This movie's got a truckload of style, a bunch of funky fashions and mod retro-fun, a decent amount of action, but less than I would have expected, some cool special effects and slick gadgeteries, a quick runtime, but a hole-filled plot line that's just...read the complete Avengers, The (1998) review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
It’s hard to recommend anything about The Avengers, a banal movie taken from a clever television series. The crisp, wry situations of the 60s television series simply fail to develop in this inane screenplay. Inspired casting may have saved the film...read the complete Avengers, The (1998) review at Films on Disc (Stuart J. Kobak)