Ok, here we are, The Avengers. Director Joss Whedon's culmination of everything Marvel Studios has been working toward for the past five years, since 2007's Iron Man ended with a cameo in which Nick Fury offered to Iron Man membership into something called the Avenger Initiative. The Avengers, or Avengers Assemble as it's being called in the UK, presumably to distinguish it from the 60's British television series and 90's movie of the same name, currently holds a 94% approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and is being touted as the comic book movie of the year, and quite possibly the decade. By the end of its opening weekend it has beaten out Harry Potter for the opening weekend sales record by more than $30M. So what did I think of The Avengers? I could sum it all up in a single word: disappointing.

You ever notice how when you grow up some things aren't as quite as you remember them being when you were a child? Some things are, for example I still love a lot of the cartoons I loved in the 80's when I was a kid. But some things just aren't. For another example, I loved the TV show Knight Rider when I was a kid. It had a talking car and everything. It was a great show. I even had an RC KITT car. Then, when I had grown up, I happened across Knight Rider on the Sci-Fi Channel after I had gotten out of the Army. The show changed.