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Release Date:
14 August 1998 (USA)
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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
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1 win
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9 nominations
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(17 articles)
Uma Thurman Says Motherhood Is the ‘Best Kept Secret’
(From People - CelebrityBabies. 27 October 2009, 11:00 AM, PDT)
Uma Thurman to Walk Red Carpet For Opening Night of 45th Chicago International Film Festival
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 23 September 2009, 5:09 PM, PDT)
(From People - CelebrityBabies. 27 October 2009, 11:00 AM, PDT)
Uma Thurman to Walk Red Carpet For Opening Night of 45th Chicago International Film Festival
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 23 September 2009, 5:09 PM, PDT)
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Falling for the old "edit out what the test audience didn't like" trick
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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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Rated PG-13 for brief strong language.
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87 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Philippines:G |
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
South Korea:12 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-12 |
France:U |
Germany:12 |
Iceland:10 (original rating) |
Iceland:12 (video rating) |
Netherlands:12 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:T |
Sweden:11 |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:12 |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #36085)
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After terrible test screenings, the film was hastily recut from its original 2.5-hour running time to the 89-minute version released to theaters. This explains why there are so many continuity/narrative errors in the film.
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the scene in the boardroom with the teddy bears, De Wynter says that anyone who wishes to leave can do so, and a payment of one million dollars will await them. However, he clearly mouths the word "pounds" instead of "dollars."
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Quotes:
Sir August de Wynter:
Rain or shine, all is mine!
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References "The New Avengers: Target! (#1.6)" (1976)
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I AM
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Was this film meant to be satiric in some way? Or was it just a bad film?more
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Oh, wait, that's from Get Smart, not The Avengers.
No matter. As a longtime fan of The Avengers (since childhood), I will say, right off the bat, that this movie did not fail on all levels. If nothing else, the makers of this film understood, at least, what The Avengers was about. This puts them head and shoulders above, say, the makers of The Wild Wild West movie, who had only the most rudimentary (and faulty) knowledge of what made that series an icon of popular American culture.
They might not have been successful in the execution, but they did understand what made The Avengers tick, and if the studio heads hadn't ordered extreme and desperate editing, we might have been able to see more of what the filmmakers imagined.
Two scenes stand out as perfect examples of this understanding: When Mrs. Peel tries to escape by running endlessly down an Escher-like staircase, and when Steed and Mrs. Peel walk on water in giant bubbles. Sean Connery's eccentric megalomaniac (so much more interesting than a serious, conservative megalomaniac) fit right in with the The Avenger's roster of enemies.
Whatever sense of fun the movie had (and The Avengers tv series never seemed to take itself too seriously; does anyone remember Steed being shrunk to the size of a mouse and jabbing a villain in the ankle with a fountain pen?) was destroyed when the nut jobs at the studio fell for the old "edit out what the test audience didn't like" trick, and put a botched film on the screen. Too bad these studio honchos have such weak nerves and such short memories; will they never learn?