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Quickie 'Musketeers' review
Oct. 22nd, 2011 08:11 amWe went to see The Three Musketeers last night. I don't know how badly Dumas purists might hate it, but HAHA oh man, was it fun. The audience around us seemed amused as well - we were all laughing through most of it. I think Anderson deliberately made the absurdist version; at least that's the one all the actors thought they were starring in.
Teenage King Louis was delightfully foppish and clueless, Buckingham (Bloomsy) was snidely vain and cocky (I detected a few brief flashes of Sparrowesque posturing - I don't know who he was channeling the rest of the time, but I can say Will and Balian were nowhere in there), the Musketeers knew they must have been in a movie (including their servant, a scene-stealing turn by the rotund fellow who was Craig in a couple of Who episodes) - Aramis seemed to be channeling an older, wiser Will Turner; seriously, had Will lived to 35 and stayed single, this was HIM, down to appearance and, yes, even sword-throwing - Rochefort had a nice sort-of Barbossa going on, and Queen Anne was smarter than the lot. Oh, and Milady was the center of everything - including the end (let's just say Cutler Beckett lives on in some form, without me spoiling it, LOL). If that director isn't both a LOTR movie and a POTC fan, I'll eat my shoes. It's not the best movie in existence by far, but I'd watch a sequel ... if one ever gets made.
Teenage King Louis was delightfully foppish and clueless, Buckingham (Bloomsy) was snidely vain and cocky (I detected a few brief flashes of Sparrowesque posturing - I don't know who he was channeling the rest of the time, but I can say Will and Balian were nowhere in there), the Musketeers knew they must have been in a movie (including their servant, a scene-stealing turn by the rotund fellow who was Craig in a couple of Who episodes) - Aramis seemed to be channeling an older, wiser Will Turner; seriously, had Will lived to 35 and stayed single, this was HIM, down to appearance and, yes, even sword-throwing - Rochefort had a nice sort-of Barbossa going on, and Queen Anne was smarter than the lot. Oh, and Milady was the center of everything - including the end (let's just say Cutler Beckett lives on in some form, without me spoiling it, LOL). If that director isn't both a LOTR movie and a POTC fan, I'll eat my shoes. It's not the best movie in existence by far, but I'd watch a sequel ... if one ever gets made.
