Awaiting Avengers

This humble geek is very excited for this week an insanely long awaited film finally hits theatres near you! Yes i'm talking about Marvel Studios latest offering "The Avengers" or as it is annoyingly called here in the UK "Avengers Assemble" - why I hear you ask, well that's because of a rather annoying and very rubbish old british tv show which also went by the name "The Avengers" and subsequently inspired a movie of the same name back in 1998 starring the ever delightful Uma Thurman and that annoying Voldemort guy wearing a bowler hat!

Marvel's Avengers however is going to be a work of cinematic genius, I say that confidently because of how much faith I have in the man behind it - Joss Whedon! As a huge and lets face it eternal fan of Buffy i've watched everything the man GOD known as Whedon has produced since and i've not been dissapointed yet. When you combine that genius with the Marvel universe it's safe to say that this is going to be the event of the year for this geek so I thought it only appropriate to blog before and after to fully do it justice.

I honestly don't know what part to be excited about most, the big screen appearance of more than one of my favourite superheroes in one film, the extensive eye candy for me to drool over. The knowledge that hidden somewhere in this film there are likely to be some casting choices or cameos from the Whedonverse to satisfy Whedons compulsions to join all his projects together somehow. The presence of How I Met Your Mother star and all round awesome Canadian Cobie Smulders is part of the cast or the fact it's being released in the UK before it gets released in the US!

It's all very exciting and it's only a few days away, this thursday I shall be taking my seat with a friend and fellow Marvel fan who no doubt is just as excited as I am about this momentous cinematic event.