The Three Musketeers
Summit Entertainment | Release Date: October 21, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
8
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
40
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesOct 26, 2011
Still, once you accept Paul W.S. Anderson's entirely unnecessary adaptation on its own terms (nonsensical, underachieving), it has its limited charms, which include a snigger-inducing alphabet soup of accents, a standout rooftop swordfight, and British comedian James Corden as the Musketeers' put-upon manservant. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyKeith StaskiewiczOct 26, 2011
It floats, but it's mainly filled with hot air. Read full review
25
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOct 26, 2011
This is a once-in-a-lifetime fiasco, an epic fail like none we have seen this year, a bad idea by a very bad director and a career-crippling credit for all concerned. You don't want to miss it. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen HoldenOct 22, 2011
The campy new screen adaptation of The Three Musketeers has all the reality and visceral excitement of a $75 million literary theme park dotted with fancy villages heavily patrolled by security. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyOct 22, 2011
All the borderline pantomime acting and wigged buffoonery is deliberate and silly, but The Three Musketeers remains charmless, a romp brought down by its lead-footed script. Read full review
35
MovielineAlison WillmoreOct 21, 2011
It's not the addition of airships and male dangly earrings that make Paul W.S. Anderson's take on Alexandre Dumas' classic, much-adapted adventure such a drag, it's everything else - the incoherence, the anvil-heavy dialogue, the lack of anything beyond the broadest of characterizations. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsOct 21, 2011
Beyond being unable to decide what kind of Musketeers movie it wants to be, Anderson's adaptation seems determined to underachieve as both heavy spectacle and light adventure. It's two mediocrities for the price of one. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineJaime N. ChristleyOct 21, 2011
A moment's patience is soon rewarded by Anderson's vast store of rich, intoxicating imagery. Read full review
50
Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoOct 21, 2011
Trash-action director Paul W.S. Anderson's (Alien vs. Predator) finds no cultural purpose for this rather literal adaptation of the Musketeers, but it's not so horrible it deserved to be protected from the cold eye of film critics. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderMichael WilmingtonOct 20, 2011
This one is overblown, over-dressed, and grandiosely dopey, packed with gargantuan sets and ludicrous action scenes and shot in unusually dark and dingy 3-D. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsOct 20, 2011
This latest version is le pits. Read full review
40
Time OutBen KenigsbergOct 18, 2011
Muskets and swords are a bit old-fashioned for the director of "Resident Evil" - Paul W.S. Anderson has added flying battleships and elaborate diamond heists. (With material as shopworn as this, an anachronizing approach seems as valid as any.) Read full review
60
EmpireDan JolinOct 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… Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungSep 25, 2011
3D swashbuckler wields a disappointingly blunt sword. Read full review
50
VarietyLeslie FelperinSep 25, 2011
A very 2011 take on Alexandre Dumas' classic that feels weirdly dated already. Although adequately entertaining thanks to lavish production values and game supporting perfs, this anodyne adaptation lacks a killer hook that would help it cross over to a demographic beyond action buffs and fanboys. Read full review
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