YMMV / The Avengers (1998)

• Awesome Music: Say what you will about the actual movie, but the main theme is very cool.
• Complete Monster: Sir August de Wynter is a depraved, Bond-esque mastermind who heads Wonderland Weather as a front for his immoral activities. De Wynter starts the "Prospero Project" in a bid to control the world's weather, murdering two of his own minions by tricking them into backing out of the project and later killing even the loyal scientists who helped to devise his doomsday device. Wynter, in the steps to his master plan, has an agent in Emma Peel's likeness murder people to frame the Ministry while knocking out and attempting to rape the real Peel in a moment of lust. Wynter ultimately attempts to extort billions out of all the world's nations lest he manipulate the weather into creating natural disasters to ravage the entire planet and kill millions, trying to freeze all of London to death in order to prove that he is serious.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Fans of the original series have all but completely disavowed this film and tend to view it as an unfaithful adaptation.
• Fridge Brilliance: Yes, the bear suits are silly as hell. But then again, they have done a great job at distracting you from whatever de Wynter's conference was about, didn't they?
• Ham and Cheese: Sean Connery as Sir August de Wynter. As dire as the film is, he's at least trying to liven things up and seems to be enjoying playing the kind of super villains his Bond used to fight.
• Questionable Casting:
  • Emma Peel, a role memorably played by the auburn-haired and English Diana Rigg, was played by the blonde American Uma Thurman.
  • The utterly bizarre decision to cast Suzy Eddie Izzard and Shaun Ryder as a pair of henchmen. The former is utterly wasted in a role with hardly any lines.
• Retroactive Recognition: A young Keeley Hawes is Tamara, Agent of Sir August. Funnily enough, she would later appear opposite Diana Rigg's daughter Rachael Stirling in a contemporary television adaptation of Othello and Tipping the Velvet (2002).
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The Ministry has an Invisible Man, and yet they simply hide him away in the filing room, instead of using him as an infiltration officer. For added WTF, the Invisible Man is voiced by Patrick Macnee, the original John Steed.

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