Originally posted by -Pr-
I actually thought they did more to flesh out the characters than the first one, personally. True that they couldn't fit as much as they would have liked to, but it still felt like a more personal story to me.
It definitely had more "personal" elements to it, though they didn't really hang together or go very far. Lots of vignettes that didn't amount to actual character relations development, just a bog-standard reset before the end kind of thing.
The worst thing was going in expecting some more story to the development of some of the relationships that this movie - suddenly and out of nowhere - puts forward.
Personally, I did not see the nest coming nor the cosy way even BW is involved.
I can see why Joss Whedon felt it right to decline the offer to write/direct the rest of The Avengers movies.