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12 out of 100

Overwhelming dislike - based on 19 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 19
  3. Negative: 16 out of 19
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    50
    A smorgasbord of bad ideas, sumptuously over-realized.
  2. Newsweek
    Reviewed by: David Ansen
    40
    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.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Godfrey Cheshire
    40
    What's missing is chemistry: the right blend of seriousness and whimsy, and charmingly compelling interplay between leads Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman.
  4. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    33
    The Avengers is too enervated to qualify as even a full-scale disaster.
  5. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    30
    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.
  6. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    30
    This new film version, sad to say, is a hollow shell of the original series.
  7. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Barbara Shulgasser
    25
    The movie is a dismal and misguided special-effects romp featuring two of the deadest performances recorded this year so far.
  8. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    25
    This film is an absolute mess.
  9. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Tom Meek
    20
    There's nothing but a convoluted overcast of story with a monsoon of bad dialogue.
  10. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gene Seymour
    20
    So how then do you duplicate a magic aura from 30 years ago? You don't.
  11. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    20
    The grasping novelty of the visuals doesn't rival the uncharismatic leads or the hopelessly, unironically banal plot.
  12. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Charles Taylor
    10
    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.
  13. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    10
    It's shockingly inert.
  14. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Janet Maslin
    10
    It's a film to gall fans of the old television series and perplex anyone else.
  15. Slate
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    10
    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.
  16. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    10
    In this movie, the sense of charm has been obliterated.
  17. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    0
    It's a completely botched effort -- botched in its direction, its writing and editing.
  18. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Rick Groen
    0
    The incomprehensible leads to the inexplicable which ends in the indecipherable.
  19. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Keith Phipps
    0
    It's almost fascinating to witness just how lousy The Avengers really is.
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2.1 out of 10

Generally unfavorable- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 4 out of 6
  1. RousieR.
    0
    I'm not such a fan of the original show to say a remake couldn't be made. This attempt, however SHOUDN'T have been made. God awful in every way. Even the leather lost its apeal (pun intended).… Full Review »
  2. MarkS.
    1
    The only reason this movie doesn't get a 0 is because Uma Thurman is in it. And she is utterly wasted. What were her and Connery thinking?
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