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The hype has been building for years and it couldn't possibly be more deafening at this point.

After a series of summer blockbusters that individually introduced Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America, all these Marvel comics characters come together alongside several other friends and foes in "The Avengers."

With director and cowriter Joss Whedon, they couldn't be in better hands. He's pulled off the tricky feat of juggling a large ensemble cast and giving everyone a chance to shine, of balancing splashy set pieces with substantive ideology. Stuff gets blown up in beautifully detailed 3D in "The Avengers" -- the area in and around Grand Central Terminal, for example, gets obliterated beyond recognition -- but the film always holds together when it comes to narrative.

Whedon keeps a tight rein on some potentially unwieldy material, and the result is a film that simultaneously should please purists (one of which he is) as well as those who aren't necessarily comic-book aficionados. He stays true to the characters while establishing a tone that's very much his own. As he did with the recent horror hit "The Cabin in the Woods," which he cowrote and produced, Whedon has come up with a script that's cheeky and breezy, full of witty banter and sly pop-culture shout-outs.

The back and forth between Robert Downey Jr.'s glib Iron Man and Chris Evans' old-school Captain America is electric, while Downey's more philosophical exchanges with Mark Ruffalo's Hulk help give the film some intellectual heft. Actually, Downey nearly runs away with this whole thing, a tough feat to pull off in a cast full of larger-than-life personalities.

The plot is your basic bad-guy-wants-to-take-over-the-world kind of thing. The preening, effete Loki (Tom Hiddleston), the bitter brother of hunky demigod Thor (Chris Hemsworth), descends to Earth from Asgard, which still has a distinctly '70s cheesiness about its twinkly sci-fi aesthetic. Once here, he steals the Tesseract, the cosmic blue cube that gives its bearer unlimited power, or some such thing.

The no-nonsense Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. -- which was entrusted with the safety of said cube -- springs into action to reacquire it by assembling a dream team of superheroes and other sundry badasses with specialized skills.

Iron Man, Thor and Captain America are summoned. The Hulk's services are needed because the Tesseract exudes a radiation that will help track it, and the Hulk -- despite the threat of his gigantic, green volatility -- knows a little something about gamma rays. (Ruffalo brings a sense of wry bemusement and appealing self-deprecation to this dangerous and misunderstood character.) There's also master assassin Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and super spy Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson).

But because these are superheroes with super powers, they also have super egos. And so a great deal of time is spent having them talk trash and square off against one another to prove who's toughest. Though they might seem like filler, these showdowns let each character have his or her time in the spotlight, and they build some genuine tension. They also represent the adolescent fantasies of every geek in the audience. So in theory, everyone's happy.

Eventually, everyone has to come together for one epic battle against the common enemy in midtown Manhattan, home of Iron Man Tony Stark's latest dazzling architectural creation. It's a cool, high-tech place to stage massive movie destruction, and the climactic battle is dazzling and exhausting. Still, "The Avengers" is at its strongest in its quieter, simpler moments. It works as well when people are talking as when they're fighting. In every regard, this movie truly lives up to its hype.

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