally entertaining than Ang Lee's version.
On October 24, 1991, the world lost one of its great visionaries, and a man who left an indelible mark.
The first step on the road to The Avengers was taken in 2006, as actor/director Jon Favreau was hired to direct Marvel's first independent production, Iron Man.
With Avengers right around the corner, it only seems right to revisit another work written by Joss Whedon.
