We saw the new Avengers movie last weekend. While I get that it is really hard to make a movie with that many main characters and not get muddled, this one was really a step down from the first. More galling was the fact that it struck me as the exact same movie as the first one, just more vague.

In both movies:

• Apparently, fighting bad guys is not enough, so for some reason, 2-3 of the Avengers fight amongst themselves
• After that, everyone goes to a home place to hang out and talk amongst themselves, for some reason. Some boring “character development”/exposition happens
• The Avengers start arguing amongst themselves
• One of the big strong guys just leaves/disappears
• The bad guy who wants to conquer/destroy the world, for some vague unspecified reason, starts his plan which ends in an invasion
• The big strong guy who ran away earlier, reappears just in time
• All the Avengers fight an army
• Iron man makes a grand gesture, seemingly sacrificing himself but doesn’t, proving he is not a self absorbed, narcissistic asshole, even tho he spends the entire movie showing that he is