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.

“I tuned into the series finale of Breaking Bad and I’m very confused. Who is Walt? Why should I care about Jesse? These characters are undeveloped and just show up out of nowhere.” — Mr. Speaker Bustus Jurkitt, wretched Disney shill (@justusburkitt) April 27, 2018

"I sat down to watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 2 and I was inexplicably meant to know why everyone was after a man with no nose. Is the society nose-ist? There was no backstory, how am I supposed to know who that boy with the scar even is? Unacceptable."



😒 — Erika Harlacher (@ErikaHarlacher) April 29, 2018

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

“In Game of Thrones Season 8, the characters aren’t introduced, they just show up.” Really, @NewYorker? I love you guys, but it’s as if you have no clue about how modern film-going audiences are experiencing movies. https://t.co/qHrXqiinI7 — James Gunn (@JamesGunn) April 29, 2018

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

You... do you... do you not know how sequels work? pic.twitter.com/Mse39lK8Pf — VƎX is a Satyr (@andreuswolf) April 28, 2018

The New Yorker baffled by the idea of a sequel https://t.co/CSz1q2D0ir — 9 V O L T (@9_volt88) April 28, 2018

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.

"Spectacular" - Boston Globe

"A superhero masterpiece" - LA Times

"Non-stop action" - Chicago Tribune

"Who's the green one, again?" - The New Yorker — CaptainSauce (@TheCaptainSauce) April 28, 2018

The whole entire point is that there’s a D E C A D E of context for these characters and setting. Infinity War can exist because its massive cast of characters can ‘just show up’ and we have extensive understanding for why. This is elitist freshman level of film critique. — Eli (@EliAllen) April 28, 2018

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

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