It's big, silly, and entertaining, and even its most naked franchise ambitions feel fun rather than frustrating, because they're so blatant.

Sadly, the rot sets in just over the halfway mark when the action loses its identity of fustian heroism and degenerates into another arcade video game of mundane destruction. A pity.

Enough deaths here for a more restrictive rating.

Just another of many save-the-world notions put upon an elite company of inexplicably powerful superheroes to clash with equally nonsensical super-villains.