The bar isn't high when it comes to adaptations of the three musketeers. Recent contenders (France's Three Musketeers: d'Artagnan and The Fourth Musketeer) certainly haven't raised it. I was briefly impressed when this movie started out with far more promise and entertainment value, especially in the action and comedy department, as well as being unafraid to use color in their costuming.
This was until we quickly began to realize that all the entertaining bits were all story beats from Disney's 1993 adapation (Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Tim Curry). After that realization we sadly couldn't unsee it.
Still, this might have been entertaining if they'd committed to a genre instead of bouncing between comedy, intrigue and wilderness survival documentary.
The 3 Inseparables were very well cast, however, and bonus points for the unexpected edition of Madame Chevreuse and Madame Coquenard showing up out of nowhere on horseback to save the day, though we're pretty sure the writers lifted THAT beat from fanfic.
This movie gets 2 stars for the 2 unexpected ladies.
This was until we quickly began to realize that all the entertaining bits were all story beats from Disney's 1993 adapation (Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Tim Curry). After that realization we sadly couldn't unsee it.
Still, this might have been entertaining if they'd committed to a genre instead of bouncing between comedy, intrigue and wilderness survival documentary.
The 3 Inseparables were very well cast, however, and bonus points for the unexpected edition of Madame Chevreuse and Madame Coquenard showing up out of nowhere on horseback to save the day, though we're pretty sure the writers lifted THAT beat from fanfic.
This movie gets 2 stars for the 2 unexpected ladies.