Marvel’s The Avengers (UK title: Avengers Assemble) (2012;
written and directed by Joss Whedon; from a story by Zak Penn and Joss Whedon,
based on characters created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee) is a blast—a one-way
ticket to Fanboy Heaven.
More importantly, the film celebrates the can-do teamwork
spirit of the USA that brings together different fractious personalities to
unite for the common good, as opposed to the cold and brutal self-created authority of the Batman and Superman
mythologies.
’Nuff Said!
Excelsior!
