The Avengers (2012 film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Joss Whedon’s The Avengers (2012) is consistently entertaining.  Its action footage would be more entertaining, wholly exciting, if it contained greater suspense (like the car chase in The French Connection), but no matter.  It’s still head-on fun and technically accomplished.

Certain Marvel comic-book movies, most of which I haven’t seen, anticipated this lengthy flick in which Captain America, Iron Man, the Hulk and other superheroes band together to–you got it–save the world.  (I wonder who’s going to save it from the economic policies of political leaders?)  I enjoyed the movie’s humor and was certainly glad the talented, now likeable Robert Downey Jr. was on hand.  I mean he’s now likeable as a human being, I think.  Like the action, Downey makes us forget most of Whedon’s poor plotting.