'The New Yorker' review of 'Avengers: Infinity War' is getting roasted

The New Yorker reviewed Avengers: Infinity War and people are not having it. At all.

The New Yorker movie reviewer Richard Brody wasn't a big fan of Infinity War, with one of his biggest grievances being that it relied too much on the groundwork set in the movies that came before it. Considering Infinity War was advertised as a culmination of 10 years of Marvel movies, the internet was understandably unhappy with Brody's criticism.

Here's the crux of Brody's review that has the internet in a tizzy:

Avengers: Infinity War would make little sense in the absence of its pack of predecessors. Its characters aren’t introduced; they just show up, and their behavior is entirely defined by the template set for them in other movies. Not only does Avengers: Infinity War presume that viewers have seen all the preceding films in the Marvel series but, worse, it presumes that they’ve thought about them afterward.

People took to Twitter to make fun of Brody's criticism, likening him to complaining about starting any series at all on anything except the first movie or season.

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Even Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn weighed in with a roast on Brody's take.

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The internet joked that this is the first time The New Yorker has heard of the concept of sequels.

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Unfortunately for Brody, the movie didn't include a "Previously in the Marvel Cinematic Universe" montage of some of the key moments from previous movies that led up Infinity War, but then again neither did Lord of the Rings: Return of the King or any other movie sequel.

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If you're gonna review a sequel, maybe you should watch the movies that came before it next time.

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