AVENGERS: Surprised by how much I liked it. Great pop-corn pic. First-rate screenplay. Whedon continues to impress. I discovered Firefly/Serenity only recently. There seems to be a sort of short'n'sweet, pointed comic-book kind of cadence to his writing voice. Everything neatly framed and quipy, expository, or poignant. It must make life a bit easier for the directors.

One niggle, I didn't comprehend the great threat to all earth until about four-fifths of the way through. Two or three quick establishing shots of the Army assembling or crying for blood or finishing up a ravaging of another helpless world might have created a 'Death Star plowing through the galaxy' sort of tension and peril.

MIB3: Liked it as I liked MIB2, but not as much as 1. The first had that fish-out-of-water-nothing-is-as-it-seems quality. J is our avatar as we discover the great deception with him. 2 and 3 necessarily goes over alot of ground already trod.