Will "The Avengers" suck?!

[Al_The_Strange]

Okay, we're getting down to it. "The Avengers" will be out next year, combining several Marvel heroes into one glorious epic. The hype's been starting since at least 2008, when they started injecting "Iron Man" and "The Incredible Hulk" with snippets of Nick Fury and Shield stuff. Now they've got several movies in place that describe the origins of each participating major hero and all the Marvel lore is being pieced together rather cohesively.

This got me thinking...with this much hype and this much investment in time money and resources, what if the movie winds up sucking? What if there's too many heroes to juggle in one story? What if the stakes become so high that the filmmakers start cutting corners and making mistakes? Or, what I fear the most, what if the executives decide to butt in on the project to protect their investment (as was already done in "Wolverine" and "The Green Lantern")?!

So, as the release date comes closer, what do you think? Will the movie live up to its expectations, or is it too ambitious to succeed?