"Sean Connery was in The Avengers?!?" No, no he wasn't, and the reason the people of the UK were the only ones in the world who had to ask to see something called 'Avengers Assemble' rather than what it actually was was because of that other, considerably less welcomed 1998 movie called The Avengers. The Avengers is regularly classified as one of the worst films ever made - that's part of the reason why Marvel wanted to distance themselves from that title in the UK - and Sean Connery, playing a supervillain who can control the weather named Sir August de Wynter, is taking no prizes in it. Having to read out some prime dire-logue and - in one scene - dress up in a giant teddy bear costume and act as though it's normal, it looks like it was actually paining Connery to star in the film. Connery isn't so much threatening here as bored, and he amazingly looks even more uncomfortable than he did in Zardoz, a film in which he wore a proto-mankini for 100 damned minutes.
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