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MOVIE REVIEW

‘Marvel’s The Avengers’ is action-packed comic book fun

This is the movie moment comic fans have been waiting for

By Wesley Morris

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 02, 2012

If you like “Marvel’s The Avengers” (there’s almost nothing to dislike; it’s as close as a movie can come to the fantastical reality of a good comic book), stick around for the closing credits. By this point, your grandfather knows to stick around for the scrap of preview awaiting the last disclaimers and thank-yous (the scrap is called an Easter egg). “The Avengers” puts the egg before most of the credits -- it just feels like the natural end of the movie.

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