Avengers: Age of Ultron – blisteringly big banter, brawls and brio

Time to Marvel as director Joss Whedon delivers pure entertainment

Film Review Marvel's Avengers franchise is such a massive, behemoth of a marketing machine, such a merchandise-heavy, almost decade-long suction of talent, time and money that I want to hate it. I want to say, why don't we spend all that money on independent films? Original stories? Something new, for God's sake! But there's just no denying the fact that nine films later (if one counts the standalone Iron Mans, Thors and Captain Americas) it's still a whole lot of cinema fun."