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Three Musketeers, The (12A)

Action, Adventure, Romance

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.


The critical consensus

Not quite as unspeakable as other Anderson efforts but within striking distance.

**(*)(*)(*)Daily Record, 07/10/2011

Stupid, with three o’s. But also fun, never boring, and never insulting (to anyone other than Dumas) — unlike certain of the summer’s A-pics…

***(*)(*)Dan Jolin, Empire Online, 10/10/2011

All for one maybe, but one for all? Not quite. Although starry, lavish and superficially spectacular, this version of the perennial old favourite isn’t likely to endure.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Neil Smith, Total Film, 11/10/2011

The best that can be said about Paul WS Anderson’s disposable new version of The Three Musketeers is that it’s vaguely more coherent than either his Resident Evil films or his abysmal Alien vs Predator sci-fi mash-up.

**(*)(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 07/10/2011

Too many characters, too many plotlines, too little wit. Anderson throws everything at the wall, but ultimately none of it sticks.

**(*)(*)(*)Emma Dibdin, Little White Lies, 13/10/2011

It’s a lot more fun than the most recent hatchet-faced entry in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, but it’s also exasperatingly slapdash.

**(*)(*)(*)Robbie Collin, The Telegraph, 13/10/2011

Dismal dialogue means it starts out silly and only gets sillier still when James Corden rocks up as Planchet. His attempts at comic relief are simply painful.

Paul Greenwood, Evening Times, 13/10/2011

t's all a bit ho-hum – James Corden has the Roy Kinnear role of comedy fat servant, but there's not much for him, or anyone else, to work with.

**(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 13/10/2011

A dead cert for a slot in the Top Ten Worst of 2011.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 14/10/2011

A reboot of the classic tale that’s more dumb-ass than Dumas. If you think that line creaks, wait till you hear the attempts at wit in Anderson’s period romp.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Alison Rowat, The Herald, 13/10/2011

Only Christoph Waltz's Cardinal Richelieu has any style.

Philip French, The Observer, 16/10/2011

For all its pandering to our inner 12-year-olds, The Three Musketeers is strangely uninvolving, the characters crowded out by explosions and airship battles.

Nicholas Barber, The Independent on Sunday, 16/10/2011

The story – of the Musketeers’ attempt to prevent a war between France and England – is completely lost in the high-tech mix. One doesn’t engage with a second of it.

Sunday Herald, 16/10/2011

Three Musketeers, The (12A)

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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