Avengers: Endgame meta review: The Marvel superhero film is a 'triumph of narrative engineering', 'a celebration of, and goodbye to, the superheroes' that we grew up with, say critics

After a year long wait of the Marvel fans after Avengers: Infinity War, it is almost time to witness the end. Avengers: Endgame international reviews are out and they are mostly positive. As against the 85% Rotten Tomatoes rating that Avengers: Infinity War got last year, Avengers: Endgame has a score of 96% on review aggregator, based on 99 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

Check out what the international media has to say about Avengers: Endgame...

Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian says the film does not deliver the shock of the new, but still the film is triumphant. He writes, "Avengers: Endgame is of course entirely preposterous and, yes, the central plot device here does not, in itself, deliver the shock of the new. But the sheer enjoyment and fun that it delivers, the pure exotic spectacle, are irresistible, as is its insouciant way of combining the serious and the comic. Without the comedy, the drama would not be palatable. Yet without the earnest, almost childlike belief in the seriousness of what is at stake, the funny stuff would not work either. As an artificial creation, the Avengers have been triumphant, and as entertainment, they have been unconquerable."

Leah Greenblatt from Entertainment Weekly states, "With the stakes being no less than the fate of the world (or at least approximately 50% of it), there s an expected urgency to it all, but an underlying melancholy, too not just for everything that s been lost, but for what won t be coming back. After seven years, four films, and uncountable post-credit Easter eggs, the endgame of an era has finally come."

Justin Chang from Los Angeles Times writes, "The mass slaughter at the end of Infinity War felt both colossal and weightless, insofar as you knew it was little more than an epic tease. But the deaths that transpire here are all the more poignant for feeling both carefully considered and genuinely irreversible. To these faintly moistened eyes, Avengers: Endgame achieves and earns its climactic surge of feeling, even as it falls just short of real catharsis."

Angie Han from Mashable says this film is designed for the fans. "Its magic does require some prior buy-in. This is a film designed for fans, stuffed as it is with callbacks, cameos, and Easter eggs. Certain arcs come full circle after years and years; others are revisited and refashioned into something different. Newcomers will likely find themselves totally lost in this tangle of characters and relationships and mythologies. Those who ve been following along for a while now, though, will find much to cheer, cry, or swoon over. At both the screenings I attended, the audience reactions were so loud at certain points that entire lines of dialogue were swallowed up. Which is probably just fine with Marvel: all the more reason for fans to go back and see it a second time," she writes in her review.

The New York Times critic AO Scott writes, "Still, Endgame is a monument to adequacy, a fitting capstone to an enterprise that figured out how to be good enough for enough people enough of the time. Not that it s really over, of course: Disney and Marvel are still working out new wrinkles in the time-money continuum. But the Russos do provide the sense of an ending, a chance to appreciate what has been done before the timelines reset and we all get back to work. The story, which involves time travel, allows for some greatest-hits nostalgic flourishes, and the denouement is like the encore at the big concert when all the musicians come out and link arms and sing something like Will the Circle Be Unbroken. You didn t think it would get to you, but it does."

CNN's Brian Lowry states, "Even with the interlocking nature of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Endgame feels like a triumph of narrative engineering weaving in enough callbacks to earlier movies to delight even the nerdiest patrons. The tone also underscores the extent to which the studio has preserved the comics spirit, while translating them to the screen in a manner unimaginable when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created them."

Have you booked your tickets for Avengers: Endgame yet? Tweet to us @bollywood_life and let us know.