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Marvel's the Avengers Reviews
The comedic timing, coupled with his ability to maintain the authenticity of the characters, is worthy of praise. The Avengers delivers a popcorn feast that's the perfect summer kickoff.
| Original Score: B+ | Sep 8, 2017
Downey's Stark/Iron Man steals the show because the actor is capable of making the tritest dialogue sound wonderfully witty, but the CGI effects are amazing and, despite its length, the film is very enjoyable.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 7, 2015
This will be loved by genre fans, when all is said and done/ But at two hours forty, you may find it numbs your bum/ Seriously, more attention to character could have made it a lot more fun/ And now I have said all that, I believe my poem is done.
| Aug 24, 2014
If we must have these box-office behemoths, then at least the writer-director, Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is a lively controlling influence.
| Aug 24, 2014
Of course it's about one hundred times brighter than Transformers and Michael Bay's imbecilic spinoffs, and should keep multiplexes everywhere in its competent grip. But I didn't love it.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2014
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.
| Jun 20, 2013
Whedon manages all these disparate threads confidently, his script a model of self-control and restraint that's far from typical for the genre.
| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2012
Never underestimate the entertainment value of the Hulk Smash.
| May 8, 2012
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
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.
| May 4, 2012
A spectacle in the grandest sense of the word ...
| Original Score: B+ | May 4, 2012
It's easy to turn NIck Fury's blind eye to the movie's flaws because at the end of the day The Avengers packs big explosions, bigger personalities and Hulk-sized punch lines.
| Original Score: 80/100 | May 4, 2012
...there aren't many writer-directors as talented as Joss Whedon. Indeed, it's the writing that sets this film apart from the crowd, in harmony with perfect casting, first-rate visual effects, and other key ingredients.
| May 3, 2012
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.
| Original Score: 4/4 | May 3, 2012
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.
| Original Score: 3/4 | May 3, 2012
The film is good enough to keep all the Marvel Comics crazed audiences out there deliriously happy while keeping the rest of us earthbound types in moderate thralldom.
| Original Score: B | May 3, 2012
It's two-plus hours of visual brawn, unexpected heartbeats and welcome humor.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 3, 2012
Its primary purpose is not to explore or subvert the superhero movie, but to lay the groundwork for more of them.
| May 3, 2012
A slow start, a single star performance surrounded by indifferent acting and an onslaught of computer effects that range from seen-it-all-in-"Transformers" to a whole sky full of spectacular stuff in the midtown Manhattan climax.
| May 3, 2012