Avengers could suck, says Downey

If they don’t get it right, it’s going to ”really suck” – that’s Robert Downey Jr’s opinion of the upcoming “Avengers” pic, a movie that’ll team up a bunch of superheroes like Iron Man, Hulk and Captain America. And he’s right – this could turn out to be one good-looking clusterfuck of a movie. The last thing we need is another bloody “Fantastic Four”.

“It has to be the crowning blow of Marvel’s best and brightest because it’s the hardest thing to get right. It’s tough to spin all the plates for one of these characters”, the actor, set to reprise his role as Tony StarK/Iron Man in the film, tells MTV.

The problem, says Downey Jr, is that characters like Thor and Captain America aren’t as realistic as Iron Man. He’s right – Stark’s a real guy, for all intents and purposes, the other guys are a little, er, out-of-this-world.

“The danger you run with colliding all these worlds is [director] Jon [Favreau] was very certain that ‘Iron Man’ should be set in a very realistic world. Nothing that happened in ‘Iron Man’ is really outside the realm of possibility. Once you start talking about Valhalla and supersized super soldiers and jolly green giants it warrants much further discussion.”

There’s more from Downey on the project here