{"id":51252,"date":"2015-05-24T12:05:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T18:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/24\/movie-review-the-avengers-2012.html"},"modified":"2015-05-24T12:05:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T18:05:23","slug":"movie-review-the-avengers-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/24\/movie-review-the-avengers-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "The Avengers" (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because after a day at the Denver Comic Con, what could be better?<\/p>\n

The most recent and previous reviews:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-avengers-2012\/2\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nA ★★★★½ review of The Avengers (2012)<\/a><\/span>
\nWhat better way to celebrate the evening after a day at the Denver Comic Con than with one of the best super-hero team movies of all time? As a (multiple time) rewatch, here are few things that stood out: – Helicarriers seem like awful ideas. They’re amazingly fragile, apparently have minimal internal and external defense systems, and it’s unclear that with globe-spanning quinjets they really need them except for occasional, um, evacuation routin…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Because after a day at the Denver Comic Con, what could be better? The most recent and previous reviews: http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-avengers-2012\/http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-avengers-2012\/1\/http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-avengers-2012\/2\/ A ★★★★½ review of The Avengers (2012) What better way to celebrate the evening after a day at the Denver Comic Con than with one of the best super-hero team movies of all time? 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