The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: Allusions, Allusions
Review: This is either a love it or hate it movie. It has a bit of a cliched and predictable plot, but it will none-the-less keep you watching. If you're a fan of the novels each characters to come from, its especially good. The special effects really add to the already classic stories in this lovely cross over. I really enjoyed it, and everyone should at least give it a try.

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Summary: Action and adventure!
Review: League Of Extraodinary Gentlemen, or LXG, is one of the most amazing action/adventures Iv'e seen in a long time. This movie is basically an X-Men movie set in a furistic 1899 Europe. Sean Connery, one of my favorite actors ever, plays Allen Quartermain, an Indiana Jones-type adventurer, who is called out of retirement in Africa to battle a masked weirdo known only as 'The Fantom'. He recruits a 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen', which includes a variety of literary characters, to help him fight The Fantom. The include:
The swashbuckling Captain Nemo
Dorian Gray
The Invisible Man
Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde
some woman named Wilhemina
Tom Sawyer

Lots of explosions, shootings, and swordfighting ensues.

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Summary: Horrible Movie
Review: This movie fell flat on all counts. The graphics although very pretty, did nothing for the terrible acting and horrible story. I loved X-Men and was really anticipating the release of this movie. If memory serves it only stayed in the theatres maybe two weeks before getting thrown into the dollar theatre. Don't waste your money or time watching this flic... You will be disappointed.

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Summary: high octane 18th century super heroes
Review: This flick is so over the top that it's not for everybody. I like this kind of movie and thought the characters made a very unusual but intriguing super hero team. It's like the Justice League of the 18th century. I got plenty of bang for my buck and it gets better each time I watch it.

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Summary: I bought it today...
Review: ...and having rented it once before I have no good explanation for it! This is all effects, and a "flatline" script. And not something Connery should waste his talent on. After all, I do miss a good, new classic from him now not having seen him in a in a good picture since perhaps The Rock, that movie was ok.

If you didn't like Van Helsing, I know I didn't - then stay away! All these different famous characters (Mina, Dr.Jekyll, Captain Nemo and more) who appears in the movie simply don't belong together in the same story. And I realize that this is an adventure-movie, fiction, and a bit wild imagination - that I in fact do believe a have a doze of myself, but the story of the movie somehow doesn't fit anywhere, wether it's on screen or paper. This is a technical overdoze, and I agree with one of the reviewers below who didn't like what the moviemakers have done with The Nautilius (spelled correct here?).

Some movies should just not have been made...