I don't know what grumpy Kool-aid you guys are sipping, I thought it was better than the first in almost every way.
Would have liked to see a surprise at the end (like a new hero tease) instead of more Thanos tease, but that's alright.
I found Ultron threatening. I found him to be the best movie villain Marvel has done so far, although I feel like his motivations in the final act were poorly explained. I pieced together that he turned the city into a meteor to cause a mass extinction with various vibranium and repulsor based technology, but they could have had a few throwaway lines about it.
Vision and Scarlet Witch were both so, so good. Her accent sucked though (inconsistent) and I hope she loses it in the next appearance. So this whole time I thought Vision was going to be CG...guess he's just a guy in costume. He looked great.
Quicksilver was underutilized and added nothing. Same with Strucker, although he was far less important. And no, Whedon can't possibly make me care about Hawkguy--even though I'll pay attention to Linda Cardellini in anything.
Don Cheadle bores me to tears, but at least he'll have Tony backing him up for the next few movies hopefully. Bring on more Falcon.
And, seriously, I love Whedon's tone 98% of the time, but why couldn't he have just let Cap say "Avengers, assemble!"?
2. They seriously need to stop calling themselves Avengers, they called themselves that 56 times. We get it, you are avengers, don't need to keep reminding us.
Totally disagree, they ARE Avengers, why not say it? I'd sure as hell call myself that.