The Avengers (2012)

What earned the score

• Race-Changed Legacy Casting

  Samuel L. Jackson, a Black actor, plays Nick Fury, a character established in the original comics as white. This is race-swapped legacy casting.

• Black Widow as Female Action Hero

  Black Widow turns the tables on her male interrogators and fights off her captors, even while tied to a chair. The scene casts a woman as the action-hero combatant, using a gender-role reversal within a conventional superhero framework.

Details

When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!

Starring

Robert Downey Jr.Chris EvansMark RuffaloChris HemsworthScarlett Johansson

Director

Joss Whedon

Writer

Joss WhedonJack KirbyZak PennJoe SimonStan Lee

Genre

Science FictionActionAdventure

Release Date

Apr 25, 2012

Parents Guide

• Sex None

  The main male characters wear clothes that accentuate the male form including their large muscles, some of which are exposed. The camera lingers often on their unclothed muscles and bare male chests, which is a form of sexual objectification.

  There is a scene where Bruce banner appears naked. Nothing explicit is shown.

  Tony makes a joke about "performance issues".

  Natasha wears a tight suit throughout the film that emphasizes her figure, in particular her hips and buttocks. The camera often lingers.

  Infrequent innuendo when a man's inability to use a weapon is referred to as 'performance issues'

  Pepper wears short shorts at the beginning.

  A character tells Bruce Banner that he saw Hulk flying in the air big, green and buck-ass nude.

  Natasha wears a dress that displays a lot of cleavage while tied up on a chair. Her breasts are shown bouncing when she fights her captors.

  Tony and Pepper kiss once, and there is some mildly suggestive talk between them (we cant hear it, no voice).

• Violence Moderate

  Throughout the movie multiple Chituari (the movie's villains) are killed by the Avengers. There is occasional, brief spurts of purple blood.

  There are intense action sequences in which characters fight and exchange crunchy blows. There are bloodless stabbings and a brief sequence in which a man is impaled with a bloodied blade. There are occasional moments of injury detail, but the violence is relatively bloodless

  Loki uses a device to rip out a man's eyeball. You don't see him physically remove it, but you do hear the squelching from the removal and you see the man physically writhing as his eye is removed.

  Loki uses a machine to gorge a man's eye out, he is heard screaming and writhing. Disturbing.

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  Hulk slams Loki around like a ragdoll at one point. It is both comedic and satisfying.

  Throughout the film, there are many intense action sequences that include fights, kicks, punches, punched down people, and shootouts in which many people killed but no blood. There are many destruction scenes.

  The climactic final battle scene is very intense, destructive, and harsh. Some minor blood on protagonist's faces and bodies.

  A man is stabbed in the back. The blade protrudes from his chest with blood on the edges and his mouth.

  Bruce Banner reveals that he tried to kill himself by shooting himself in the mouth, but says "the other guy" (the Hulk) spit the bullet out. It is very intense to hear the story.

• Profanity Mild

  There is mild bad language ('hell', 'd**n', 'ass', 'son of a b**ch', 'p**sed off', 'b**tards').

  'P*ssed off' is said twice.

  'B*stards' is said once.

  'D*mn' is said once.

  '*ss' is said once.

  "God," "p**s," "hell," "d**n," "ass," and separate one-time uses of "b**ch," and "b**tard" respectively.

  Mild language, including: "h*ll", "d*mn", "*ss", "soab", "bast*rd", "p*ss off"; as well as two sexual references.

  2 uses of hell, 2 uses of p**s, 1 use of d**n, 1 use of b**tard 1 use of ass

  Loki hurls out the British anatomical vulgarity "quim" as a sexist putdown.

• Drugs Mild

  Tony offers Loki a drink. Later Loki says, "If its all the same to you, I'll have that drink now"

  A man is asked if he has a 'huge bag of weed'.

  Tony and Pepper sip champagne.

• Frightening Scenes Mild

  Lots of fighting and intense scenes throughout.

  A character makes a comment about a failed suicide attempt.

  The Chitauri and their leader, the Other, are extremely scary, especially for young children. Though they typically wear armored masks, one Chitauri rips its mask off at one point, revealing a disfigured alien face.

  Though the film may have scary disturbing and creepy characters this film can be light hearted probably one of the most light hearted movies made by marvel

  The Hulk chases the Black Widow, causing massive destruction along the way.

  There is a few scenes that could definitely frighten younger viewers, but nothing too crazy.

  Multiple casualties during the battle of new York. We don't see the casualties but there heavily implied.

  Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow is kidnapped early on; The kidnappers almost throw her into a hole, but she speaks up before they do anything.

  The film is intended for people 13 over due to violence and some profanity.

  There are several prolonged and intense action sequences, but they're not shot in an overtly horrific or graphic way, and there are also many comedic moments throughout the film that lighten the tension.

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