Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

bugsmoran29 John Steed, with his bowler and umbrella, reminded me of great deal of Raymond Barry in "Bat Masterson," with his cane and bowler. Both men were debonair, intelligent and dangerous when pushed. Unfortunately, Bat didn't have a Cathy, Emma or a Tara to assist him. Patrick Macnee' John Steed was the epitome of 'British cool' during the Swinging sixties. Emma Peel (Dame Dianna Riggs) was priceless as Steed's karate- savvy companion. I watched this classic television program back in the Sixties and to a boy growing up in rural Wisconsin there seemed no more of a mod-magical world than the city along the Thames. The avengers was "Batman," "James Bond" and The Beatles all rolled into one.

Master Cultist The Avengers started life as a fairly ordinary mystery series, with the main character being Dr. Keel. However, with the introduction of Honor Blackman in series 2 the format changed somewhat, with the focus now on John Steed, and his relationships with his leading ladies. The series also began to become more adventurous, dealing increasingly with the weird and the surreal, particularly in the later years with Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson.Personal preference is that the Rigg years were the best the show ever produced, although I also enjoy the Linda Thorson shows. As a result, I have to own up and say that the first three seasons are not taken into consideration when giving this rating and review as my knowledge of them is insufficient.Overall, a great show that has really stood the test of time. Well worth a look.

ShadeGrenade 'The Avengers' is one of the most successful television shows ever made in Britain, and stands up extremely well forty years later. It starred Ian Hendry originally as 'Dr.David Keel', a medic turned investigator after his fiancée is killed by the underworld. His partner 'John Steed' was played by Patrick Macnee. Initially, Steed was a trenchcoat-wearing spook no different from a thousand others, but as the series progressed he evolved into the suave, bowler-hatted, umbrella-carrying secret agent we all know and love, the quintessential gentleman spy. When Hendry dropped out, they replaced him with Honor Blackman as the karate-chopping 'Mrs.Cathy Gale'. The show took off.Honor left after two seasons to co-star in the Bond classic 'Goldfinger'. After a false start with Elisabeth Shepherd, the producers sensibly cast Diana Rigg as 'Mrs.Emma Peel'. Of all the actresses to have played his sexy sidekicks, she was the one who made the greatest impact. Her arrival coincided with a move onto film, and the plots got wilder!The pair would be called on to solve the most outrageous crimes imaginable, bringing them into contact with fiendishly clever diabolical masterminds.The new-look 'Avengers' was a smash hit in the U.S.A. precisely because it made no attempt to pander to American tastes. From the very moment the classy opening titles and marvellous Laurie Johnson theme tune burst onto the screen, it has a polish that positively dazzles.Where else would you get to see Ronnie Barker training cats to become assassins, a fight where the protagonists wear anti-gravity boots, bird seed spilling out of a dead man's chest, Clive Dunn killed by a 'Jack-In-The-Box', Paul Eddington regressing to childhood after touching a bouncy ball, John Cleese as a collector of eggs bearing the faces of clowns, a computer that writes romantic fiction, invisible spies, Venusian death-rays, rain-making machines, man-eating plants from space, amnesia-inducing milk, guns that destroy nothing except wood, British Rail ticket collectors out to take over the country, miniaturisation machines, underground cities, a village where for a price you can commit murder and the locals provide you with an alibi, and an assassination bureau masquerading as a dating agency. Nowhere except 'The Avengers'.If you've never seen an episode, give it a whirl. You'll like it.Rigg left in 1967 and the unknown Linda Thorson took her place as 'Tara King'. The Thorson series is in my view the highpoint of the show. But in America it was badly scheduled and ended after 32 episodes.'The Avengers' returned in 1976 as 'The New Avengers', teaming Steed with Gareth Hunt's 'Mike Gambit' and 'Joanna Lumley's 'Purdey'. Two seasons were made.The Rigg shows were repeated by Channel 4 in 1982 at the ungodly time of 12.55 a.m. on Sundays. However, it proved so popular it was eventually promoted to peak-time Sunday evening. Recent repeats have taken place on Sky's now-defunct Granada Plus, and B.B.C.-4. In 1998, 'The Avengers' was made into a movie starring Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, and Sean Connery. Though not well received at the time, it has developed something of a cult following. A campaign is presently underway to secure a Director's Cut D.V.D. release.I loved 'The Avengers' as a boy, and love it still. It gets better the further away from the '60's we get.

bribabylk I loved this show as a kid, but never got to see any of the Honor Blackman eps, and am going through them now, three at time, via rented DVDs from Blockbuster Online. A lot of the criticism leveled at these early eps is true, but there's also a lot to like. The most frustrating thing about them is the poor sound; this combined with the accents, unfamiliar idioms and fast-paced delivery causes me to have to rewind certain scenes three or four times in order to determine what the heck they're saying. Also, the fight choreography would greatly improve over subsequent seasons; take "The Grandeur that was Rome" for example. Ugh! However, the writing tends to be a little more literate and the tone more dramatic; there's more genuine emotion. In contrast to what other posters have noted, I find the supporting characters in those early eps to often be more well-developed than the leads! I loved the speech given by Mrs. Turner toward the end of "Mandrake"; a woman's life has rarely been more wittily and succinctly summarized. The characterization in "Second Sight" is very good as well. What's also interesting is that the show was freer to be a bit more racy in those early eps than when they were being produced with an eye for the American market. There was a lot more innuendo-laden dialogue; it seems like there was an illicit tryst going on in the background of almost every plot, and there was a great deal more skin. Steed even strips down to his tighty-whities in one episode! Emma Peel will always be my favorite of Steed's partners, of course, and I have a lot of affection for daffy, Steed-infatuated Tara, with her signature action-somersault move, but the real Avengers aficionado shouldn't cheat him or herself by passing up the Cathy Gale shows. Clumsy fighting but great words. And even though I've read that they're of dubious quality, I'd also be curious to see the season two eps, in which Martin King, Venus Smith and Cathy rotated as Steed's partners. How intriguing! As a kid watching the Diana Rigg / Linda Thorson shows on cable in the early 70's, I never would have guessed the Avengers had such a rich, deep history.