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Marvel's The Avengers (2012)

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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.

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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.

Sep 25, 2012

$623.3M

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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.

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If 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.

May 8, 2012 Full Review Source: New Yorker | Comments (8)
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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.

The Atlantic
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A spectacle in the grandest sense of the word ...

Film.com
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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.

San Francisco Chronicle
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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.

Washington Post
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The Avengers does have is a solid gold structure that doesn't buckle under the weight of its gargantuan expectations and overflowing cast.

September 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Trespass
Trespass

Smart, witty, funny, action-packed and surprisingly cathartic.

August 2, 2013 Full Review Source: Daily Herald (IL)
Daily Herald (IL)

The bigger and goofier it gets, the more fun it becomes.

August 2, 2013 Full Review Source: Canada.com
Canada.com

A fun light-hearted summer blockbuster that is weighed down by a forgettable villain.

June 30, 2013 Full Review Source: John Hanlon Reviews
John Hanlon Reviews

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.

June 23, 2013 Full Review Source: Deadspin
Deadspin

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.

June 20, 2013 Full Review Source: Film Comment Magazine
Film Comment Magazine

Fast-paced superhero series sequel will be fun for fans.

June 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

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.

May 26, 2013 Full Review Source: The Patriot Ledger
The Patriot Ledger

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.

April 12, 2013 Full Review Source: National Post
National Post

One of the ten best films of 2012.

January 27, 2013 Full Review Source: Rage Monthly
Rage Monthly

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?

January 8, 2013 Full Review Source: CultureCatch
CultureCatch

Whedon has delivered that rare action-packed, special-effects spectacle that is relentless in its eagerness to please and successful beyond its goal.

January 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Toledo Blade
Toledo Blade

It's Summer's Mightiest Movie. Nuff said.

January 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Austin American-Statesman
Austin American-Statesman

When all is said and done, Avengers is all sound and Nick Fury, signifying nothing.

December 28, 2012 Full Review Source: Twitch
Twitch

Was Marvel's ambitious dream for a shared cinematic universe truly worth it? In my opinion: Most definitely.

October 2, 2012 Full Review Source: ScreenRant
ScreenRant

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.

September 27, 2012 Full Review Source: We Got This Covered
We Got This Covered

The Star Wars of a new generation.

September 26, 2012 Full Review Source: IGN DVD | Comments (6)
IGN DVD

"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.

September 24, 2012 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

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.

September 14, 2012 Full Review Source: Examiner.com | Comment (1)
Examiner.com

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.

September 13, 2012 Full Review Source: TheShiznit.co.uk
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Audience Reviews for Marvel's The Avengers

Lots of explosions which I grow weary of, but it was also plenty of fun. Lots of movies packed into one, sort of like expendables.
August 20, 2013
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Curtis Lilly

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Nick Fury gathers Earth's mightiest heroes to form a response team when Asgardian demi-god Loki returns to spearhead an alien invasion. Joss Whedon is finally given a chance to prove what he can do with the appropriate resources to hand and in Avengers Assemble has created a rip-roaring rollercoaster of escapist entertainment that has all the ingredients of a first class summer blockbuster. Dispensing with his usual formula of wise cracks and pop culture references it begins as a fairly generic action fantasy, but as the heroes are introduced his skill for creating likeable characters and entertaining comic dialogue is framed within a plot which won't win any awards for originality but contains just the right balance of characterisation, comedy and eye boggling set pieces. Once again it is Robert Downey Jr. who is the star of the show but the cast of supporting characters make for an ensemble team that play off each other extremely well and each have just enough room to strut their stuff without overshadowing or clashing with each other. I've always preferred the X-Men comics as I've always found The Avengers a little too establishment-orientated and a bit of a dumping ground for characters not interesting enough to have books of their own, but Whedon's decision to make their first encounter a squabbling pissing contest works really well and the alien invasion is as thrilling as it is visually spectacular. Far, far better than Thor and the Hulk films, and even better than Iron Man, Avengers Assembles fulfils all the promise of the idea and although still not the match of Christopher Nolan's more adult take on the Batman character, is still head and shoulders above the vast majority of its comic strip competition.
May 3, 2012
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    1. Thor: Be careful what you say, he is my brother!
    2. Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow: He killed 80 people today.
    3. Thor: He was adopted.
    – Submitted by Eric K (2 months ago)
    1. Agent Maria Hill: Since when did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?
    2. Tony Stark/Iron Man: Last night.
    – Submitted by Dora D (2 months ago)
    1. Tony Stark/Iron Man: That man is playing galaga! He thought we wouldn't notice, but we did.
    2. Tony Stark/Iron Man: How does fury even see these?
    3. Agent Maria Hill: He turns.
    4. Tony Stark/Iron Man: Sounds exhausting.
    – Submitted by Dora D (2 months ago)
    1. Bruce Banner/The Hulk: That man has a brain full of cats. You can smell crazy on him.
    2. Thor: Have care of how you speak. Loki is beyond reason but he is of Asguard. And he is my brother.
    3. Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow: He killed 80 people in two days,
    4. Thor: He's adopted.
    – Submitted by Dora D (2 months ago)
    1. Clint Barton/Hawkeye: How'd you get him out?
    2. Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow: Cognitive recalibration
    3. Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow: I hit you really hard on the head
    – Submitted by Dora D (2 months ago)
    1. 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?
    – Submitted by Dora D (2 months ago)
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