Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790738505 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 0790738503 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: June 01, 1999 Running Time: 90 minutes Sales Rank: 42513 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: August 14, 1998
Description: based on the sophisticated, quirky british secret-agent television series of the 1960s. a scientist who develops the means to control large-scale weather changes uses his discovery to wreak evil. emma peele and john steed must stop the villian for person
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Rating: - The Avengers
A good simple "escape" film. I have always found the photography on deserted London streets (or English country roads) intriguing.
Rating: - Who will avenge the audience?
I used to watch the show as teen and would catch it on A&E when it used to come on. Sure it was campy but it was fun to watch. This movie is no such luck. It was doomed from the minute the director screamed action. The whole plot involves some asinine scheme by August De Wynter(played by Sean Connery) to control the world weather. The British secret service assign Emma Peel(Uma Thurman) and John Steed(Ralph Fiennes) to the case. The story is a kind of weak so they throw in a plot twist where one of the head of the secret service(affectionately called "Mother") is in cahoots with Sir Wynter. When you're not laughing at the cheesy dialogue, you cracking up at the hackneyed fight scenes and the overacting by Sean Connery, who seems to have more fun chewing up scenery than we do watching this film. The mechanical bees and the tedddy bear costumes...nice. This movie wasnt pre-screened for a reason and Sean Connery ... Read More
Rating: - unforgivably bad
How can you improve on perfection? The original series with Diana Rigg was one of the best ever. It was campy, perfectly synchronized with the oddities of 1960s design, worldview, and style, and told good, short stories. It was a wonderful world unto itself.
By contrast, this film tries for camp without synching with the times, for an old-fashioned chemistry that it traduces (Emma and Steed had wonderful sexual tension, but everything else was implied, never shown), and for a weird yet believable story. But it fails utterly.
This film is so bad that it is like making a comic book version of a comic book. Not only do Fiennis and THurman utterly lack chemistry, in spite of their great talent, but the plot is simply and stupidly unbelievable. I think that this is the worst tv-remake I have ever seen. That answers the question: you shouldn't try to exploit perfection by slapping together ... Read More
Rating: - I'm Not Afraid To Say I Loved It!
Yes, it looks like it was edited with a chainsaw (blame the studio). Yes, Ralph Fiennes looks like he'd rather be elsewhere. And yes, the teddy bear suits look ridiculous. Guess what? I still love it! This, my friends, is what I call a guilty pleasure. Does it always make sense? Hell no, especially since there seems to be a lot missing (judge for yourself by watching the theatrical trailer). But it's so much fun. Let me say right now that I have never seen the old television series, so I went into this movie a novice. And I was entertained. It's campy, over the top and a little silly. But it's okay. As much as I love this film, I hope someday to see the whole uncut Director's version just to fill in the (many) holes. There are far worse movies out there, trust me, and if you just give yourself over to it, you may be pleasantly surprised.
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