'The Avengers' may not beat 'Endgame' in terms of sheer scale, but there's a lot here that the climactic instalment of the MCU fails to recapture.

In all fairness, Joss Whedon had the task of not just reinventing the superhero genre, but turning a mixed bag of characters into cinematic icons.

Beyond cementing these heroes place in history, Whedon also handles the pace of the film well and it is the Battle of New York in which everything gels together…