Chris O'Donnell

Kiefer Sutherland

Oliver Platt

Charlie Sheen

Tim Curry

Rebecca De Mornay

Paul McGann

Gabrielle Anwar

Michael Wincott

Julie Delpy

Hugh O'Conor

Christopher Adamson

Philip Tan

Erwin Leder

Axel Anselm

Bruno Thost

Oliver Hoppa

Emma Moore

Herbert Fux

Nichola Cordey

Sebastian Eckhardt

Maria Ford

Bob Anderson

George Lane Cooper

Christopher Leonard

Christoph Leonhardt Müller

Lubomir Misak

David Loughery

John F. Link

Alexandre Dumas

Roger Birnbaum

Dean Semler

Jon Avnet

Stephen Herek

Joe Roth

Jordan Kerner

Ned Dowd

Barbara Rutter

Frank Connor

Richard Holland

David Harris

Steven Sallybanks

Fritz Fleischhacker

Tim Chau

Jeremy Zimmermann

Neil Lamont

Rebekah Rudd

David J. Hudson

Trixi Waizenauer

Linda Bruce

Dwight Campbell

Richard C. Franklin

Dale E. Grahn

Wolf Kroeger

Bruno Cesari

David Pearson

Carl S. Griffin

Bernhard Schmatz

Lucky Englander

John Mollo

Colin Charles

Michael T. Ryan

William W. Wilson III

Paul Weston

Ann Masterson

Bill Darby

Robert Stadd

Mel Metcalfe

Hertha Hareiter

Paul Engelen

Lucinda Sturgis

John Paterson

Terry Porter

David LeRoy Anderson

Colin Jamison

Sally Jones

Christopher Brooks

Peter Hancock

Michael Kamen

Jason McNab

Michael D. Moore

David Tomblin

Reg Bream

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The Three Musketeers

Walt Disney Pictures

Caravan Pictures

United States of America

Austria

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paris, france

based on novel or book

musketeer

king of france

17th century

porthos

athos

d'artagnan

king louis xiii

year 1625

What's more overdone? The gratuitous cleavage shots or the catchphrase?

I did enjoy 'The Three Musketeers' - but boy is there a load of cleavage shoved in your face. The famous Musketeer phrase is also said a lot.

This film is a little bit of a weird one, in terms of how I feel about it. It's clearly enjoyable but I wasn't sure if it deserves the step above rating that I've given, by the end I think it just about gets there. I like the plot, the locations and pacing, but it took a relative while for the cast to grow on me.

Chris O'Donnell (D'Artagnan) and Oliver Platt (Porthos) would be my standouts, I liked both of them pretty much from the beginning; it's my first time seeing O'Donnell, away from his 'Batman' appearances, though have seen Platt a number of times.

Charlie Sheen (Aramis) and Kiefer Sutherland (Athos) are the ones who don't work amazingly in my opinion. I don't love their acting styles here, while I didn't sense enough chemistry between the two - and Platt, for that matter.

Tim Curry, meanwhile, is always hit-and-miss to me - not helped by the fact that 'Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties' is my biggest memory of him, I'm constantly hearing Prince XII whenever he talks - my apologies, Mr. Curry.

Lastly for the cast, it's also interesting (for me) seeing Paul McGann involved - I've very recently become aware of him through television's 'Luther'. Funny ol' world.

Sorry for the few tangents there. My final thoughts on this film: It's entertaining. Worth a watch.

They say a hero is only as good as the villain. If, by the same token, a villain is only as bad as the hero, then The Three Musketeers has, proportionately speaking, the best villains of any movie. Tim Curry and the diabolical Michael Wincott are inspired choices for Cardinal Richelieu and the Count (for some reason Captain in this movie) de Rochefort. In contrast, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, and Oliver Platt as Aramis, Athos, D'Artagnan, and Porthos, respectively, are like the Three Stooges without Moe, Larry, and Curly (i.e., Shemp, Joe, and Joe).

Athos, Porthos, Aramis, d'Artagnan; for those who have read Dumas's Musketeers saga, these aren't mere mortals; they are titans, demigods, princes of the Universe. Even The Man in the Iron Mask – an otherwise bad movie – knew that the Musketeers demand actors who can throw their weight around; in that case, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu, and Gabriel Byrne (no points for guessing Depardieu's role).

Sutherland is the only film actor among the quote-unquote heroes; the rest are glorified TV stars. Sheen in the role of Aramis is simply outrageous; it's true that both the character and the actor are fond of women, but Aramis likes ladies and Sheen likes whores, and it's safe to say that the actor and the character make their conquests in very different circles. Moreover, Aramis has class, grace, and elegance; Sheen, on the other hand, has exactly what he deserves (this film was released just six years after Wall Street, but Sheen's career even then was for all intents and purposes over). As for O'Donnell, what can you really say about him?

Dumas's original novel opens with one of the best father-and-son heart-to-hearts in literature (although the gold standard remains Polonius and Laertes in Hamlet). At the beginning of The Three Musketeers, though, D'Artagnan Sr. is already pushing daisies; “my father was a musketeer”, boasts Junior; “the personal bodyguard of the King”, to which someone, quite rightly, replies: “the King was assassinated. Your father was a failure". If it's any consolation, at least he wasn't as big a flop as this movie (which ends on a very positive note, and not just because it's finally over; similar to its protagonists and antagonists, its official theme song is as good as the movie is bad).

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Ok, first things first - this has nothing at all to do the Dumas' book. We ought to be clear on that before we continue through this Disneyfied interpretation of this classic story. A way too handsome Chris O'Donnell is "D'Artagnan" who arrives in Paris determined to follow in his father's footsteps and join the King's Musketeers. There is a fly in his ointment, though - the evil Cardinal Richelieu (Tim Curry) has seen to it that this particular militia has been disbanded in disgrace. Through a series of mishaps, he finds himself facing three duels with erstwhile musketeers - Messieurs Aramis, Porthos and Athos who all end up fighting the Cardinal's guard and unite... Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland and Oliver Platt are his colleagues as they struggle to restore their legion and simultaneously avert an English invasion, and quite probably a coup to replace the infantile King Louis. It's quite well paced, there is plenty of action and Curry is clearly having a bit of a laugh as the evil churchman. Otherwise, however, it's an unremarkable remake lacking much of the charm and cunning of either the 1948 or Richard Lester's 1973 romp.

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A review by r96sk

Written by r96sk on Mon Sep 28 2020

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