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Avengers Assemble (12A)

Avengers Assemble (12A)

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Nick Fury and the international agency S.H.I.E.L.D. bring together a team of super humans to form The Avengers to help save the Earth from Loki & his various membered army.


The critical consensus

Big, brash and very funny, Joss Whedon’s Avengers Assemble is equal to the sum of its parts – and for once, that’s no faint praise. Suit up.

****(*)Jonathan Crocker, Total Film, 20/04/2012

As the first of this summer’s three superhero blockbusters (the others are The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man), Avengers sets the bar impressively high, and that it does it with a smile is all the more refreshing. A lot of this stuff has been done before, and recently – but never quite as well as this.

****(*)Robbie Collin, The Telegraph, 20/04/2012

There's not much to see after they've sorted out the pecking order, but until then it's fun to watch Whedon pitch his heroes against each other. Child's play, maybe, but entertaining all the same.

***(*)(*)Henry Barnes, The Guardian, 20/04/2012

The Avengers have been assembled and, for the most part, they fit together superbly. A joyous blend of heroism and humour that raises the stakes even as it maintains a firm grip on what makes the individual heroes tick.

****(*)James White, Empire Online, 20/04/2012

Josh Whedon has pulled together an action movie of real wit, fun and spectacle, with some remarkable setpieces.

****(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 22/04/2012

Thanks to the skills of Joss Whedon – and a fantastic Hulk – Marvel’s ensemble superhero caper is witty, exciting and fun.

****(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 26/04/2012

A plot twist or two wouldn’t have gone amiss, and the picture is overlong, but this is a welcome start to summer blockbuster mayhem.

****(*)Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 25/04/2012

All in then, a super, heroic effort by Whedon that should please the fanboy and non-fanboy audience alike. With superhero inflation now running higher than ever, Whedon and every other superhero film director will have a hard job topping this.

****(*)Alison Rowat, The Herald, 26/04/2012

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.

***(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 27/04/2012

With this many crimefighters on the same screen, it’s little surprise this is largely a terrifically enjoyable experience – one that’ll please both fanboys and the public at large.

David Edwards, Daily Record, 27/04/2012

It's an enjoyably absurd and absurdly enjoyable extravaganza, both delirious and surrealist.

****(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 26/04/2012

The film’s not a game-changer in the same way as Chris Nolan’s Batman reboot, but then it never tries to be – it’s simply a well-executed, highly enjoyable summer popcorn movie, which is exactly what it should be.

****(*)Niki Boyle, The List, 27/04/2012

Struggling to find any truly iconic moments, the film doesn’t linger long in the mind and will surely be much diminished on the small screen.

Adam Lee Davies, Little White Lies, 24/04/2012

So, is it as good as we all hoped it would be? Damn right it is.

Ryan McNeely, The Edinburgh Reporter, 29/04/2012

Whedon can't quite make Avengers Assemble seem anything more than a marketing novelty, principally because he hasn't come up with a story that's big enough to squeeze in this many larger-than-life characters.

Nicholas Barber, The Independent, 29/04/2012

The special effects are impressive but not especially imaginative, and the film is unduly protracted.

Philip French, The Observer, 29/04/2012


Features about Avengers Assemble (12A)

Online anger erupts over blockbuster's 'racelifting'.

Emily Wight, Genevieve Roberts, The Independent on Sunday, 08/04/2012

Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned

Tom Hiddleston, The Guardian, 19/04/2012

Why it's good to be so bad

Alison Rowat, The Herald, 26/04/2012

Is Marvel Avengers Assemble the worst film title ever?

David Cox, The Guardian, 27/04/2012

Avengers Assemble: they've put aside egos to save the world

John Hiscock, The Telegraph, 27/04/2012

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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