Joss Whedon has been busy lately. Not only has he been getting his hands bloody with The Cabin in the Woods as producer and writer, he has also stepped up to the plate with his shot at directing a blockbusting Marvel outing. And they don't come much bigger than Avengers Assemble. With four superheroes vying for screen space and three S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to boot. The result could have been a noisy, incoherent mess; that it isn't is a marvel in itself. The two hours plus running length of Avengers Assemble simply flies by, most of the time literally, with enough skull-crunching super-charged superhero face-offs and gravity-defying battles to fill half a dozen similar outings.

Quite simply this is the best fun I've had watching a film in ages.