We’ve all seen the other Marvel movies right? We’re all up on our “Iron Mans” and our “Thors” and we’re all caught up on the continuing misadventures of Captain America? Because if not then why are you even bothering with this review of the sequel of the biggest comic book movie of all time? Okay, so we’re all on the same page, I am not going to pretend you don’t know the back stories and what not of all the characters, we’ll just jump right into this review of “Avengers: Age of Ultron” without all the unnecessary preamble.

And you know what, that is the same approach the movie itself takes. It starts in the middle of an action scene, with all the Avengers working together as a team to infiltrate some random compound to retrieve Loki’s scepter (introduced in prior Marvel movies). When they do, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) decides he’s going all Cyberdyne on everyone and he uses the power in the scepter to create an artificial intelligence system designed to protect all of Earth and humanity.

But when this program, called Ultron (James Spader, being as James Spader-y as possible), comes online, it immediately decides that in order to fulfill his peacekeeping mission, he must destroy all of humanity so that the next phase of evolution can begin. With the help of a pair of “enhanced humans” (don’t you DARE call them mutants!), Ultron sets out to destroy the world, while the Avengers have to figure out how to stop him.Continue Reading …