Saw this today, following an impromptu decision by my daughter and her mate. I'm not the target audience, not a big superhero movie fan at all. This won't convert me. It plays with 9-11 imagery at the start, but never really does anything to justify raising those visual tropes - if you buy into the notion that the movies are the modern-day versions of the stories we tell to try and make sense of the world, I think you can reasonably expect some effort to engage with those events beyond visual references. Nope. Not here.
Likewise, I can see the attraction of superhero stories as a way into exploring what it means to be human, and there are portentous attempts to raise issues around having a superhuman living among us, but these scenes are, at best, to echo the unkind remark about Stephen Fry, the stupid person's idea of what a clever film looks like.
It doesn't even work on the level of populist popcorn pic: the set pieces are dull and repetitive. There is no sense of jeopardy or even inventiveness. Oh, and there's an evil Russian and a final monster straight out of the Middle Earth casting agency.
It spends a lot of time trying to set up the showdown between the eponymous caped caperers, but the moment of reconciliation is laughably simplistic. Actually, I'll shut up at that point: laughably simplistic sums it up.
There is a blockbuster film out there at the moment that is a witty and entertaining take on the odd couple movie while still raising some remarkably profound questions about society, fear, and the American dream, but this ain't it. So which film am I thinking of?
Go see that instead, you'll have a much, much better time.