Go with me on this review it is the first. As I try to get our opinions across try to picture the movie from a fresh fun point of view. Forget the other movies which have been made of the tale of ‘The Three Musketeers’ and allow yourself to watch as a new story – if you fail to do that then you will disagree with this review.
‘The Three Musketeers’ (2011) movie has certainly cast shadows upon the other movies made from the Book. Paul W.S. Andersons ‘The Three Musketeers’ is not ‘THE’ three musketeers it is in fact ’a’ Three Musketeers movie that has some direct quotes of the book yet somehow it still manages to go off on its own tale to keep it ‘updated’; no point in making a three musketeers movie if it’s going to be the same as its predecessors.
I feel this fun, enjoyable movie was created for younger generations and targets an audience that have never heard of the story or seen the other numerous movies before. With beautiful locationsand numerous amounts of props to support scenes the artist view on the movie has certainly captured the time zone and succeeded at drawing you into the environment of the plot.
‘The Three Musketeers’ (2011) movie has certainly cast shadows upon the other movies made from the Book. Paul W.S. Andersons ‘The Three Musketeers’ is not ‘THE’ three musketeers it is in fact ’a’ Three Musketeers movie that has some direct quotes of the book yet somehow it still manages to go off on its own tale to keep it ‘updated’; no point in making a three musketeers movie if it’s going to be the same as its predecessors.
I feel this fun, enjoyable movie was created for younger generations and targets an audience that have never heard of the story or seen the other numerous movies before. With beautiful locationsand numerous amounts of props to support scenes the artist view on the movie has certainly captured the time zone and succeeded at drawing you into the environment of the plot.
Putting the visuals aside for a moment and taking a view on the cast list of this movie I felt the range of talent from all sorts of entertainment for example James Corden staring as Planchet – really? - Jess and I had our mixed views on saying that Corden’s role was not needed. With the line repeated “shut up Planchet” was infact over used and was not funny in any way. It – to me – killed Corden’s role as Planchet was a funny role but each time I would laugh at what Planchet was saying it would be killed by the main cast – Matthew Macfayden (Athos), Luke Evans (Aramis) and Ray Stevenson (Porthos) which inevitably became annoying. It seemed that each of the characters seemed melodramatic in what they were asked to do for example D’Artagnan being able to challenge everyone he comes across – of course he has to pull the story together but this kid is a bit bigheaded for his own good. However saying this each of the characters needed to be melodramatic to make their character work without one the others fall apart – much like the Three Musketeers “All for one, and one for all”.
The introduction to the main characters indeed succeeded in showing each of the main skills of the three musketeers alongside the detail in costume with shots spanning the bodies of each character. The opening scenes for each character are also referred to later in the movie – repeating clips of the scenes to reiterate the moment.
The introduction to the main characters indeed succeeded in showing each of the main skills of the three musketeers alongside the detail in costume with shots spanning the bodies of each character. The opening scenes for each character are also referred to later in the movie – repeating clips of the scenes to reiterate the moment.
With the story set around action, sword play and explosions there is a meaningful side – the romance. Three tales of love portrayed across the film each one linking to a different pair of characters. I had said after seeing the movie that I did not like the romance scenes when in fact looking back each one had a different persona with the young love of D’Artagnan (actor Logan Lerman) and Lady in Waiting (actress Gabriella Wilde), Athos ( Macfayden) and Milady de Winter (actress MillaJovovich) taking the serious love within after a dramatic scene [SPOILER] Milady choosing to fall to her death instead of Athos shooting her who states she knew he wouldn’t of been able to live with himself if he shot her and saying “she did it for me”. Finally coming to the last romantic couple the innocence of the Queen (actress Juno Temple) – which was beautiful cast and portrayed through her acting – and the King Louis (actor Freddie Fox).
The last scene [SPOILER] does in fact show that Milady survived her fall into the English Channel with her coming around – drenched in her patterned dress – to a young, evil character The Duke of Buckingham aka Orlando Bloom. This quickly leads onto a scene of boats on the water heading to France – to get revenge – before panning up to see the air ships. Leaving us a open ended film which means a sequel in the future – thoughts on this? Well let’s just say I do not think it will/should be any time soon.
Overall I feel ‘The Three Musketeers’ did a very good attempt at explaining the story of the musketeers and their journeys with the enjoyable for all – who have not seen other three musketeer films – but it falls as a movie which you will only ever want to watch just that once; not a movie I would buy on dvd anytime soon.
I rate this movie at 3.5*
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