The Avengers

• 2012
• 143 min
• Science Fiction
• Action
• Adventure
• US

Directed by Joss Whedon

Alarms wail, the Tesseract flares, and Loki steps through with an agenda nobody signed off on. Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D., dusts off a contingency plan few believed in: assemble Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye aboard one aircraft carrier and hope the walls hold. What follows is part global manhunt, part reluctant introduction, as an alien invasion gathers overhead. Saving the planet may prove simpler than getting six extraordinary people to agree on anything.