[RiderSkyward]

See I personally agree with Locke about the Avengers. It's an okay film but it doesn't deserve the praise it gets, in my opinion.

On the other hand, I do think that ASM2 was also a bit naff. Not because of too many villains, just personally felt that the writing was a bit poor and where the first film for me nailed the true feeling of a Spider-Man story, this one was a mess tonally.

I can see where your coming from, especially with the comparisons to key complaints with winter solider, but for me winter solider was just a better, tighter film. That said, from conversations with people at work, ASM seems to be hitting all the right notes with the mass public, much in the same way the Transformers films have been shot down by critics to go on to make billions. Then again these are critics, and Orci and Kurtzman seem to now how to make a mass audience leave their brains and just go ooooh purdy, whilst seamlessly disappointing every critic in the room.