Movie Review: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[inverarity]

It sucked.

I've never read Alan Moore's comic. Was his story this ridiculous? It couldn't have been.

This movie was just a big cheese-fest of insulting stupid, with A-list actors trying to keep a straight face amidst the overwhelming special effects.

It was not quite Transformers-level badstupid, but it was baaaaad.

Comments

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

That's too bad. I'd been thinking of tracking this one down because the premise of all these characters interacting together intrigued me (though "grown-up Tom Sawyer" sounds like an oxymoron). Could some tastes find it to be "so bad it's good"?

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

I think it takes itself too seriously to be so bad it's good.

There are some okay fight scenes, but other than that, I saw no redeeming value in it.

[(Anonymous)]

The book was considerably better (when isn't it?). It was still pretty far fetched but pulled it off well. Fans either Hated this movie or just took it for what it was and tried to forgive the rest. If your really iintersted in the characters find the book.
bellanca

[kerneyhead.livejournal.com]

The comic was not this ridiculous from what I remember (it has been years). In fact it made fun of Victorian mores fairly effectively and cleverly and there was some questionable content, namely Mina Harker 'recruiting' the Invisible Man from a girls school where there had been a number of 'Immaculate Conceptions'.

It reminded me of Kim Newman's Anno Dracula, where Dr. Henry Jekyl presides over a medical inquest and that consulting detective, Mr. Holmes, is unavailible due to 'differences with the present goverment'.