The Avengers (2012)
The Avengers is a 2012 science fiction movie directed by Joss Whedon, with a running time of 2h 23m. It stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans and Mark Ruffalo.
Loki arrives on Earth with a stolen power source and an army waiting behind him, and Nick Fury decides the planet needs more than an agency to answer it. He calls in the people he has been quietly tracking: Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, Thor, Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton. They do not get along. Joss Whedon writes and directs the sixth Marvel Studios film, spending as much time on the friction between these outsized personalities as on the wreckage they cause. The banter is the point, right up until the sky opens over Manhattan.
Quick answers
What is The Avengers about?
Loki arrives on Earth with a stolen power source and an army waiting behind him, and Nick Fury decides the planet needs more than an agency to answer it. He calls in the people he has been quietly tracking: Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, Thor, Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton. They do not get along. Joss Whedon writes and directs the sixth Marvel Studios film, spending as much time on the friction between these outsized personalities as on the wreckage they cause. The banter is the point, right up until the sky opens over Manhattan.
When was The Avengers released?
The Avengers was released on 25 April 2012.
How long is The Avengers?
The Avengers runs 2h 23m.
Who made The Avengers?
The Avengers was directed by Joss Whedon.
Where can I watch The Avengers?
The Avengers is available on Disney+, Amazon, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch The Avengers
Stream: Disney+
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home
Buy: Fandango at Home
Official site
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Cast
- Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man
- Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America
- Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / The Hulk
- Chris Hemsworth as Thor
- Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
- Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton / Hawkeye
- Tom Hiddleston as Loki
- Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson
- Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill
- Stellan Skarsgård as Selvig
- Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts
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A few thoughts on The Avengers
The team-assembly rush translates cleanly to Mass Effect 2, which recruits a squad of proud misfits for a suicide mission and lets their friction carry the story the way Joss Whedon lets his heroes bicker before the fight. On the page, Mark Millar's The Ultimates reworked this exact lineup into the blueprint the film drew from.
Superhero team-ups that keep expanding the same shared universe
The Avengers keeps expanding one shared universe forward, adding new heroes to the roster instead of starting over. Avengers: Infinity War pushes that same team further, X-Men: Days of Future Past does it across two timelines at once, and Justice League gives the DC side of the same idea, while Mass Effect 2 and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance let you build and command that kind of roster yourself.
Movies about the world learning it's not alone, and not ready for it
Nick Fury spends The Avengers convincing a room of skeptics that Earth is not alone and not ready for what's coming through that portal. War of the Worlds and Disclosure Day both stage the same reckoning on a global scale, Project Hail Mary sends one desperate scientist to meet whatever is out there, and Interstellar puts humanity's whole future on the line against a threat this planet cannot solve alone.
Ensembles of outsized personalities who bicker their way into becoming a team
Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, Thor, Natasha and Clint spend most of The Avengers annoying each other before they fight side by side. Redshirts sends up that same dynamic among a spaceship crew who bicker their way through a mission, Old Man's War bonds strangers into a unit under fire, and 20th Century Boys and Space Brothers both follow ordinary friends whose friction turns into loyalty when it counts.
Ragtag crews of misfits who have to learn to work together fast
Nick Fury pulls Tony, Steve, Thor, Bruce, Natasha and Clint together despite the fact that none of them particularly want to be a team. The Expendables and The A-Team run the same setup with mercenaries and specialists, Thunderbolts does it with a crew of D-list antiheroes nobody trusts, and Guardians of the Galaxy and Eternals both turn strangers with nothing in common into a family by necessity.