{"id":50346,"date":"2015-05-05T15:54:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/movie-review-avengers-age-of-ultron-2015.html"},"modified":"2015-05-05T15:54:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T15:54:38","slug":"movie-review-avengers-age-of-ultron-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/movie-review-avengers-age-of-ultron-2015.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Avengers: Age of Ultron" (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It's a giant box of candy where most of it is stuff you really like, but there are a few that don't quite work for you, and you end up eating too much, but you liked it anyway.<\/p>\n

Spoilers (beyond what shows up in the trailers) avoided in the review, but any comments here are liable not to be quite as diligent. You have been warned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nA ★★★★ review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)<\/a><\/span>
\n[I’ve tried to keep direct spoilers to a minimum, but some seepage may have occurred.] The new Avengers movie made a million-zillion dollars this past weekend — and, as a big super-hero romp, it well deserved that money. It’s a bit less clean of a movie than the original Avengers pic — with the inclusion of multiple new key characters, not to mention trying to give each of the pre-existing leads some story time to shine — but it carries on wel…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It's a giant box of candy where most of it is stuff you really like, but there are a few that don't quite work for you, and you end up eating too much, but you liked it anyway. 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