Avengers: Endgame (2019)

It's five years after Infinity War and the world is coping rather poorly with half the population disintegrating. Weirdly, they prioritized the erection of an expansive memorial honoring "the vanished" over day-to-day garbage collection...

But Ant-Man pops back into the world from the quantum realm hours after he entered, as far as he knew. So, he theorizes that time works different there and maybe they could time travel and get everyone back? Apparently Janet Van Dyne's brain wasn't big enough to work out how NOT to age 30 years in there, but dummy Scott Lang pulled it off...? Whatever.

And "whatever" was pretty much my feeling about this movie. We lost about a dozen heroes and were coping with that reality... so getting them all back feels like a cheat. And, no, killing off a couple of biggies doesn't make it feel like any less of a gratuitous trick. And the end battle, where a series of heroes were attempting to get the glove with the stones across the battlefield was just incredibly dumb asset management. Take one of the stones OUT of the glove so that, in case it's dropped, it's no longer a viable weapon. I mean duh.

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