A well-intentioned but ultimately disastrous attempt to throw a pulpy new spin on one of English literature's most revered figures.
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07/11/03
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
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Reviews Counted:167
Fresh:27
Rotten:140
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Just ordinary. LXG is a great premise ruined by poor execution.
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Sean Connery stars as Allan Quatermain, the world's greatest adventurer, who leads a legion of superheroes the likes of which the world has never seen, in THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY... [More]
Starring: Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Shane West
Director: Stephen Norrington
Reviews for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Much dumber and pulpier than the comic book on which it's based.
07/11/03
...a special effects extravaganza that's not all that special. Jekyll/Hyde is great fun though!
07/11/03
For all the high-brow literary humor and engaging action scenes, the film gains no momentum and instead cruises along content to have you marvel at its potential.
07/11/03
With its lumbering, geriatric feel and turn-of-the-last-century fussiness, this League plays out like a large-print Reader's Digest version of The X-Men.
07/11/03
So good at being bad that it's almost admirable.
07/11/03
Creators Moore and O’Neill always let on that they have a better grasp of history than the average reader. Director Norrington displays quite the opposite.
07/11/03
[An] old-fashioned, Saturday matinee fun spotlighting larger-than-life heroes, a masked mystery villain, deadly perils and scientific wonders.
07/11/03
The characters are so lifeless the only sparks we could see were the glow of illuminated watches as people checked to see how much longer this was going to go on.
07/11/03
While watching 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,' I found myself in the League of I Want Out of Here.
07/11/03
There are many, many flaws with LXG but one of the biggest is that after having set up such an intriguingly odd premise, the film proceeds to completely squander it by failing to come up with a single interesting way to exploit the conceit.
07/11/03
It’s loud, alternately garish and boorish and is going to hack off literary connoisseurs, comic book lovers and movie fans alike.
07/10/03
It grows into its suckiness -- it's not sure what to do with it at first, and then it gets comfortable with the idea that it's sucking, and then it wholly embraces it...
07/10/03
LXG isn't DOA, but it's sending an SOS.
07/10/03
Weak climax, but overall, the film is quite enjoyable, never too serious about itself, always in it for the fun and adventure.
07/10/03
Casting a six-foot-two Shane West and having him play Tom Sawyer as a listless (but American!) hunk: that's bad.
07/10/03
Don't expect anything more substantial than grape soda.
07/10/03
The subject matter of LXG demands an intelligent approach... You simply can't marry such a literary conceit with the simplistic needs of an event picture.
07/10/03
The finest moments are when the nineteenth century literary superheroes demonstrate their unique talents.
07/10/03
This movie is so boring that the mind floats to extraneous matters ...
07/10/03
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