The Avengers Reviews

Movie Reviews

• you don't have to sport a propeller beanie to enjoy The Avengers

  by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]

• what really makes the difference in "The Avengers" is the emphasis on character as the film's storytelling core

  by Kenneth Turan [Los Angeles Times ]

• what passes for a plot is simple enough, even if frequent references to the characters' back stories may leave you feeling that you missed a prescreening plot briefing

  by Joe Morgenstern [Wall Street Journal ]

• what makes this anticipated film so absorbing is how the heroes' internal battles are often more pronounced than their external ones

  by Jon Niccum [Kansas City Star ]

• there are similarly overdone combat sequences

  by A.O. Scott [New York Times ]

• the plot is deftly arranged so that each of these guys has to embrace or reject a particular facet of their characters in order to get the job done

  by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]

• 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

  Review rate : B by Peter Rainer [Christian Science Monitor ]

• the eyes are often delighted, the senses are consistently engaged/assaulted and the funny bone is occasionally tickled, but, obviously, our emotions emerge wholly unscathed

  by Rick Groen [Globe and Mail ]

• the banter has zip, the effects are fun, the climactic battle is decently spectacular, and if the 3-D is mostly expendable, there are a few scenes where it adds a nice kick

  by Bob Mondello [NPR ]

• makes the evil side of the equation seem suitably overwhelming

  Review rate : A- by Keith Phipps [AV Club ]

• its 3-D-converted visuals look mighty fine, and it racks up a goodly amount of photogenic property damage as the story progresses

  by Amy Biancolli [San Francisco Chronicle ]

• it's two-plus hours of visual brawn, unexpected heartbeats and welcome humor

  by Lisa Kennedy [Denver Post ]

• it might more accurately be described as the opening-night cocktail party at a corporate superhero retreat

  by Dana Stevens [Slate ]

• here, the feeble 9/11 allusions and generic paranoid conspiracies go nowhere

  by Peter Keough [Boston Phoenix ]

• beneath the garish costumes and day-saving deeds, modern movie superheroes tend to be a pretty ornery and dysfunctional lot

  Review rate : B+ by Chris Vognar [Dallas Morning News ]
• Reviewed by Ann Hornaday [Washington Post ]

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