This is the ‘What The Flick?’ crew talking about The Avengers, which has enjoyed one of the best box office openings of all time. No longer can movies based on comic books be considered geeky.
The statistics speak for themselves here. 93% of critics and 96% of moviegoers have given The Avengers a positive score on Rotten Tomatoes. Which is almost unheard of for a big-budget, mainstream title.
I have read a couple of negative reviews, and people are entitled to their own opinions. But all of the critics who have come out against The Avengers seem to have gone out of their way to hate it, or aren’t fans of the whole genre to begin with.
I can see why some people wouldn’t like the movie, and I guess you do need to have at least some knowledge of the characters beforehand, but most of us have so it isn’t really an issue.
