The New Avengers '76
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Actor: Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Maurice Marsac, Patrick Macnee, Pierre VernierWriter: Sydney Newman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, 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
Movie Reviews of The New Avengers '76
Movie Review: 60's British Charm in the 70's
Summary: 5 Stars
"Weren't the 70's a drag!" I know the New Avengers didn't have the 60's charm of the orginal and most 70's dramas were korny. But for fans of the Avengers it was a breathe of fresh air seeing some super spies battling it out again with British flare. There are some theme changes. This series, the bad guys are generally more Cold War villians (Russians) instead of independant Bond-like villians of the original. And nothing against Gareth Hunt, but I think this series would have been better with just Steed and Purdy. Most of the time Purdy is just fending off Gambit's needless advances.
DVD wise the series is ok. You can tell it isn't digitally remastered but that's understandable for a lower volume production. I always wish for these A & E releases to have more special features than just production stills.
The worst part of the remake: Steed is often portraid as an aging womanizer instead of s charming sofisticate like in the orginal.
The best thing: it is nice to see the orginal Steed in action one last time. It actually overcomes any downside of the series.
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 KaveneyAction & Adventure DVD Video
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