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Jasonic's Favorites: The Avengers

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Hello, and good evening, Internet! Of all my reviews, I feel like this is the one that's most overdue. I once reviewed the first Captain America and Iron Man both on my old blog, "Jasonic Reviews Favorite Movies" -- the first Cap also on this one -- but never got around to this movie prior to me abandoning it. Now I might say my time as come to review my favorite, if not the BEST, MCU Phase 1 movie! Released in 2012, The Avengers was the first big superhero crossover movie that really committed to the idea of bringing several big and some lesser known superheroes together on one screen -- at least the ones that Marvel could have the rights to at the time. The hype surrounded this idea was huge since, at the time, almost nothing like a shared movie universe existed between various properties with films like X-Men and Spider-Man off in their own universes owned by 20th Century Fox and Sony respectively. Upon its release, box office and critical performance really demon