The comic prefers to speak its mind where the big-screen adaptation would prefer to blow your brains out of your ear with a rather loud BOOM.
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07/16/03
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: Action/Adventure
US 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... [More]
Starring: Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Shane West
Director: Stephen Norrington
Reviews for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
61 - 80 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Freaks and heroes from Victorian fiction team up in an adequate, somewhat muddled meta-fictional superhero flick.
07/16/03
First, they aren't all extraordinary. Second, they aren't all gentlemen. And third, they're not in much of a movie.
07/16/03
While the gentlemen are extraordinary, the plot is anything but.
07/15/03
Even if, per Wilde, all art is quite useless, it need not be quite as useless as this.
07/15/03
The end of “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” provides ample material for a sequel. Too bad they didn’t make a film that deserves to have a sequel.
07/15/03
An extraordinary bore.
07/14/03
by turns tedious or cheesy or, for unendurably long swaths of time, both.
07/14/03
Forgettably destined to join the pantheon of Decidedly Ordinary Summer Popcorn Movies.
07/14/03
This film is odd, loud, unintentionally funny and quite awful.
07/14/03
Top CriticIt could be introduced as Exhibit A in the case against digital effects technology...
07/14/03
Every bit of this vastly entertaining production seems to be infused with the snap of real imagination. It's a wonderful piece of work.
07/14/03
It isn't compelling, it isn't interesting, it isn't fun, it isn't exciting and it makes little sense.
07/13/03
A potentially extraordinary film drowned in a cloying soup of mediocrity.
07/13/03
An extraordinary mess.
07/12/03
With such strident resistance to hyperbolic, risk-taking absurdity, such a film can hardly ever aspire to rise above the ranks of the merely ordinary.
07/12/03
Norrington fails to convincingly propound the concept by disallowing the viewer to buy into the factitious reasons all of these foreign characters are being thrown together.
07/11/03
A noticeable absence of common sense overpowers the inherent sense of adventure.
07/11/03
The film is decidedly more involving than [most of the other summer movie extravaganzas], holds more intriguingly original conceits, and--here's a refreshing change of pace--keeps its running time well below the two-hour mark.
07/11/03
Latest News for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
December 14, 2007:
Steve Norrington to Direct Clash of the Titans Remake
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March 21, 2007:
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