Saw it, was meh. My opinion may be clouded by the annoyance of unfortunate seating next to a girl who thought every single thing in the movie was the funniest thing she's every heard/seen. I swear she was laughing more/louder than the entire theater combined, it was awful. I was very prepared for people laughing at the shitty parts, but not for this.
I was surprised. I thought we hit peak super-hero already. In comparison to
other super-hero movies, it seems like a close second to Winter Soldier or X-Men: First Class, for me. Probably somewhere around number 5 or 6 in terms of craft alone. Certainly better than the last few super-hero movies I've seen.
I was more surprised with the audience.
In American cinemas, they typically label certain movies as 'high energy'. It's often a code phrase for 'urban', and I'm sure you can extrapolate from there. On certain releases (Step Up, Fast and Furious, XXX, you get the idea) they increase the amount of staff and security accordingly.
However loud those movies might get, they were nowhere near the amount of 'audience participation' I experienced today. It was an eye-opener. There were people
in costume.
I heard the whole movie theater did a Kamekameha during the last Dragon Ball movie, though, so it just might be the area I currently live in, but man was that audience
pumped. Everyone from five year olds (I guess that's going to be a well-informed kid), the teenaged girls giggling away, and the retirees cussing up a storm behind me.
