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Summary: You have got to see this!!!!
Review: First of all, this movie does have some plot holes and "silly" dialogue and action - but I loved it!
Though it's not intentionally mocking like Pricess Bride (of fairy tales) it is extremely entertaining and extremely fun to watch..like Jumanji and Legend, Meet Joe Black and Edward Scissorhands...all cult classics, but not really accepted during theatrical release.
If you love any of these, pick this one up NOW!!!!
It's a perfect holiday companion to Pirates of the Caribbean (which I also loved)!!!!
An unpraised classic for Gothic, Horror, Suspense and Adventure buffs!!
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Summary: Too Silly to be Serious
Review: While the extraordinary comic of the same name is an outstanding read and visually stunning, the film is down right silly at times (such as speeding down the streets of Venice, Italy in a car... oops! Venice has no streets! It has canals! That's what makes the city unique!). There are numerous other scenes that are so off the wall and unexplained, one begins to wonder if there was even a script for this film. It's rather sad, almost the same treat James Gurney received for his monumental work, "Dinotopia". Both films have butchered their illustrative counterparts and the result, no matter how well intentioned, is disasterous. Only the most devoted fantasy/sci-fi fan would appreciate the special effects, because there is little else left.
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Summary: A huge disappointment
Review: I was really looking forward to seeing this movie; it seemed very exciting and a great idea. Unfortunately, if the script fails to make the movie even remotely entertaining, even a great idea is completely wasted.
The idea of many different types of superheroes coming together has a lot of potential for the big screen. However, the producers must have known the movies blockbuster potential and decided that no thought whatsoever was needed to make a great film.
The plot on a whole is rather good, but each individual scene is so predictable you start to wonder if the whole movie was turned out by a couple of monkeys with typewriters.
The camera angles and sets are somewhat good but the way the characters are introduced to each other is so badly written that you feel like your watching a spoof murder-mystery. Sean Connery is fine as Alan Quartermain, but nothing special and yet, the producers wanted to show off their leading man and so the movie feels more like it's just about Connery and not about the league as a whole. He's upstaged by Jason Flemyng as Dr Jekyll / Mr Hyde, a more interesting character and more convincing in the role. Peta Wilson plays Mina Harker the (supposed to be) sexy female vampire; she is thoroughly unconvincing and leaves you cringing with embarrassment.
Lines like "This is a nice place... Does Jack the Ripper live here?" are so pointless and placed only to fill time between one predictable 'twist' in the story line to the next.
I went to see the film with my entire family, including my siblings' significant others, not one of us found the film worth watching. I warn you - stay away.
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Summary: If you didn't like this movie, you are not a movie fan
Review: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was an awesome movie. It had action, cool characters, and fun plot twists. This movie was not meant to be deep and powerfully moving, but fun and exciting. People who did not enjoy this movie, obvoiusly need to relax and learn enjoy themselves at the theater.
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Summary: Not So Extraordinary...
Review: With Sean Connery appearing in roughly one film per two years, one would think he has the time, or at least would take an interest in choosing quality work. But alas, we are subjected to "The Avengers," one of - if not the - worst film of the decade...and now...this? Hardly a bad motion picture, but then again, hardly an Academy Award Winner.Believability isn't this film's strongest trait. I came close to recommending it a few times - I really did; I wanted to - but there was a particular scene involving a car chase through the streets of Venice (streets that, like the film critic Roger Ebert stated, do not even exist) that literally insulted my intelligence - at least, what little intelligence I have. I may not be the smartest person but by George I think that a bit more confidence in the audience's knowledge is in store. Keep in mind that the year is 1899 - automobiles have hardly been invented - yet we are shown one zipping around at not 100 miles per hour, through streets that never - and don't - exist, past guards who can't seem to be able to shoot a cat off a flea's back at two yards, and through pillars and windy little crevices and who knows what else; and all the while this vehicle is being driven by a young American not twenty-four years old. I'm the last person to complain about believability - but this even pushed it for me. And I'm the guy who recommended "Commando." Ah, yes, there is a plot behind this mess, but not a very smart one at all. Sean Connery plays Allan Quartermain. With the intended audience of this film obviously being little kids and rednecks living in their parents' basement in Louisiana with fourth grade educations (you know who you are), perhaps the filmmakers thought that they could dupe everyone into believing that Allan Quartermain is responsible in part for the creation of the quarter. Heck, for the heck of it, let's just say he is - we can't screw up facts any more than they already are! Quartermain is like the father of Indiana Jones - oh, wait, didn't Connery play that part already? He's a legendary adventurer responsible for renowned events around the world - events never ventured into whatsoever. An emissary from England mentions he is the role model for all little boys and the focus of all their stories. Perhaps he meant to say the laughing stock. Who knows? No, seriously, Quartermain has been invited to join "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman," a league of gentlemen with extraordinary powers - ironically one is a woman. Perhaps a more appropriate - and yes, more marketable - title would have been "The League of Extraordinary People Which May or May Not Include Hot Women." It sure would be more marketable to the male teenagers out there, wouldn't it? Also in the team are such daring and wonderful characters as Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah - say it ten times fast), a retired pirate; Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), a she-vampire; Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran), a British pickpocket with an obviously low IQ but yet a man who managed to dabble in invisibility, hardly an easy subject for those with simple minds, with strange results; Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend), who you may remember is the man who remained at ease with his conscience through incidents relating to a portrait of his soul; Tom Sawyer (Shane West), one of them thar' American folk; and last, but certainly not least in terms of mass, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Jason Flemyng and The Incredible Hulk), who bears a striking resemblance to both The Hulk and the nightclub gorilla from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988) when morphed. There are a lot of mistakes in "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman," and not all of them have to do with geographical or factual errors. First of all, the characters from classic fiction are totally f****ed up. Since when was Dorian Gray invincible? In one scene he comes up with bullet holes through his body and he never even flinches. As far as I knew his mind was at rest with his actions in Oscar Wilde's classic tale, and his age remained permanent, but he was hardly ever indestructible; and the thing that got me the most was Mr. Hyde. Having read Robert Louis Stevenson's truly wonderful tale, I felt cheated by the character shown here - he looked like Shrek and a giant gorilla's offspring. Only uglier. I always got the idea from Stevenson's text that Mr. Hyde was a bit of a shy, awkward, short character who lurked in the shadows and had a disfigured face - this Mr. Hyde is just another special effects extravaganza who gets to wipe out hoards of enemy soldiers like bowling pins with one mighty swing of a forearm. And since when did he get to choose when he wanted to turn back into Dr. Jekyll? I always assumed it happened involuntarily... To be honest, this isn't a terribly bad film, but there are a few low-points that, if they were combined together without the stretches of "okay-ness" in between, would result in one of the most horrific films of the last two decades. The movie insulted my intelligence many times, particularly with the Venice car chase, which played out more like a testosterone junkie's videogame dream rather than anything more intelligent. And then there are the disgraceful reinventions of some of the most beloved of all characters. "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" boasts some extraordinary visual effects, but the rest of the film is anything but extraordinary. And I really felt cheated when I realized that Mr. Hyde was a big Hulk who could change back and forth voluntarily just like the former rather than being the darker, more disfigured character Stevenson envisioned. Some day they should get a good modern remake of the book with just enough visual effects to make him look terrifying but still somewhat human. In the meantime, the director of "The Extraordinary League of Gentlemen," Stephen Norrington, may soon be receiving a phone call from Stan Lee.
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Summary: The 2nd Best Action Film of the Year
Review: This movie was great period.The film based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore (who wrote the graphic novel "From Hell" is excellent.Allen Quartermaine played by Sean Connery is recruited to join a team called The Leauge of Extraordinary Gentleman.Among the other people recruited are The Invisible Man,
Captain Nemo,Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde,Mena Harker,Tom Saywer,and Dorian Gray played to perfection by Stuart Townsend who played Lestat in "Queen of the Damned".They set out to stop a madman known only as The Phantom who is trying to take over the world.
The effects are awesome,the chase scenes are great,and they have a perfect cast.SEE THIS MOVIE.A-
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Summary: It could have been really good!
Review: When I first found out about this movie I thought it looked like it would be a really fun movie. I got a little worried when I saw it getting such bad reviews, but I thought that maybe people had to high an expectation, and the movie wasn't all that bad. When I finally went to see the movie, I actually enjoyed it a little, but I would never see it again. It had some great characters and actors, but the plot was so pathetic, they should have just left it out! It had a few small twists, but they were not very well thought out and fairly obvious. If you like action movies, watch this movie, but try and get it at the library. Anyone who likes movies with good plots, do not watch this movie!
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Summary: Chavanistic tripe...destroys the excellent original story..
Review: What a dispointment this film was. If it wasn't for Peta Wilson, Stuart Townsend and Richard Roxburgh I would have stormed out in agrivation.
Even the plot changes wouldn't be so bad if not for one thing. From what I have been told when Mr. Connery signed on as executive producer he basically told the filmmakers that they needed to rewrite this film with his character as the lead instead of Mina Harker....well how insulting is that. If MR. CONNERY was truly a professional he would have realized he could have been an excellent supporting character and not have had to hog the spotlight just because of his fame. Many other A list actors have done so in the past. And in the end his age and obvious inability to have any true depth of character is what truly mangled this film.
There were some rays of light however, Peta Wilson as Mina Harker despite be religated to a supporting character still manages to get her digs in espcially when she impersinates Alan Quartermaine in one scene. And Stuart as Dorian Grey postively steals the show, he may have been an add on and not in the original story but he was one of the best parts in the film. Jekyl was also good but Hyde looked so damn stupid! The other league members were alright but under-utilized to put more light on Connery, big mistake.
Richard Roxburgh was also a bright light in this dimly felt film. My only hope is the next time some one asks Connery to be in a film and he wants it rewritten so he can be the big star they look at this film and say sorry we'll use someone else.
How sad...this film had promise.
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Summary: Not that bad
Review: I went into the theater expecting a horrible movie thanks to friends and theatrical reviews. Maybe because of that, I was able to enjoy it. I agree that some parts could probably have been done better, but I feel that way about almost every movie that's come out recently. While this isn't going to have an underground cult following, there's no reason to avoid it. People who waste their time talking about how badly it was done need to calm down. It's just a movie, don't take it so seriously!
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Summary: A MESS!
Review: What could have been intriguing and exciting alternate universe adventure movie ends up being a calamitous mess that's the result of far, far too many ideas being thrown at the audience at once. LXG caves in on itself leaving only a shell of a movie behind. It's cool to see that Sean Connery is still up for physical action but the rest of the cast is more than absolutely wasted. Most of the characters hint at some form of motivation but never seem do anything in particular. The director seems to give each one of them their own 'bit' in which they fight a bad guy or something but there is no real reason for all of them to be there. Except for some barmy 'plot' about a bad guy called 'The Phantom' (no, not Billy Zane in a purple catsuit) who wants to take over the world. Stephen Norrington (who was once set to direct Freddy vs Jason a long time ago) seems obsessed with turning every part of the movie into a 'crumbling masonry set piece'. Trevor Jones' score in bizarrely unmagical, the effects are far too frequent and extravagant for such a flippant, unhesitant presentation and the ending is a total let-down. There are dozens of unexplained elements in this film. Like why does the Vampire woman's hair constantly change from red to black? How can she walk around in the sunlight? Why are Mongolian peasants played by white folks? The ONLY interesting thing about this film is the fact that Richard Roxburgh plays Professor Moriarty. I mean this is the guy who once played Sherlock Holmes. An ironic casting choice no doubt but the film is still a shambles.
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