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Movie Reviews of The New Avengers '76
Movie Review: Purdey, Gambit and Steed rock! great fun!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was a very impressionable child when Honour Blackman first don the Avengers leather. She created a self-assured woman, a role model. Diana Rigg refined it more with Mrs. Peel. I loved Linda Thorson as Tara King, but the series was showing wear by then. Not Thorson's fault, just rather limp scripts. So when they announced they were coming back and this time with Steed not having one partner but two and one a man, I was slightly resistant to the notion.However, the New Avengers was just that, NEW...the series was very fresh, updated and the three leads, Patrick Macnee, Joanna Lumley (AB FAB) and Gareth Hunt (Upstairs Downstairs) work well together. The chemistry between Steed and Purdey, and Purdey and Gambit sparkles. The stores are less the 'fantasy' type of the old Avengers. This is more high energy spy vs spy. THe set is the first year - 13 episodes and are some of the best. I did miss having EMILY in this packet - one of the lighter and funniest they did - but well, next group!!
THREE HANDED GAME is a wonderful race to stop a spy with a 'brain drain' from robbing three curiers of the secrets they carry - watch that shuffle-buck-wing!! GNAWS is great romp with their take off of JAWS in the sewers! TARGET! is a great race as someone at the target range has devised a way to knock off Britain's super spies, and it's Steed to the rescue to save Purdey's life. EAGLES NEST finds the trio off to Scotland to foil neo-Nazi group. My Favourite is The LAST OF THE CYBERNAUTS?...a tribute to the old Cybernaut episodes of the original series.
Just great fun and a delight to finally have them on DVD. Now if they will just put Return of the Saint on DVD....
Movie Review: THE NEW AVENGERS RULE THE UNIVERSE!
Summary: 5 Stars
WOW, I cannot believe it! FINALLY! We now have the first complete 13-episode season of The New Avengers available here in the U.S. THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE! Thank you, A&E!I once never thought that anything could top the original Avengers. But to me, The New Avengers are actually superior to the original series. Don't get me wrong. I love Steed and Mrs. Peel. I even love Steed and Tara King. However, the New Avengers have something additional that the original Avengers never had: Gareth Hunt as Mike Gambit. (This is one slick, tough dude who is seriouly underrated!)
Placing the charater of Mike Gambit in the middle of the standard Avengers duet was a stroke of pure genius. Gambit brings a cool, silent-but-deadly ingredient to the mix that makes the series pack a bigger punch as a whole . . . especially in the action department.
The great thing about Gareth Hunt is that he doesn't compete with Patrick Macnee. Rather, he compliments Macnee's sophistication and charm with cool youthful bravado.
Finally, The New Avengers have Joanna Lumley, one actress who is PURE DYNAMITE as the chic, sexy and deadly Purdey. You cannot take your eyes off this lady and together: Steed, Purdey and Gambit make this series the best series in television history!
RUN . . . DO NOT WALK . . . TO PURCHASE THIS VIDEO! HIGHLY, HIGHLY , HIGHLY RECOMMENEDED!!!
Movie Review: The greatest show of all time!
Summary: 5 Stars
A month and a half ago I got the first season of The New Avengers, and truly I tell you this was the greatest two season show of all time and in my opinion the greatest show of all time period! I have watched the 13 episodes and enjoyed them all. I have begun watching it all over and I never seem to get tired of it. And can't wait to get the second season soon! I am well pleased with this DVD box set of The New Avengers!
My favorite episodes from season 76 are Target, The Eagle's Nest, and Faces, Dirtier by the Dozen.
The show was made in the 70's and yet still holds out well today. It is timeless, love the locations, the filming style, the music, all of it. The New Avengers was a big international hit, and was also a show ahead of it's time. Some of it's episodes about cloning, robots, ruthless villains wanting to bring harm to the world or control it, and other stuff could be related to today's current events.
But the biggest thing was the The New Avengers themselves Steed, Purdey, Gambit, good repore between them and they were fun to watch. Another big, big thing was style, this show had a great style that I have never seen being matched by any other show.
It's the best and it's my favorite show of all time!
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.
Movie Review: A genuine class act
Summary: 5 Stars
I have to agree with the other posters who rate this revival more highly than its revered 1960s predecessor -- which (even with the inestimable Diana Rigg in the cast) has not dated very well, too often coming across as rather arch and quaint, and often cringingly twee.THE NEW AVENGERS, on the other hand, manages to maintain the sense of playfulness and fun that made the earlier series such a hit, while incorporating the hard-hitting action and genuine sense of menace that Seventies movies and television honed to perfection.
Patrick MacNee's iconic John Steed has here been graduated to a kind of elder statesman role, which suits him better; Gareth Hunt's rougher-edged Mike Gambit is a roguishly charming replacement; and there are simply no words for Joanna Lumley's Purdey. The actress's indelible portrayal of Patsy Stone in ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS may be the role cited someday in her obituary, but Purdey is every bit as memorable -- coy, smart, seductive, kittenish, deadly; an irresistible paradox.
Buy it, buy it, buy it, buy it!
And yes, definitely -- bring on Season Two.