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Joss WhedonScénario:
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Seamus McGarveyMusique:
Alan SilvestriActeurs·trices:
Robert Downey Jr., Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Clark Gregg, Lou Ferrigno (plus)VOD (5)
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Lorsque Nick Fury, le directeur du S.H.I.E.L.D., l'organisation qui préserve la paix au plan mondial, cherche à former une équipe de choc pour empêcher la destruction du monde, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye et Black Widow répondent présents. Les Avengers ont beau constituer la plus fantastique des équipes, il leur reste encore à apprendre à travailler ensemble, et non les uns contre les autres, d'autant que le redoutable Loki a réussi à accéder au Cube Cosmique et à son pouvoir illimité... (Walt Disney Company France)
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Critiques (17)
Je n'ai pas du tout aimé les films avec Iron Man ; ceux avec Thor, ça allait ; ceux avec Hulk, j’en suis fou ; Hawkeye – inconnu au bataillon ; et Captain America, je n’ai encore rien vu avec lui. Mis ensemble, ils forment un escadron de choc que j’ai adoré au point que j’ose qualifier Avengers de l’un des meilleurs films d'action de ces dernières années !
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In the weight class of superheroes who, instead of psychotherapy sessions where they spend two hours figuring out their superhero identity, manage everything by letting their powers speak, preferably in a pretty fierce, loud, and explosive way, the Avengers actually have no competition far and wide. For the first hour, they tease each other with humor, and they use it together against the alien invasion. Kudos to Whedon for dividing up the roles precisely and giving everyone exactly the space they need. Most importantly, it's all done inventively (camera tricks) and it’s imaginatively (funny inserts even into the serious scenes) shot. [My only criticism goes to Loki. Hiddleston isn't so bland anymore because now he’s a charismatic bastard whose character portrayal by the writers falls a little short. Edit: After the second screening, this criticism no longer applies either.]
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With my girlfriend, we were looking forward to Avengers. What's nice is that the creators put together actors who really play Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, or Loki. They even surprised me by casting the superb Cobie Smulders in one of the roles, whom we really like. Overall, we can't say we weren't excited, we were looking forward to it a lot. We enjoy these comic adaptations, even though it's practically the same old song for the millionth time. Except this time, it's not about a specific character, but a whole bunch of superheroes. It kind of feels to me like Hollywood doesn't know what else to film. Because the story is just average, and if it wasn't for the great combination of humorists, either in the form of Iron Man or Thor, I might have started to get bored. Okay, the effects were great, the action was awesome, but that's about it. I thought about it a bit and realized that maybe we had high expectations. Avengers present themselves as a really big movie. However, a big movie from the world of comics probably only matches Watchmen. It manages to be far different in every aspect than movies with superheroes usually are. Avengers are essentially a recycling of all characters stuffed into one movie with a bunch of good action scenes, but no innovation. In any case, we were entertained, and that was the purpose of such a movie. I just don't know if it will be able to entertain me in the sequel.
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This is war! Though the superheroes here are self-centred weirdos (like the Watchmen), they know what to do when the world needs them and they don’t spend a lot of time thinking it over (unlike Superman). The Nordic bruiser with a hammer and theatrical tendencies, the scientist who turns green from time to time, an action figure brought to life – perfect products of American war propaganda, otherwise known as heroes of the Marvel universe. In line with the target audience, all of them were placed in the nerdy world of Tony Stark (i.e. the protagonist of the franchise’s two commercially most successful titles). The exaggerated pop-culture lens through which Thor and Captain America are viewed protects the film from being too serious, without giving the impression that it’s actually about nothing. Getting the audience emotionally involved in the plot is the main objective of both Whedon, who needs to convince viewers, and Fury, who has to more firmly unite the heroes. This is actually a purely pragmatic goal, a work task, so to speak, so there is no needless sentimental blathering or crying. The death of one of the more important characters ends the self-destructive sizing-up of egos and the plot can then shift to the oft-mentioned war of “us” versus “them” (in the end, the Avengers are ultimately just more weapons of mass destruction, except for the emotions...). This doesn’t mean that the preceding hundred (or however many) minutes didn’t have anything to offer beyond the action scenes and Stark’s one-liners. It is a joy to see how consistently, and without annoying repetition for the thick-headed, the film’s creators use every piece of the provided information, thanks to which we don’t have to figure out for ourselves how any given character knows this and that. The first third of the film contains the gradual, cleverly connected introductions of the individual superheroes (or, more precisely, their introduction to the scene, as most of them were previously introduced in separate films). This is followed by the confrontational second third, where Whedon is clearly in his element – as he did in Firefly, here he conducts a group of individualists onboard one ship). Thanks to their abilities and the film’s budget, only the conflicts that arise between them are significantly weightier. The necessity of suppressing individual idiosyncrasies in favour of the team forms the core of the narrative, as is pointedly illustrated by the last shot with the emblematic A. This involves putting together money (Stark), science (Banner), idealism (Rogers) and moral ethos (Thor), and getting all of the heroes with their different performance styles and the slightly different style of directing of “their” scenes (the Captain with his old-fashioned patriotism; the Hulk, unpredictable like a horror-movie monster; Thor and his theatrical sense of grand tragedy; the conversationally comedic Iron Man) in the same boat (both literally and figuratively). The Avengers’ primary objective is to coordinate these various styles due to the necessity of close combat. I thought that roughly the first two-thirds of the film were very good entertainment, but nothing extraordinary. The final action-packed bacchanalia of the final third, and especially the two indescribable and, for such a massive mainstream film, boldly self-ironic scenes with a pissed-off Hulk prompted me to give not just a satisfactory rating, but an enthusiastic rating. These are pretty shallow reasons, I know – I’ll leave the more sophisticated ones for films that don’t offer attractions like a one-eyed Samuel L. Jackson with a bazooka. Next time, I would like to see less techno-fetishism and more Scarlett Johansson playing the first-ever superheroine who can be taken seriously, because she only feigns fragility and emotional weakness for “work” purposes and has to tame her partner in order to get him back. 90%
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I went to the 9:30 pm screening, after a very physically exhausting day, and I told myself that if this film manages to entertain me enough to keep me awake, I will give it five stars, and here they are. Now seriously: Avengers is a perfect blockbuster with great sense of humour, incredible chemistry between the characters and amazing action. If you are not looking for the brooding of Batman or the ambition of the Wachowskis (or anything “more”), and you only want good fun at the cinema, you can’t do better than this, it has no competition among the light summer blockbusters. And I’m saying this as someone who didn’t like too much the previous Marvel films and is also not a member of Whedon’s fan club. But there’s one little quibble: Next to the other superheroes, Black Widow and Hawkeye look so out of place and meek. And it’s also weird to see Auntie Robin in SHIELD’s control centre. Hulk/Banner rulez.
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