With umbrella, charm and bowler hat (film)

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Movie
German title With umbrella, charm and bowler hat
Original title The avengers
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1998
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jeremiah S. Chechik
script Don MacPherson
production Jerry Weintraub ,
Susan Ekins
music Joel McNeely ,
Laurie Johnson (author),
Sinéad O'Connor (song: Summer's End )
camera Roger Pratt
cut Mick Audsley
occupation

With umbrella, charm and melon (original title: The Avengers) is an American feature film from 1998 , based on the television series Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone , in particular on the episode A Surfeit of H 2 O and H 2 O - deadly wet . The film was directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik with Ralph Fiennes as John Steed and Uma Thurman as Emma Peel. Sean Connery plays the role of villain Sir August de Wynter .

action

John Steed is a British Intelligence Special Agent run by "Mother" and "Father". Steed is tasked with finding out the background to a break-in in a research center together with the scientist Doctor Emma Peel. The surveillance cameras show Doctor Peel as a burglar, who, however, protests her innocence. The head of the secret service, who appears as the “mother”, however, considers it a privilege that she is allowed to prove her innocence.

Steed and Peel confront a mad Scottish villain, Sir August de Wynter, who is blackmailing world governments with a weather control machine. He covers London, where a ministerial conference is meeting, with snowstorms and demands 10% of the gross national product for good weather.

It turns out that Peel has a doppelganger working for the bad guys. She is kidnapped by her double and by the "father" who works for de Wynter. Peel is carried in a balloon that makes her explode. She falls in snow and is found there by Steed - who checks that she is the real Peel by kissing her.

Steed and Peel get into the control center of the weather control machine hidden in London and destroy it. De Wynter and his other helpers die. In the end, Peel, Steed and “mother” celebrate the success.

background

Patrick Macnee , John Steed on the television series, has a cameo as the voice of Invisible Jones. Diana Rigg , who played Emma Peel on the television series, was offered the role of Alice; however, she refused.

Production costs were estimated to be $ 60 million. After negative test screenings, the film was massively shortened to its current length. Many logic errors only arose as a result. The film grossed approximately $ 23.3 million in US cinemas; in addition there was about 25.2 million US dollars in the rest of the world.

Reviews

James Berardinelli scoffed at ReelViews that the film seemed so incoherent, as if Michael Myers had cut it with his knife from the film Halloween . Nothing in the film arouses interest, it fails in every imaginable way - be it the performance, direction or script. Ralph Fiennes seems emotionless like a sleepwalker in the role of John Steed. He is still better than Uma Thurman, who has no idea how to play Emma Peel. She vacillates between an "Ice Queen" and a vamp. The film is currently the worst adaptation of a television series as a feature film. He won this "dubious honor" against Mr. Magoo - and that "say all that can be said". Stephen Hunter wrote in the Washington Post : “This is a film in which, proud and confident of victory, nothing works. [...] He embarrasses everyone who had to do with it. "Patrick Macnee stated in the TV Guide :" It was a terrible flop. Thank God!"

"Despite the acceptable cast of the leading roles, a film that is misstaged and lacks lightness for satire and ideas for action film."

“The new edition of the popular TV series from the 1960s by Jeremiah S. Chechik ( Diabolisch , Benny and Joon ) is truly unique: The bumpy work was so embarrassing that the three main actors did not even appear at the world premiere in London . After all, Patrick Macnee, series actor of John Steed, is there as the 'invisible Jones'. "

Awards

The film was "awarded" in 1999 in the worst remake category with the negative award Golden Raspberry . He was nominated in the categories:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. There are different details about the length of the original version.
  2. Box office / business for The Avengers. Retrieved July 27, 2007.
  3. ^ Review by James Berardinelli. Retrieved July 27, 2007.
  4. Critique in the Washington Post. Retrieved July 27, 2007.
  5. The Avengers Forever: The Movie . (English).
  6. Franziska Fischer: Mrs. Peel, we are needed! , Bertz + Fischer GbR, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3865051592
  7. With umbrella, charm and bowler hat. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 25, 2015 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  8. cf. prisma.de