This is an elaborate production, but all the jazzy sets and explosions in the world can't disguise the story's complete lack of urgency.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
The Avengers is too enervated to qualify as even a full-scale disaster.Read Full Review »
So how then do you duplicate a magic aura from 30 years ago? You don't.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Charles Taylor
The film flails incoherently from set to set, trying to be kicky and madcap and pop, but with no sense of the show's casual acceptance of the absurd.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
In this movie, the sense of charm has been obliterated.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
There's something reassuring about the fact that The Avengers is so rotten: proof yet again that people with piles of money can hire wizard production designers but can't fake class.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
It's a film to gall fans of the old television series and perplex anyone else.Read Full Review »