Rating: 
Summary: Excellent
Review: This is a film I liked the first time I saw it, but can't view it anymore. I know every frame of this wonderful film--almost to the point of having digested it. But how many films can you say that about? It is definately a made-for-tv movie, but it remains a classic for all of those "in the know." I suspect this film has a cult audience -- one that makes trekkies look passive by comparison.
Rating:
Summary: In top ten of all time; humor, romance, courage, intrigue!!
Review: Jane Seymour is awesome, but the title role supplants even her! You can watch it with your kids and parents! In top ten of all time with The Sound of Music, The Man From Snowy River, The Princess Bride, and Braveheart. A timeless must see!!!
Rating:
Summary: Daring, exciting, romantic, heroic
Review: Set in France during the French Revolution, The Scarlett Pimpernel portrays an English "fop" (who most people perceive as having little intellegence, and only interested in fashion,) spearheading a rescue operation to help save French nobelmen who are being slaughtered by the Revolutionary Mob.The Pimpernel uses disguises and clever tricks to escape capture. He falls in love and marries a French woman, but can he trust her with his secret? An excellent movie! I saw it 15 years ago and have been looking for it ever since.
Rating:
Summary: Movie with Jane Seymour is a MUST SEE
Review: I typically do not like to see movies twice, but I watched this one 5 times in one weekend!!!! (Okay, it was snowing and it WAS with 5 different friends.) Every time someone would drop by, I would hold them prisoner for the duration of the movie b/c it was the kind of movie I LONG for more of and I just had to share it. Full of French Revolution history giving the perspective of the misunderstood aristocracy. Couldn't Revolution have occurred without a guillotine blood bath? Was all who died truly guilty???? Me Thinks Not! Anyway, the guy who plays the Scarlet Pimpernel is a stud in fop's clothing. Too bad he had to spend a good deal of his screen-time as a powder puff. This movie was so good, it is the impotice for me to go to Broadway to see the play. Sink me.
Rating:
Summary: BEST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN!!
Review: I've never seen it with L. Howard, but I ADORE Anthony Andrews in this movie. I was thoroughly entertained and it kept me guessing what would happen next. It's a MUST for your video collection. Jane Seymour was quite good also. The bad guys you could really hate!
Rating: 
Summary: A Pale Immitation
Review: Anyone who has seen the great Leslie Howard in this role knows that he was the definitive Scarlet Pimpernel. While Anthony Andrews tries his best, he isn't quite up to it. Watch Howard's eyes as he switches between personas--it's obvious he was born to play this role. Sink me! Merle Oberon as Lady Blakeney, however, is another story...
Rating:
Summary: Sink Me, My Dear if you dont love it!
Review: I just love this watching this film, so funny but yet serious that this french revolution did take place in such a bloody way as this. The actors are ALL excellent and fit the part well and the costumes are amazingly accurate! The Scarlet Pimpernel himself is so obsessed with fashion which takes away the goryness of which the film could be, so it is for all the family. I just have to keep watching it and I would recommend it to anyone!
Rating: 
Summary: Great Movie, Horrible DVD
Review: When the first second of the first scene shows you little cubes instead of people's heads, the walls, and the torches, you might think the DVD transfer has some problems. When not even the letters in the credits stay stable, you begin to wonder whether you wouldn't be better off buying an old VHS copy and turning it into a tiny-sized Divx file. ARRRRGH! Which breaks my heart, because this version of The Scarlet Pimpernel is one of my all-time top ten movies. I'd be rating this with one star if the movie wasn't five-star. Too bad I can't actually see it!
Rating:
Summary: Classic, in every sense of the word!
Review: From the time I saw this movie at age 14, it has been one of my (and my entire family's & many friends) favorites--finally on DVD! Thank you to the brilliant person who thought of a DVD version. This is, by far, the best version of Baroness Orczy's classic novel (there are many, beginning with Leslie Howard's, David Nivens', etc.)
It makes for a satisfying dose of historical drama, romance, adventure, sacrifice, suspense, swordplay and humor.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for your home video/DVD collection!
P.S. The Scarlet Pimpernel is actually the first in a long series of novels by Baroness Orczy! If you want to add worthwhile titles to your reading list, take a look at blakeneymanor.com--you'll be in for a wonderful surprise!
Rating:
Summary: Not much out of the ordinary
Review: Jane Seymour and Anthony Andrews star in this remake of "The Scarlet Pimpernel". I haven't seen the original with Leslie Howard, but it's probably a good guess that it's notch above this made-for-TV version.
The film centres on a secret organisation of do-gooders, led by a man named Percy Blakeney (Anthony Andrews), who risk their own necks in order to help prisoners escape execution during the French Revolution. Apart from the name they go by, "The Scarlet Pimpernel", no one has any idea who they are. And to ensure that no one will ever suspect their true identity, they make themselves out to be idiots, weaklings, cowards, any trait that least resembles the heroic trademarks of "The Scarlet Pimpernel". Also to avoid recognition, they work under a range of disguises and are continually having to dodge a group led by the villain (who doesn`t come across as all that bad), Chauvelin (Ian McKellen). Chauvelin and his men are determined to find out who they are and stop them. To complicate matters though, Percy meets Marguerite (Jane Seymour), falls in love with her and ends up marrying, which leads to all sorts of problems.
The script is incredibly ordinary at times and the acting in places is a bit stiff. It's also difficult to accept that Jane Seymour's classy character of Marguerite would fall for such a pompous idiot as Percy. Anthony Andrew's acting is a bit off in parts, especially during some of his disguises and the film never has a high point. It stays on an even keel and never really takes off.
Yet, oddly enough, there are shreds of likeability to the film and a sense that there was organisation during production. But overall, the film is nothing special. Also, if it were an option, I would have given it a two and a half star rating.
|
