The New Avengers '76

The New Avengers '76
by Desmond Davis, Donald W. Thompson, Ernest Day, George Fournier, Graeme Clifford

The New Avengers '76
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Actor: Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Maurice Marsac, Patrick Macnee, Pierre Vernier
Director: Desmond Davis, Donald W. Thompson, Ernest Day, George Fournier, Graeme Clifford
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 650 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video

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Movie Review: LOVE IT!
Summary: 5 Stars

I own almost all the avengers sets now - and was running out of things to watch. I wasn't sure about the new avengers, but I read some reviews that said it was still some good Avengers.
So I chanced it. At first I didn't like the new set-up, with 3 people and Steed just seems to be a mentor. But, I really started getting into it, they still, have the crazy off the wall stories - and Purdy and Gambit have great chemistry together.

Summary of The New Avengers '76

Sometimes dismissed as a pale descendant of a great original, The New Avengers deserves a second look and is perhaps best considered as a largely successful attempt to re-imagine its predecessor for 1970s audiences. Patrick Macnee was never the most convincing of action heroes, and the decision to make his John Steed the supervisor and mentor of two younger agents was a sensible one--Steed's virtues are style, wisdom, and fortitude rather than physical prowess. Gareth Hunt's Gambit has an unattractively smug side, but also has charm. Joanna Lumley's Purdey is one of the most attractive heroines of genre television, astonishingly leggy and beautiful. Those who only know her later incarnation as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous will now understand why such a fuss is made over her. The script team overlaps heavily with that of the original series; the new show has the same quirkiness, only occasionally varying it with a rather darker Le Carr?-esque complexity or sudden outbreaks of Hammer Horror. If it lacks some of the sheer style of the original, that is a reflection of its period--the 1970s were less visually imaginative than the '60s. Tightly plotted and imaginatively cast with interesting guest stars, it is only with The Avengers that The New Avengers suffers by comparison. --Roz Kaveney

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