Avengers: Endgame Thoughts With Spoilers!

I think it's an excellent film, and probably the best installment of the MCU to date.  Some thoughts:

1)  Fat Drunk Thor.

2)  Ms. Marvel is hardly in it.  (There's even a very forced moment where she literally says "I'll be away for a while.")  And that's fine but she does nothing essential but for showing up at the end with literally hundreds of other heroes who could probably manage to do what she does.  And I liked Captain Marvel but is there any reason she's been created other than the boot up for the Kamala Khan version?

3)  Tony gets the hero's ending he deserves but wow, Captain America's wrap-up is truly superb, even calling into question whether the whole "Life of a Superhero" is worth it.  Tony is no doubt the center of the Avengers and he will be missed, but damn if Steve Rogers doesn't manage to remind us why it's nice to believe there are good guys and gals out there willing to fight for us.

4)  It didn't feel like it was three hours long, which is a Very Good Thing.

5)  I don't think anyone will be completely satisfied with choices as to who gets serious screen time.  I like Nebula in all her B-list glory, but here she's essential to the plot in ways that might disappoint those wondering why Spiderman, or Black Panther, or Doctor Strange, or Peter Quill don't get more love from the camera.

6)  Jeremy Renner is serviceable, at best, as always.  (Yes, I am officially a Hawkeye Hater.)  I think it's a minor slip to show him willing to commit suicide for being such a bad, terrible man.  But, as a bad, terrible man he's killing Mexican drug dealers and Japanese mobsters.  I didn't buy it.

7)  It's impossible not to speculate as to the next generation of Avengers.  Tony's daughter?  Check.  Hawkeye's daughter?  Most definitely.  After that, it gets a bit iffy.  Maybe the final Guardians of the Galaxy will bring someone to the table?

8)  Speaking of which, the lack of a credits sequence seemed fitting but -- the show is over for the heart and soul of the team.  But that was definitely the sound of a hammer hitting an anvil a few times at the end, no?

9)  A (Fat Drunk) Thor and Rocket buddy film?  Make it happen!