STORY:
Loki is back and he's creating more havoc on Earth, forcing Nick Fury to create the Avengers to combat the threat.
POSITIVE ELEMENTS:
The heroes are very heroic, risking their lives to protect the civilians of Earth. Tony Stark/Iron Man, the most selfish of the bunch never shies from putting his metal-clad self in danger. Black Widow tries to free Hawkeye from Loki's brainwashing and Thor trying to make his brother stop the warmongering.
SPIRITUAL ELEMENTS:
Loki and Thor are both mentioned as gods throughout the movie, but as we learned from Thor, they not actually gods, they are just aliens from another dimension. At one point, Cap tells the Black Widow that "There's only one God, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that."
SEXUAL CONTENT:
Black Widow and other women are dressed in tight, sometimes low-cut clothing. After the Hulk turns back into Banner, we see him sitting in a debris field, naked. (We see him from the waist up).
VIOLENT CONTENT:
We see people get punched, kicked, thrown, bashed, smashed, clunked,
clinked, pounded, kneed, stabbed, shot (with arrows, bullets and ray
guns) and vaporized. When we're introduced to Black Widow, she's tied to a chair for the
purpose of being interrogated by a Russian general and his goons. A man
slaps her across the face, and the general walks toward a table filled
with instruments of torture. He says she'll need to deliver a message to
someone, then he picks up a pair of pliers and says, "You may have to
write it down," suggesting he plans to pull out her tongue. Black Widow
promptly turns the tables, beating up and knocking out the majority of
her interrogators (mostly while still tied to her chair).
When the Black Widow is questioning Loki, he says that he'll make someone that the Black Widow loves to kill her "slowly, intimately, in every way you fear, then he'll wake up just long enough to see his good work. Then when he screams, I'll split his skull."
PROFANITY:
There are five or six uses each of "h‑‑‑" and "d‑‑n," and one or two each of "a‑‑," "p‑‑‑," "b‑‑ch" and "b‑‑tard."
OTHER NEGATIVE ELEMENTS:
Tony offers Loki a drink before pouring himself a glass of whiskey. Tony
asks Bruce if he stays under control with the help of "a huge bag of
weed."
CONCLUSION:
It is an excellent movie, I'd recommend it to anyone who loves superhero movies. At times, it does get a little grim, but the humor stops it from becoming too grim. I give it a 5 out of 5 stars.
