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The Avengers (1998) -- Two British agents (John Steed and Emma Peel) team up to stop Sir August De Wynter from destroying the world with a weather changing machine.
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Writers (WGA):
Sydney Newman (television series The Avengers)
Don MacPherson (written by)
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Release Date:
14 August 1998 (USA) more
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Mrs. Peel, we're needed. more
Plot:
Two British agents (John Steed and Emma Peel) team up to stop Sir August De Wynter from destroying the world with a weather changing machine. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 9 nominations more
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Who let the air out? more (428 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Ralph Fiennes ... John Steed

Uma Thurman ... Emma Peel

Sean Connery ... Sir August de Wynter
Patrick Macnee ... Invisible Jones (voice)

Jim Broadbent ... Mother
Fiona Shaw ... Father

Eddie Izzard ... Bailey
Eileen Atkins ... Alice
John Wood ... Trubshaw
Carmen Ejogo ... Brenda

Keeley Hawes ... Tamara
Shaun Ryder ... Donavan
Nicholas Woodeson ... Dr. Darling
Michael Godley ... Butler
Richard Lumsden ... Boodle's Porter
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language.
Runtime:
87 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Sean Connery, the original James Bond on film, co-stars in this film with Uma Thurman, the second Emma Peel. 'Diana Rigg', the original Emma Peel, co-stars with George Lazenby, the second James Bond, in _On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)_. more
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Revealing mistakes: When Steed and Mrs. Peel are drinking tea in the car, from the way the sun shines through the cups it is clear that there is no liquid in the cups. more
Quotes:
Sir August de Wynter: Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Game K N B: (2006-11-28)" (2006) more
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27 out of 38 people found the following review useful.
Who let the air out?, 18 August 1998
Author: Rowan-4 from Sugarhouse, Utah

Uma Thurman's catsuits aside, "The Avengers" is one of the flattest movies to come down the pike in a long time.

The failing Sean Connery isn't really the villain in this movie, the true villains are a director who thought he could "improve" on the original, and an editor who really shouldn't have been let out of film school.

Fiennes and Thurman do an adquate job with what they were given, which wasn't much, and then the editor took half of that away.

Connery got one half-choked off rant, (all of which you see in the trailer) and then hid in the leftover set for the power supply from the floating city in "The Empire Strikes Out" (Er -- "Back"). A pathetic effort from a formerly stellar actor.

Eileen Atkins was rather fun as Alice, Steed's minder, and the guest appearance by Patrick Macnee was somewhat amusing.

As for the writing, well.... I think (despite the credits) they actually gave the job to a couple of public school lads who rather thought that they were being clever.

Overall, not worth the money spent to make it, nor the $6 I paid to see it. One star, mostly for some rather nice, if somewhat generic, cinematography.

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