Absolutely amazing

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

As a fan of the Emma Peel adventures from the 60's I feel this captures the spirit of that series. Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes are not Diana Rigg or Patrick McNee but are more than good enough in their roles. The plot is suitably off kilter far an Avengers episode and would have fitted right in to the TV show.

I had heard that this was one of the worst movies ever made based on a TV show. I admit that in the first twenty or so minutes, but then it got really stupid. A subplot features Sean Connery running a secret society where everyone is dressed as giant technicolor teddy bears. I am not making that up. I had already known about this from the Nostalgia Critic's review, but I was still pretty shocked when I saw it! This features some organization that doesn't allow women in their ranks.That's kind of odd, seeing as how one of their leaders is a woman...who is named "Father"...for some reason? The special effects are quite bad, especially the giant insects (yeah, those are there too). I admit to knowing virtually nothing about the original TV show. Yeah, this isn't Marvel's Avengers, but an Avengers based on a British show. I don't know if things like the bear costumes were in the original series. This movie was very boring with an inspiring plot and characters. *1/2

This big-budget flop is not without its good points, seeing as it contains enough offhand weirdness and odd situations to appeal to most bad movie fans. Although its about as far away from the original television series as you can get, there's this retro '60s thing going on with the film which makes it pretty amusing to watch. Although the fact that the cast members are obviously taking everything as a joke does get on your nerves after a while, I consider this to be an enjoyable failure and I must admit that I pretty much enjoyed some of the individual scenes.You know you're in for a crazy time with the film's opening, which sees Steed walking down an apparently normal English street only to be attacked by a number of surprise assailants. For example, at one moment a whistling milkman smashes two empty bottles together to use them as weapons as he lunges as Steed. This exceptionally odd beginning sets the campy tone for the rest of the film, which is not for all tastes it has to be said.Packed with cheesily overemphasised dialogue, lots of one-liners and innuendos worthy of a Bond movie, THE AVENGERS has the benefit of a huge budget to include lots of nifty (but hardly convincing) computer effects. These include an attack by a swarm of mechanical bees, characters walking in see-through bubbles and the climatic "storm within a building" scene which is sufficiently loud and over-the-top enough to be a crowd-pleasing event. Elsewhere, we have the ever-odd Eddie Izzard as a mute henchman, one of the least threatening ever to grace a cinema (or television) screen, and bad guys dressed up as giant multicoloured teddy bears in order to disguise their identities.Ralph Fiennes (looking a lot like a young version of Peter Cushing) essays the role of the straight-faced John Steed, and is pretty good; Uma Thurman plays the leather-suited Emma Peel: one wonders why she agreed to be in such a fantastic movie again after the failure of BATMAN & ROBIN but I guess she's a glutton for punishment. Sean Connery is the non-threatening chief villain, and has had enough experience with Bond villains in order to know how to play it, but his performance is somewhat weak. Elsewhere, we have Jim Broadbent as the wheelchair-bound Mother, leader of the agents, and a funny turn from Patrick Macnee as an invisible agent (!).The major problem is the obvious cutting that went on with the film after initial test screenings, which undoubtedly make events confusing at times. In my mind this just adds to the weirdness. See it for yourself to find out how.

In my point of view, I thought it was funny when needed,action-packed and had really good scripts, but I don't really see how people don't like this movie. I have watched it, and I kind of enjoyed watching it. Now all I wish (and I hope no one will judge) they could make a second movie because in my opinion...I LOVED IT! After seeing all of the negative reviews, I just want to say,its not all that bad. I don't really see the problem with this movie, so I am just going to say, maybe people don't like it because it's a little different to what we usually watch, but it kind of fits in with the Inspecter Gadget and those 90's Action-Hero type movies. I'm not tying to get at the people who don't like this film, but I am simply asking that you give in to it a bit more.