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It's a shitty bootleg, but here's the teaser for Joss Whedon's The Avengers that'll play (A) after Captain America's end credits, (B) at Comic-Con later this week, or (C) at both of those things, the latter ad nauseum. I'm guessing a better version will hit the web when the official version comes out, but until then, squint your way through this. Thanks to Grant for the heads up.

ALSO: Perhaps because the strategy worked so well for the mega-flop Green Lantern, Captain America isn't screening for critics until after our press deadlines, so we won't have a review of it in this week's paper—but the Mercury's resident Captain America superfan, Ezra "Bucky" Caraeff, will have a review online on Thursday. That's when we'll also have a review for the Justin Timberlake/Mila Kunis joint Friends with Benefits, which, as far as I can tell, is about two extremely attractive people doing it, and thus will probably be pretty excellent.