You know that really annoying feeling when you spend ages typing something, and then editing it to get it right, and then something goes wrong with your browser and you lose all your work?

Yeah? You know that feeling?

Well, I've already written this review once but due to some silly php server error, I lost it. Grrrrrrr! Okay, here we go again...

The bottom line (which we always try to get to first) is that Avengers Assemble is a good movie. It's worth watching yourself, it's a good option for a youth group movie night and it's also probably a good resource to use as a discussion starter or a session introduction.

It's a film which says a lot about the fight between good and evil. It says a lot about fighting for what you believe in, a lot about teamwork and a lot about individual gifts and abilities.

The movie focuses on a team of superheroes brought together by Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D - Samuel L. Jackson - to fight off a potential invasion of the earth. They include Captain American, Thor, Ironman, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye. The movie is apparently the culmination of a few different superhero movies of the last few years. Quite a treat for comic-book fans, but yet still really good for people like me who frankly don't know their Marvels from their Batmans!

One of the most powerful scenes comes toward the beginning of the movie. Loki, the baddie, announces that he wants to rule the world and he goes off to Germany to begin his mission. After a scrap at a posh reception, he herds a load of people into a square and makes them kneel before him. Not wanting to die, they comply, but one old man gets back up again in protest. It's a great metaphor (in a movie overflowing with great metaphors) for what we serve and worship in the world, and what we refuse to subject ourselves to. Peer pressure... False Gods and all that.

Loki decides to kill the man to teach the others a lesson. He directs an energy bolt in his direction only to have Captain America turn up in the nick of time and deflect the bolt away, saving the man's life. All very cool.

Captain America - who had been frozen since the Second World War - then quips 'the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing over others, we ended up disagreeing.'

And that sequence is a great microcosm of the whole movie - good metaphors, good action sequences and a few laughs.

Go see it. Really... 

Though, having chatted to a lot of young people and youth workers lately, I gather that most of you already have.