Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 301
Fresh: 277 | Rotten: 24
With a script that never forgets its heroes' humanity and no shortage of superpowered set pieces, The Avengers lives up to its hype -- and raises the bar for Marvel at the movies.
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Critic Reviews: 48
Fresh: 40 | Rotten: 8
With a script that never forgets its heroes' humanity and no shortage of superpowered set pieces, The Avengers lives up to its hype -- and raises the bar for Marvel at the movies.
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Marvel Studios presents Marvel's The Avengers-the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.
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Cobie Smulders
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Stellan Skarsgård
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Samuel L. Jackson
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Paul Bettany
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M'Laah Singh
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Jenny Agutter
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Donald Li
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Harry Dean Stanton
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Robert Clohessy
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Fernanda Toker
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Damion Poitier
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Don Cheadle
Col. James Rhodes
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All Critics (301) | Top Critics (48) | Fresh (277) | Rotten (24) | DVD (6)
Never underestimate the entertainment value of the Hulk Smash.
Top CriticIf you are a Marvel fan, then The Avengers will feel like Christmas. Thanks to the merry doings of the director, Joss Whedon, all your favorite characters are here, as shiny and as tempting as presents under the tree.
Ultimately, it all comes back to Whedon: His clear vision for each character and how they might be profitably intermingled; his unexpected knack for action choreography; his funny, tender, immaculately constructed script.
A spectacle in the grandest sense of the word ...
Whedon, a pop-genre magician best known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is a master of viewer manipulation - because he never gives up his own seat in the crowd.
The performances are so well-pitched in The Avengers, meshing with such vividness and ease, that it's tempting to overpraise the good but not great movie that surrounds them.
The Avengers does have is a solid gold structure that doesn't buckle under the weight of its gargantuan expectations and overflowing cast.
Smart, witty, funny, action-packed and surprisingly cathartic.
The bigger and goofier it gets, the more fun it becomes.
A fun light-hearted summer blockbuster that is weighed down by a forgettable villain.
If you're not already a fanboy, it'll turn you into one. It is honestly the most fun I have had at the movies in a long, long time.
After two-and-a-half hours of world-threatening chaos and world-saving derring-do, you leave the theater satisfied, but without so much as a single memorable image (or idea) lingering in your mind.
Fast-paced superhero series sequel will be fun for fans.
Joss Whedon empties everything at his reported $225 million disposal to assault the eyes, ears and intelligence with one of the stupidest comic book tales ever put to film.
Whedon must balance the competing storylines and screen time of the actors. He does it nicely, injecting humour and a touch of drama into the action -- and all without so much as a Tesseract to his name. Some assembly required, and delivered.
One of the ten best films of 2012.
But one of the most fascinating moments in the picture occurs when Captain America, referring to Thor, notes: "There's only one God, ma'am. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that." Ah, monotheism versus paganism. Can they exist side by side?
Whedon has delivered that rare action-packed, special-effects spectacle that is relentless in its eagerness to please and successful beyond its goal.
It's Summer's Mightiest Movie. Nuff said.
When all is said and done, Avengers is all sound and Nick Fury, signifying nothing.
Was Marvel's ambitious dream for a shared cinematic universe truly worth it? In my opinion: Most definitely.
The Avengers is one of the best superheroes movies in a long time and is likely to become a classic of the genre. You would need to really hate comic book movies not to get a kick out of this.
The Star Wars of a new generation.
"Marvel's The Avengers" is a visual comic book and it doesn't aspire to be anything more than that. As a film version it succeeds-one is tempted to say-MIGHTILY.
It really is quite something that [Whedon] was able to take so many characters and put them into a movie where nobody gets left behind.
It really is an astounding achievement - a film that juggles an unenviable number of elements; combining what we've seen before, slotting them together and then adding enough depth, action and humour to make this a remarkable standalone film.
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Movies Like Marvel's The Avengers
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- Thor: Be careful what you say, he is my brother!
- Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow: He killed 80 people today.
- Thor: He was adopted.
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- Agent Maria Hill: Since when did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?
- Tony Stark/Iron Man: Last night.
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- Tony Stark/Iron Man: That man is playing galaga! He thought we wouldn't notice, but we did.
- Tony Stark/Iron Man: How does fury even see these?
- Agent Maria Hill: He turns.
- Tony Stark/Iron Man: Sounds exhausting.
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- Bruce Banner/The Hulk: That man has a brain full of cats. You can smell crazy on him.
- Thor: Have care of how you speak. Loki is beyond reason but he is of Asguard. And he is my brother.
- Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow: He killed 80 people in two days,
- Thor: He's adopted.
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- Clint Barton/Hawkeye: How'd you get him out?
- Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow: Cognitive recalibration
- Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow: I hit you really hard on the head
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- Clint Barton/Hawkeye: Have you ever had someone take your brain and play? Pull you out and stuff something else in? Do you know what it's like to be unmade?
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