Its actually a good movie.  

You call them “inclusive language choices,” I call them “Jez doesn’t seem to employ any copy editors.” ;)

I’ve never watched pro wrestling in my life and I even I know that heels get views. The awfulness will keep us coming.

Thee Broadway stuff understood the assignment. It was meant to be cringe, and the leaned into it and accepted it. It is not supposed to be anything more or anything less. For that, they get an A. 

If that moment wasn’t written with the “he can talk! He can talk!” “I can siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!!!!” bit from that Simpsons episode in mind, I’ll eat my hat.

It was so on point for modern Broadway\Disney production that it was almost too painful for me to watch.

Ditto, loved how cheesy and corny the whole Broadway production is, which can be seen as a stupid meta thing on Marvel Cinematic Universe itself xD

The look on Hulk’s face after “smash, smash, SMASH” was priceless.  So serious.  Loved the bit, watched it like five times.  Maybe time for #6...

The fact that they cast an actual Broadway star (Adam Pascal) to “star” in the play was a great musical theatre Easter egg. 

If your complaint is “the musical wasn’t that funny” then I think you’re missing the point. I don’t think it was meant to be just “funny.” It was meant to be a cool thing that enriches the setting.

Most of the petulant comments about it I’ve seen are from folks who were upset that the tag didn’t have a hook from some upcoming Marvel property. I personally loved it. It captured how I would imagine the Broadway theater community would interpret the Avengers pretty perfectly (although I have to say that my…

Musical number was a completely fun thing. Don’t know what that owl was about at all. If it was a comics reference it didn’t work, cause everything else that was like that fit in nicely with the story they were telling.

Am I going crazy, or did people want this musical number to be a sincere attempt at musical theatre? It’s supposed to be a cheesy, un-self-aware Broadway showstopper number, designed to make Clint Barton as uncomfortable as possible, and it succeeded on all points. Bravo. (And Adam Pascal was the icing on the cake,…

Even if it wasn’t funny (it was), any excuse to put an Adam Pascal number in your show is a good thing.

Don’t be silly, Barsanti would never write at length about something he knows literally fuck all about!

Either he didn’t watch it or he’s so bad at a job that involves analyzing television that he already forgot that the owl does fly away with the shrunken van. I honestly wouldn’t put the latter explanation past him.

a completely ridiculous Avengers musical number that Marvel Studios definitely thinks is funnier than it actually is. (It’s not not funny, to be fair.)

Ok - I thought I was crazy when I read this because that IS what happens in the episode.  About 32 minutes in.  She shrinks the van, he makes the Scott quip, and then the owl scoops up the van and flies away.