Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

bensonmum2 The year is 1899 and a man known as "M" gathers together a group literary characters for a mission designed to prevent a world war. Participants include: Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, and Dr. Henry Jekyll (with Mr. Hyde tagging along).I have friends who love The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but I don't get it. I've seen this film twice now and on each occasion, I was bored out of my mind. To me, the movie is a dull mess of ideas that never really work. There's too much bad CGI, too many poorly lit action sequences, and a monotonous color palette that doesn't extend beyond gray. The gathering of characters seems to be more important than the mission. It takes about half the film to get them all together. And it's all done in a smug, condescending sort of way that gets annoying real fast. I know who these characters are - I don't need an extended exposition on each one. It's insulting. And speaking of insulting, I can't believe what the writers forced Sean Connery to say and do. He has some really embarrassing moments. None more so than when he's forced to pantomime throwing the invisible man out of his room. As I said, it's embarrassing for a man of his stature. Overall, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a waste of time with few redeeming qualities. I'm not surprised that Connery decided to hang it up after starring in this disaster.

slightlymad22 Finishing my look back at the career of Sean Connery, I come to the last movie he ever acted in. The League Of Extraordinary Gentleman (2003)Plot In A Paragraph: A group of famous contemporary fantasy, science fiction, and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.I have never seen this movie in its entirety, as I walked out of the cinema about an hour in.The main thing I remember about this movie was Connery signed on when he didn't understand the script. He was offered roles in The Matrix and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, but passed as he didn't understand the scripts. So when offered another screenplay he didn't quite get, he took it, hoping it would be a huge hit as the other two were. Connery and the director hated each other. In Empire Magazine, Jason Flemyng was asked if the bust-ups between Sean Connery and director Stephen Norrington were as bad as reported. He replied that they were much worse "My favourite bust-up was in Venice. The League had to walk from Captain Nemo's boat down the street, Magnificent Seven-style. At the end of the take Norrington asked them to do it again, to which Sean shouted 'What? You want us to do that again?' He replied, 'For eighteen million dollars I don't think it's too much to ask you to walk down a road.' To which Connery's reply was unprintable."I found this hard going, and contemplated turning it off more than once. It all defies all logic!! I'm not against movies being a tad unrealistic, but this takes the biscuit. The most interesting thing about viewing this was I have come to the conclusion that Mr Hyde obviously buys his pants at the same place as The Hulk does. Connery hated making the movie, and the finished product so much, he retired from acting.The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen grossed $66 million at the domestic box office to end 2003 as the 44th highest grossing movie of the year.

CherryBlossomBoy ...because the subject is actually so cool it deserves a much better treatment.And yes, this 2003 edition (currently the only one) is a complete crap. Apart from the concept, no redeeming values whatsoever! If there was a court martial for big budgeted cinematic atrocities, the authors of this film would deservedly have found themselves in the dock. Specifically James Robinson, the screenwriter, Dan Laustsen, the director of photography and Stephen Norrington, the director. Toss in the producer, the art director and the editor, just for a good measure.It's incredible how an interesting idea, with all the colorful characters from the most popular 19th century novels, can get developed so poorly and be given such a shabby storyline. The villain the League is pitted against is way below their special skills and traits. That's why they're given very little to do other than bicker among themselves. The way their dialog and exposition is written is frivolous, offhand, tedious and inane, trying to be both goofy and smart. It made me cringe every now and then. The screenplay obviously never made it beyond the first draft and they probably patched it on the set as well.It's even more incredible how bleak and muddled the picture looks. When I think of Victorian era, I think of splendor and vivid colors. The fact that the story is set in a war time and that many of the characters emerge from horror novels doesn't mean that the picture has to be ruined to convey the atmosphere! Here it's mostly gray/black, with occasional yellow overtones during the scenes in Africa, and with one of the worst orange-and-teal filters I've ever seen, when they are at the sea.Even if the picture was alright, the shots have been poorly framed. The camera, for one, is simply too close or too zoomed-in most of the time. Overall experience watching this was claustrophobic. The director couldn't make use of the sets to save his life. Furthermore he hasn't got a good grasp on how to direct action in an epic blockbuster. We're talking about the guy who directed "Blade". What he did in "Blade" doesn't work here because this is not hi-tech sci-fi flick and the backgrounds are not dark. Too many cuts and illogical camera angles during fights add to confusion and put a strain on the eyes in this setting. It was especially jarring in contrast with the rest of the film when nothing happened and they just walked from place to place and exchanged silly conversations.For those who wonder how an interesting premise could bomb so colossally at the box office, look no further than these basic aspects. There is no elaborate reason here. I'm sure the general public wouldn't mind a nice Victorian fantasy. Maybe not everybody knows who Dorian Gray or Captain Nemo are, for instance, but everybody likes epic adventures. "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" was not a victim of a missed concept or public ignorance. It failed because the basic laws of making a watchable film were ignored.Obviously, it was clear to people in charge in Hollywood, because none of the people I named earlier found any meaningful work ever since. And, if rumours are true, "The League" does have a future, and maybe the next film crew does it justice.

viennashade The trailers make this look good. I didn't watch them until after seeing the movie, but if I had I would have been expecting an action-packed roller coaster ride! No doubt they were made by a company expert in movie trailers. without the lame plot.It has the feel of having been written by a teenager. Not to say that teenagers haven't written some good stuff, but I think it was about as fantastical as a world created by some dude one night in his underwear for dungeons and dragons.That there would be such teamwork (with no promise of serious monetary gain, no less) pushes the boundaries of incredulity farther than I will allow. This was an extraordinarily well-behaved and cooperative (though disorganized) band of criminals. I think the League of Women Voters might have made a more formidable enemy. With no real motivation, they were not only willing but gung ho to do this thing, at all costs. Even Mr. Hyde could be easily sweet-talked into submission.Broken down into its simple elements, there is nothing cunning about the plot. In fact, all I could do was find fault with it. It seems like it would have been easier just to get their samples individually, without assembling them for this pretend mission.No suspense until the second half, but by then I was already wishing it would be over, and I kept wishing that from there on in. In fact, the parts at the end I was really hating.So many things didn't add up. I know it's supposed to be an "alternate reality" premise, but things need to at least make sense, or have a plausible explanation. Instead, they just seemed to be hastily making things up things as they went along, to try to explain away this or that discrepancy, resulting in a jumbled mess.