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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

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Reviews Counted: 165 Fresh: 27  Rotten:138 Average Rating: 3.9/10
 
Consensus: Just ordinary. LXG is a great premise ruined by poor execution. Just ordinary. LXG is a great premise ruined by poor execution. more
 
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Theatrical Release: Jul 11, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $66,327,144
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 GENTLEMEN. Quatermain's extraordinary League is comprised of Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah),... [More]
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 GENTLEMEN. Quatermain's extraordinary League is comprised of Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah), Dracula vampiress Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), an invisible man Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran), American secret service agent Sawyer (Shane West), Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend), and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Jason Flemyng). Richard Roxburgh ("Moulin Rouge") plays the League's enigmatic recruiter, M. The League members are staunch individualists, outcasts in fact, with checkered pasts and singular gifts that have been both blessing and curse. Now they must learn to trust each other and work as a team for the very hope of civilization. With little preparation and no time to lose, they will be transported via Captain Nemo's extraordinary submarine, the Nautilus, to the frontline of defense: Venice, Italy. There, a masked madman known as the Fantom plans to sabotage a conference of world leaders by setting off a domino chain of explosions, sinking the entire city. The threat is catastrophic, the risks are staggering. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has 9 hours to save the world. Based on the acclaimed comic books by Alan Moore ("From Hell") and Kevin O'Neill, the film is directed by Stephen Norrington ("Blade") from a screenplay by James Dale Robinson. Don Murphy ("From Hell", "Natural Born Killers") and Trevor Albert ("Groundhog Day", "Bedazzled") are the producers, and Sean Connery and Mark Gordon ("Saving Private Ryan") are executive producers. The co-producer is Michael Nelson. Principal photography on the 20-week shoot occurred almost entirely in Prague, with additional shooting in Malta and Los Angeles. [Less]

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Starring: Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Shane West, Stuart Townsend

Director: Stephen Norrington
Screenwriter: James Dale Robinson
Producer: Don Murphy
Composer: Trevor Jones

DVD Info

Release:

Apr 1, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • Dolby Surround - Spanish
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French

Additional Release Material:

  • Alternate Scenes - Deleted Scenes (12)
  • Audio Commentary - 1. Jackie West - Costume Designer; Steve Johnson - Make-Up Effects; Ian Hunter, Matthew Gratzner - Miniatures Creators
  • 2. Trevor Albert - Producer; Peta Wilson, Jason Flemyng, Tony Curran, Shane West - Stars
  • Behind the Scenes - "Making Of"

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07/14/07 03:41 AM
Joe Lozito
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A stiff.

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04/26/07 02:25 PM
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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So little of real consequence is at stake that you'll have plenty of time to notice how the names on not one but two tombstones are misspelled.

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03/01/07 03:35 AM
Daniel Eagan
Film Journal International
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12/30/06 05:01 AM
Danny Graydon
Empire Magazine
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... the effects and sets are marvellously fantastical and there are one or two neat comical allusions to the heroes' literary roots. But where's the excitement, the thrills, the tension, the style?

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02/09/06 03:16 AM
Derek Adams
Time Out
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The problem with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is the filmmakers tried to give everyone a main storyline and ended up diluting everything.

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12/06/05 07:47 PM
Kevin Carr
Film Threat
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The League is a project that was doomed from the moment the studio threw out Alan Moore comic and decided that they knew better.

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03/05/05 10:33 PM
Ethan Alter
NYC Film Critic
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Quelques moments sont légèrement mieux et même intéressants, mais dans l’ensemble, vous allez complètement gaspiller votre argent et votre temps avec ce film.

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12/17/04 09:37 AM
Louis-Jérôme Cloutier
Panorama
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Just don't think too much between the super battles. This is, after all, very comic book.

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10/15/04 06:21 PM
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan
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10/07/04 07:30 PM
Tony Medley
tonymedley.com
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[Director] Norrington has spent too much effort trying to include too much of the comic book.

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09/20/04 05:28 PM
Mark Collette
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)
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If you stripped this film of its effects, not even the platform would remain. Unplug the computer and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen disappears.

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07/06/04 10:12 PM
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)
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No, no, no, and, a thousand times, no.

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05/16/04 04:25 PM
Martin Scribbs
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02/12/04 05:15 PM
James O'Ehley
Sci-Fi Movie Page
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League ... isn’t a great movie, but it provides more fun that a lot of the other mediocre superhero movies ...

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02/08/04 09:37 AM
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly
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If there are more movies like LXG on the horizon, the genre will wear out its welcome before you can say sequel.

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01/05/04 09:07 PM
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
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Robinson and Norrington approach literature like lazy high schoolers in an English class, using the material when it suits them and ignoring it when it doesn't.

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01/05/04 10:36 AM
Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly
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Some might say that this is a mindless summer action film and it’s just for fun, and they would be mostly right, except for the fact that it’s not very much fun.

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01/02/04 03:51 AM
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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Takes a very promising idea and executes its so poorly that all of the joy is drained completely away.

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12/30/03 01:21 PM
Scott Nash
Three Movie Buffs
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When not even Sean Connery in a role tailor-made for him can spark a movie into life, you know something's gone terribly wrong.

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11/25/03 08:59 PM
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com
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