Latest blockbuster feels more superfluous than superheroic

From left, Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. reprise their roles as Captain America and Iron Man in The Avengers. WALT DISNEY PICTURES PHOTO

By Rebecca Cusey, Special Contributor The Avengers Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action throughout, and a mild drug reference Months from now, when we’re bloated and gorged with yet another explosive summer blockbuster, we’ll look back on the late spring as a more innocent time, a time when a movie like Marvel’s The Avengers brought out the best in America, when children looked forward to the opening with anticipation, when fanboys raved on message boards, when critics lauded it to the skies. After enduring the oh-so-serious [...]

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