Review – The Avengers (1998)

I don’t know if fans of the original TV series will find this amusing or not, because I can’t say that I’ve ever seen an episode. But I can say that I thought this was one of the silliest movies I’ve ever seen. The English charm is charmless, most of the attempts to be quirky fall pitifully flat, and the “witty” dialogue is made all the more witless and wooden by the efforts of vacuous Uma Thurman and smarmy Ralph Fiennes. Some of the effects are kind of cute, but otherwise this film doesn’t offer much beyond a few appearances by Eddie Izzard in a henchman role. Wish I’d skipped it