Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 296
Fresh: 273 | Rotten: 23
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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Robert Downey Jr.
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Chris Evans
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Mark Ruffalo
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Chris Hemsworth
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Scarlett Johansson
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Jeremy Renner
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Tom Hiddleston
Loki -
Clark Gregg
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Cobie Smulders
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Stellan Skarsgård
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Samuel L. Jackson
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Gwyneth Paltrow
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Paul Bettany
Jarvis -
Alexis Denisof
The Other -
Tina Benko
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Jerzy Skolimowski
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Kirill Nikiforov
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Jeff Wolfe
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M'Laah Singh
Young Girl -
Rashmi Rustagi
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Powers Boothe
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Jenny Agutter
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Arthur Darbinyan
World Security Council ... -
Donald Li
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Warren Kole
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Alicia Sixtos
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Jesse Garcia
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Maximiliano Hernandez
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Dieter Riesle
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Kenneth Tigar
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Walter Perez
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Harry Dean Stanton
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Josh Cowdery
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Ashley Johnson
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Katsumi Komatsu
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Yumiko Komatsu
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Momoko Komatsu
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Robert Clohessy
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Enver Gjokaj
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Fernanda Toker
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Andrea Vecchio
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Robin Swoboda
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Brent McGee
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Jamie McShane
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Michael Zhang
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William Christopher Steve...
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Romy Rosemont
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James Eckhouse
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Damion Poitier
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Don Cheadle
Col. James Rhodes
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All Critics (296) | Top Critics (48) | Fresh (273) | Rotten (23) | 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.
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.
Whilst Avengers Assemble will unquestionably provide two and a half hours of geek nerdvana for Marvel fanboys, it will likely prove too 'big' and comic-y for those who prefer their comic adaptations more grounded.
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.
Marvel's "The Avengers" is the super-hero movie to end all super-hero movies. Why? Joss Whedon.
Without Robert Downey Jr. delivering his witty quips in patented rat-a-tat-tat fashion, The Avengers would largely be a soulless shell of a movie that could be mistaken for a Michael Bay production.
After years of buildup and prequels, "The Avengers" is merely average.
The first great superhero team movie, and a film that captures the essence of what makes the Marvel Universe great.
The filmmakers play a conservative game, not setting out to make a great movie but simply making sure not to screw it up an entire franchise.
Audience Reviews for Marvel's The Avengers
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- The Other: The Tesseract has awakened. It is on a little world, a human world. They would wield its power, but our ally knows its workings as they never will. He is ready to lead, and our force, our Chitauri, will follow. A world will be his. The Universe, yours. And the humans, what can the do but burn?
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- Steve Rogers/Captain America: This is a submarine?
- Bruce Banner/The Hulk: Really? They want me in a submerged pressurized metal container?
- Bruce Banner/The Hulk: Oh, this is much worse.
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- Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow: There was a lot of buzz around here finding you in the ice. I thought Coulson was gonna swoon.
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- Loki: Freedom. Life's biggest lie.
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- Tony Stark/Iron Man: You know, I think we were having a moment.
- Pepper Potts: I think I was having 12% of a moment.
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- Captain America: There's only one God ma'am and I'm sure He doesn't dress like that!
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| Which is better? The Dark Knight Rises or The Avengers?? | 3 days ago | 138 |
| Am I the only one who thought the Avengers was bad? | 10 days ago | 55 |
| Your Favorite Avenger | 3 days ago | 33 |
| A shame. | 10 days ago | 15 |
| The avengers | 3 months ago | 12 |
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