Osgood Peabody wrote:
Judging from my wife's reaction, non-comic book fans will not be as thrilled, but after all the exposition was dispensed with, she enjoyed the second half of the movie.

They did throw a lot at the viewer at the beginning. Someone mentioned earlier in this thread that we could have done without all the early exposition and instead had the audience learn everything along with Hal. I think that would have worked better.