“The Three Musketeers” is bound to upset Alexandre Dumas fans and historical action film fans alike, according to the latest stats from Rotten Tomatoes.
According the site, the critics went to town with it, giving it a 27%. Audiences, with their broader makeup by nature, had a better score for the film, 53%, but still thought it was terrible. The general critical description is brutal–“It plays admirably fast and loose with Alexandre Dumas’ classic tale, but in every other respect, ‘The Three Musketeers’ offers nothing to recommend–or to set it apart from the many other film adaptations.” Let’s see what the critics said in more depth.
“Whatever your relationship…to the Alexandre Dumas story about Athos, Porthos, Aramis and the lionhearted musketeer intern, D’Artagnan, there’s a word for the latest screen edition of ‘The Three Musketeers’: whatthehell? Seriously” What the hell?”–Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
“All the borderline pantomime acting and wigged buffoonery is deliberate and silly, but ‘The Three Musketeers’ remains charmless, a romp brought down by its lead-footed script…the dialogue wavers between the unamusingly anachronistic (“Lovely outfit. Very retro”) and a painful attempt at courtly banter.”–Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
“Anyone expecting a sophisticated, adult, and masterful adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel will have to wait a lot longer as Anderson is mostly content with subjecting audiences to a brutally infantile and wholly bland version of one of the greatest stories of all time…At the end of the day, this ‘epic’ is merely a drab affair, and it’s obviously trying to steal the spotlight from the superior Disney pirates franchise. As an Anderson movie it’s on par with most of his material, and that doesn’t bode well for poor Alexandre Dumas who continues rolling in his grave.”–Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed
If you’ve seen the movie, what do you think? Give your opinions in the comments section below.
just saw it. it’s bad…that’s bad, in the old fashioned sense of not good.