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Summary: No Trailer?
Review: I really enjoyed this movie. I know it's following on the heels of other big comic book/graphic novel successes, like X-Men, Spiderman, Blade, and the others, but it's still a fun movie. The various literary characters were interesting, and together they had a variety of talents that the actors brought out well. There are a few inconsistencies in the movie that I caught the second time I watched it that bothered me a little. Mina Harker is a vampire, or at least appears to be one, but she's out in broad daylight in more than one occasion, which is something vampires traditionally can't do. Mr. Hyde lets out a yell while under water, yet we see no bubbles escape his mouth. And the citizens of Venice are celebrating Carnival in July, when it's traditionally celebrated in February. However, I can dismiss them as nothing major. One thing I was pleased of was the lack of major plot holes. The characters are interesting, although if you didn't have at least a little back story for all of them you'd probably be quite lost. To make up for that the movie moves quickly, there are seldom any long scenes, and it feels like they trimmed the movie down to its bare essentials. The DVD has decent extra features, the making of feature runs for quite a while, if you tell it to play all for all the bits, and the deleted scenes are interesting. However there are two things that bring the DVD itself down for me. First, there's no trailer. I like having the trailer on the DVD. And second, there's an "important message" on the DVD that is really out of place, and in my opinion, inappropriate. It's a public service announcement about smoking marijuana and how it causes fatal accidents. Not only is it out of place (there's no drug use outside of Dr. Jeckyll's potions), but it cheapens the message by making itself out to be something it's not. If it was titled PSA or something identifying it, I wouldn't have minded it so much. Heck, I wouldn't have minded it if it was an anti-piracy PSA, but it was out of place.
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Summary: The league of extraordinarily quick and muddled productions.
Review: I rented this flick with the expectations that all the negative press and word of mouth was a little exagerated due to the engaging premise. Come to find out the negative press and word of mouth was dead on, this flick is a letdown. It seems this movie was rushed due to the gaping plot holes, average fx, and blindingly quick action scenes (so much is happening all at once you can barely tell WHAT is going on). Given maybe better direction and a lengthier script and production, this could've been a really neat franchise. Another in the long list of 'no brainer' adaptations (comic book or otherwise) that if the filmmakers had stuck closer to the source material, should've had a fun and entertaining blockbuster. When will Hollywood producers realize that if they meld great fx with an exciting, smart script and make a good movie they will make a lot more coin than they will with the likes of THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN? puzzling.
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Summary: What is this..........The British X-men?????
Review: don't get me wrong...Sean Connery is a good actor..but i think he was on smack to do such a horrid and terrible film. I mean I think we already have an X-men. We don't need a British ONE!!! Not even The special effects help the movie at all. Take my advice and don't waste your time...
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Summary: Disappointing.
Review: Yeesh. An inexcusably muddled, disjointed action film. Sean Connery is the sole redeeming feature in a movie that is otherwise distinguished by poor sound design, overly busy visual design, negligible character development; flat, occasionally chintzy, special effects, and very little of the ironic humor that marked the original Alan Moore comic book. It's all just so blunt and obvious and poorly rendered. Why? Can it really be that hard to make a good action film?
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Summary: I HAD A LOT OF FUN
Review: For entertainment purposes, I found LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN to be a great roller coaster ride, filled with some awesome CGI effects, derring do and villainous confrontations. Peta Wilson as Mina Harker was my favorite; Shane West as Tom Sawyer was fun; Jason Flemyng's Jekyll/Hyde goofily exciting; and of course, Sean Connery leading the way as he always so gallantly does. Trevor Jones' score was brilliant, too. It's mindless, confusing at times, but as far as "comic book" adventures go, it's a great way to spend a couple hours. Don't take it so seriously and I think you'll find it enjoyable too. Richard Roxburgh as M is excellent too! Stephen Norrington's direction is right on target.
I recommend it heartily.
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Summary: Not even Ed Wood could make something this bad
Review: Without a doubt, the worst movie I have seen in years.
Rating:
Summary: Disappointing Waste / Effects Do Not Make a Story
Review: An extremely impressive group of 19th century literary figures are completely wasted in this moronic big budget film. Special effects are GREAT but the effects are the only good things in this dumb and uninteresting tale. Mr. Hyde should not be portrayeed as the Hulk; Moriarity and Nemo were men of genius, not marshal arts fighters; there was no story worth telling so it was just a beautiful big budget film of no consequence. Too dumb to even be fun. I have seen and loved every Sean Connery film ever made for 45 years. This is a loser.
Rating: 
Summary: A must see.
Review: This movie is a great movie to rent or buy.
It may be best to go into the movie with
the thought,"What if these people did exist
or what if this was possible."
All the actors were great and the dialog
was awesome. A must see.
They really shouldn't have set it up
for a sequel though.
Rating: 
Summary: Turn your brain off and watch
Review: Cause that's the only way you can enjoy this movie. Just forget that Sean Connery is too old to run around and beat the snot out of strong 20-30 something guys. Forget that Tom Sawyer serves no purpose at all except eye candy (and not very good eye candy..sorry ladies). Forget that some of these characters are suppose to be dead and have zero explaination as to why they are not. Forget that Mr. Hyde looks like Hulk's retarded little brother, Forget that the Nautilis is way too big to rise up from the docks, sail the Venice canals, or even the ocean. Forget that Mina can walk during the daylight hours. Forget that Dorian Gray was not invincible and that he could never die by simply looking at his painting. Just forget all of that and eveything else. I know it's a hard task to do, which is why this movie is a flop. But still it's quite enjoyable, I like the action, Dorian Gray was my favorite character. Alot of things had me going WTF?! (not in a good way) but other than that I did manage to enjoy myself. The sets are beautiful. Car chase in venice? LOL!!! Shame, this movie could have been good. All they had to do was take the already written script point out all the mistakes (lines and all) and do the opposite. Flesh out the characters more instead of having them be the background for Sean Connery, don't go overboard on the SFX. Bam problem solved and you have a great movie. But this is one of those mindless enjoyable flicks that will soon be forgotten. Too bad for Sean Connery that he didn't jump on the LOTR ship when he had the chance, man is he kicking himself for passing that up and was instead trapped in this mindless popcorn flick. 2 1/2 stars.
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Summary: A Mess but an enjoyable one
Review: Ok this isn't a great movie but I found it to be a lot of fun. I don't know why so many people hate it. It has it's flaws yes but I still don't see it as a one star movie. The end makes no sense and it's also dumb that there's a female vampire that seems to be able to be out in the sun. I mean if you're gonna have a vampire in a movie you should go by the rules, they can't be out in sun light. Still for someone who is a big fan of classic books I found it fun to have all these classic characters together. The movie is brainless but brainless fun, I see no reason to really hate it. Stuart Townsend (Queen of the Damned) is the best thing about the movie as Dorian Grey. He has the best lines and he has fun in the part as well. The movie has been compared to bad summer movies like Batman & Robin and Wild Wild West but it's a lot better then those. I didn't expect much and I was surprised how much I got into the movie. If you give it a fair chance who knows maybe you'll like it too.
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