It's fairly tough to enjoy popcorn entertainment when the words "WHY ARE THEY...?" and "WHAT THE HELL...?" are constantly cascading through your brain.
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07/11/03
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
81 - 100 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
In the end, what's most extraordinary about Gentlemen is that despite its preposterous leaps of logic, it somehow still emerges as a reasonably entertaining summer blockbuster.
07/11/03
This isn't a blend of modern and classic so much as a collision.
07/11/03
Top CriticThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen just plain reeks.
07/11/03
Top CriticNumbingly ordinary.
07/11/03
This is awfulness of an utterly assembly-line nature.
07/11/03
A triumph of art direction.
07/11/03
The movie, alas, isn't extraordinary at all; it's just dull, a little mystifying, and more than a little cheesy.
07/11/03
The League is a movie to enjoy, then to root for and finally to be disappointed by.
07/11/03
Packed with special effects and loaded down with mostly lame attempts at literary witticism.
07/11/03
Most studios aim for movies, particularly summer movies, that can be enjoyed by both kids and their parents. LXG can be enjoyed by children and ... their grandparents.
07/11/03
Except for Connery, who is every inch the lion in winter, nothing here feels authentic.
07/11/03
An entertaining special-effects action extravaganza based on an amusing premise
07/11/03
Ill-conceived, sloppily directed, shoddily acted, LXG looks like the work of a confederacy of dunces.
07/11/03
On the big screen this concept looks thin and at times downright farcical.
07/11/03
Moore's dark vision has predictably been diluted for mass consumption, but that doesn't begin to explain why the disjointed storyline is so full of holes.
07/11/03
Works wonderfully as a popcorn picture.
07/11/03
League isn't a terrible movie -- it's often thrilling -- but by the end, the experience is numbing.
07/11/03
A concept whose promise is never quite fulfilled.
07/11/03
Suspension of disbelief is as necessary as popcorn when approaching a summer comic-book movie, but LXG is too preposterous even for this fantastical genre.
07/11/03
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December 14, 2007:
Steve Norrington to Direct Clash of the Titans Remake
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March 21, 2007:
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