Your guess would be as good as mine as to exactly what’s supposed to be going on in Jeremiah Chechik’s The Avengers, and that’s e...
This big-screen version of the classic '60s TV spy show The Avengers can be added to the ignominious heap of updates, remakes, and adaptations that...
New York Times January 1, 2000 At a pared-down, barely rational 100 minutes, The Avengers is short but not short enough.
Somebody call Austin Powers, quick!
The movie lets [Fiennes and Thurman] down with a patchwork climax that feels rushed and perfunctory.
Baltimore Sun July 8, 2014 A few things you might consider doing instead of seeing The Avengers: Walking the dog. Turning the compost. Re-grouting the bathtub. Starting your...
ReelViews January 1, 2000 This film is an absolute mess. It looks like the regurgitated leavings of something watchable, a cinematic abomination that got pulled apart and pu...
Salon.com January 1, 2000 Maybe actors should be given some benefit of the doubt when they’re directed by a total incompetent like Chechik, but everyone in The Av...
This Avengers film is so horrendously, painfully and thoroughly awful, it gives other cinematic clunkers like Ishtar and Howard the Duck a goo...
Some bad movies are bold outrages; many others become hits. This one hasn’t the juice to be either.
As the eccentric master villain who controls the weather, even Sean Connery is flat-out terrible, acting high on the hog.
Neither elegant nor macho nor elegant-and-macho, Fiennes is terribly cast; Thurman at least provides the equivalent of a dressmaker’s du...
It’s a completely botched effort – botched in its direction, its writing and editing.
ScreenCrush September 6, 2018 Very terrible.
The Avengers is, without a doubt, the worst movie of the summer.
Austin Chronicle January 1, 2000 The Avengers is out of place in our current cinema of excess; even Mrs. Peel’s laudably skintight catsuit is played far too seriously.
Did anyone really think it would work? Critically savaged, already an embarrassing failure at the box office, The Avengers is a big, spinning...
To answer the question at hand, yes, The Avengers is pretty bad. Not slip-a-disk-running-from-the-theater kind of bad, but a shift-in-your-sea...
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