Marvel's The Avengers (2012)

Cast: Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner

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Description: Continuing the epic big-screen adventures started in "Iron Man," "The Incredible Hulk," "Iron Man 2," "Thor" and "Captain America: The First Avenger," "Marvel's The Avengers" is the superhero team up of a lifetime. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as SHIELD, finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.

Release Date: 5/4/2012

Genre: Action-Adventure

Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Offical Website: http://marvel.com/avengers_movie

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Release Dates:

Country	Release Type	Date
United States	Theatrical Wide Release	5/4/2012
United Kingdom	Theatrical Wide Release	4/26/2012
Spain	Theatrical Wide Release	4/27/2012

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05/08 @ 12:00 AM

If you are a Marvel fan, then The Avengers will feel like Christmas. Thanks to the merry doings of the director, Joss Whedon, all your favorite characters are here, as shiny and as tempting as presents under the tree.

Anthony Lane, New Yorker

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05/04 @ 12:00 AM

Ultimately, it all comes back to Whedon: His clear vision for each character and how they might be profitably intermingled his unexpected knack for action choreography his funny, tender, immaculately constructed script.

Christopher Orr, The Atlantic

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05/03 @ 12:00 AM

Its primary purpose is not to explore or subvert the superhero movie, but to lay the groundwork for more of them.

Dana Stevens, Slate

A slow start, a single star performance surrounded by indifferent acting and an onslaught of computer effects that range from seen-it-all-in-\Transformers\ to a whole sky full of spectacular stuff in the midtown Manhattan climax.

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

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.

Bob Mondello, NPR

Whedon knows how to be self-aware without getting overly cute about it. He has fun highlighting each character's neurosis and knows which personalities clash to greatest effect.

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News

Every now and then, director Joss Whedon executes a quirky camera set-up to assert that the film was created by him and not a team of marketing executives.

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader

I had a blast at The Avengers.

David Edelstein, NPR

This film is stylish, intelligent and, one hopes, influential on the next generation of superhero movies it should leave a lasting legacy.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Audiences have been eagerly anticipating this first all-hero extravaganza for years. The wait was worth it.

Claudia Puig, USA Today

The light, amusing bits cannot overcome the grinding, hectic emptiness, the bloated cynicism that is less a shortcoming of this particular film than a feature of the genre.

A.O. Scott, New York Times

A slickly packaged, effects-driven smashup.

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

There's great entertainment in \The Avengers\ - big bold, action-filled silliness with just enough human spirit to sell itself. This is a comic book movie done right.

Tom Long, Detroit News

It works because Joss Whedon never loses sight of the fragile humanity of the characters, even in their special effects brawls. It works because somebody finally got The Hulk's blend of rage, guilt and bull-in-a-chandelier-shop fun right.

Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service

\The Avengers\ is done well by Joss Whedon, with style and energy. It provides its fans with exactly what they desire.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Whedon, a pop-genre magician best known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is a master of viewer manipulation - because he never gives up his own seat in the crowd.

Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle

The performances are so well-pitched in The Avengers, meshing with such vividness and ease, that it's tempting to overpraise the good but not great movie that surrounds them.

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

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.

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

It's two-plus hours of visual brawn, unexpected heartbeats and welcome humor.

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

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05/02 @ 12:00 AM

Whedon is the key reason why this $220-million behemoth of a movie is smartly thought out and executed with verve and precision. It may be overly long at two hours, 23 minutes, but so much is going on you might not even notice.

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times