Evocative of what, though? To you an me, it means Batman and Superman and DC comics. To Average Joe, as @Dikachu:disqus alluded to above, it sounds like it could be a line of greeting cards.

In all honesty, it's a bit sappy and the general public has no idea what that refers to. "Man of Steel" and "The Dark Knight" are pretty well known titles for Superman and Batman, but "World's Finest" is only really known to comic book fans, so they can't use it assuming people will know what it means. And it doesn't…

That's the best thing that anyone has ever said.

Yeah, I think that's a fair assumption. I figure it'll have the look, texture-wise, of the Man of Steel and Amazing Spider-Man outfits.

The other great thing here is the reaction. It is always fun watching people get legitimately fooled by a magic trick.

I have seen that before, and that is a pretty amazing trick.

Blaine's big dumb stunts are indeed dumb, but I love this kind of stuff. It's simple, mesmerizing, and requires a high degree of skill to pull off. I remember being amazed by his first TV special, aside from the silly floating stuff.

That might be the most foolish thing ever written.

Maybe Johns crawled up his own ass at some point and started to suck, but I'm reading DC comics chronologically and I'm at 2005 or so and I've loved everything I've read by him.

I'm glad to see someone pimping ELR around here. It was an incredibly funny show with a great cast. And you're exactly right about their ability to turn simple situations into genuine loony fun.

I don't us the dislike button just because I disagree with someone, so I just had to post to say that this statement is painfully false.

And the events happen in real time.

There are several things in this post that took me forever to figure out. June? HDTGM? Does "this movie" refer to Twilight, or Daredevil, or Cabin in the Woods, or Cloverfield?

That makes sense. I loved The Dark Knight Rises, so for me it was just the icing on a already delicious cake.

What @avclub-8fc2ff09002228279ec01b19ffb3e6ff:disqus said. Grey suit with black cape/cowl/gloves/boots. Black bat on the chest.

I thought it was less a cheesy giveaway and more a joke. After all, he wasn't actually Robin as in Batman's sidekick. He's the new Batman now that Bruce is retired. I'm still surprised that so many people were angered by such a silly joke.

I'm with you, @bjlanguid:disqus. The biggest problem for me was that the plot was so generic. Thor had to stop some personality-less elves from getting their hands on the whoza-whatsit and using it to destroy the universe. It was a plot cribbed from every sci-fi/fantasy movie ever, and it didn't add any of its own…

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Unique for Marvel, maybe, but it felt like a cookie-cutter fantasy epic to me. I really wanted more and didn't feel like I got it.

I thought on a whole the special effects were very strong, but there were a couple of scenes that seemed like bad green screen work.