The Avengers
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: August 14, 1998 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
12
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
3
Negative:
16
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A smorgasbord of bad ideas, sumptuously over-realized. Read full review
40
NewsweekDavid Ansen
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
40
VarietyGodfrey Cheshire
What's missing is chemistry: the right blend of seriousness and whimsy, and charmingly compelling interplay between leads Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The Avengers is too enervated to qualify as even a full-scale disaster. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
This new film version, sad to say, is a hollow shell of the original series. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
This big-budget bore looks lovely but is so miscalculated that you can't help but wonder whether anyone involved had ever seen the original. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
This film is an absolute mess. Read full review
25
San Francisco ExaminerBarbara Shulgasser
The movie is a dismal and misguided special-effects romp featuring two of the deadest performances recorded this year so far. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesGene Seymour
So how then do you duplicate a magic aura from 30 years ago? You don't. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
The grasping novelty of the visuals doesn't rival the uncharismatic leads or the hopelessly, unironically banal plot. Read full review
20
Film ThreatTom Meek
There's nothing but a convoluted overcast of story with a monsoon of bad dialogue. Read full review
10
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
It's shockingly inert. Read full review
10
SalonCharles 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
10
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
It's a film to gall fans of the old television series and perplex anyone else. Read full review
10
Washington PostStephen Hunter
In this movie, the sense of charm has been obliterated. Read full review
10
SlateDavid 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
0
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
It's almost fascinating to witness just how lousy The Avengers really is. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
It's a completely botched effort -- botched in its direction, its writing and editing. Read full review
0
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
The incomprehensible leads to the inexplicable which ends in the indecipherable. Read full review
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