I am not a comic reader so I am watching all of these movies with no preconceptions as to what to expect.
I wanted to like this film, the trailers and teasers made this look like this was going to be good. However, the reality was a film that was not much more than - look at Thor he is going to be in the Avengers film.
The 3D did not add anything to the impact of the story and looked like an afterthought. The fact that I nearly fell asleep part way through the film, not something I have ever done before, is a testament as to how overlong the film was. The thing is there is not enough "meat on the bones" in this movie, there are long tracts of nothing much happening or furthering the plot. These "origin" stories are in danger of putting non-fans off the series, there needs to be enough of a story and hook to bring in people like me who do not know the comics.
As it stands, I feel like they could have merged several of these films into one, cutting out the protracted fill-in material that adds nothing and then just get on with the main Avengers flick.
I can only hope Avengers lives up to all this protracted hype or there will be a mob with pitchforks and torches.
