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Marvel Studios presents Marvel's The Avengers-the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., 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. -- (C) Marvel

Runtime: 142 minutes

Starring: Robert Downey Jr. , Chris Evans , Mark Ruffalo , Chris Hemsworth , Scarlett Johansson

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Reviews - Marvel's The Avengers

CNN.com - Never underestimate the entertainment value of the Hulk Smash. read full review
New Yorker - 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. read full review
The Atlantic - 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. read full review
Film.com - A spectacle in the grandest sense of the word ... read full review
San Francisco Chronicle - 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. read full review
Washington Post - 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. read full review
Christian Science Monitor - 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. read full review
Denver Post - It's two-plus hours of visual brawn, unexpected heartbeats and welcome humor. read full review
Slate - Its primary purpose is not to explore or subvert the superhero movie, but to lay the groundwork for more of them. read full review
Wall Street Journal - 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. read full review
NPR - 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. read full review
Dallas Morning News - 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. read full review
Chicago Reader - 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. read full review
Minneapolis Star Tribune - This film is stylish, intelligent and, one hopes, influential on the next generation of superhero movies; it should leave a lasting legacy. read full review
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Biff! Bam! Boring! read full review
USA Today - Audiences have been eagerly anticipating this first all-hero extravaganza for years. The wait was worth it. read full review
New York Times - 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. read full review
Philadelphia Inquirer - A slickly packaged, effects-driven smashup. read full review
Detroit News - 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. read full review
Seattle Times - It's a first-class production all around, from the acting to the 3-D special effects to the touches of wit throughout. It delivers, in grand style, the thing we demand most from a comic-book movie: fun. read full review

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