The Three Musketeers 2011

Critics score:
24 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: Call it the Robert Downey Jr. Meets Sherlock Holmes Effect. A classic popular adventure gets overblown, juiced-up, and generally CGI-ified. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Seriously: What the hell? Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: In the worst possible case, this could go on and on, but please, let's hope it doesn't. Read more

Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out: For the latest update of Alexandre Dumas's novel, Paul W.S. Anderson has added flying battleships and elaborate diamond heists. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: This version of the Musketeers story can't decide if it wants to be an old-fashioned tale of swashbuckling adventure and palace intrigue or a cheeky, effects-heavy rethink of some iconic characters a la the Guy Ritchie-directed Sherlock Holmes. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Reader: 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 more

Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly: Read more

Eric D. Snider, Film.com: Every time you think it can't get any stupider, it gets right up in your face, calls you "bro," and gets stupider. Read more

Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter: 3D swashbuckler wields a disappointingly blunt sword. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Even the most liberal viewer is likely to echo Milady's thoughts of D'Artagnan: "You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart." Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: 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 more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Jovovich tries hard to be terribly, terribly wicked, but her performance finds a hitherto unknown middle ground between Divine in Pink Flamingos and Halle Berry in Catwoman that's just embarrassing. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: One for all and all for nowt. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The very existence of this film illustrates barrel-scraping desperation of the Hollywood kind. Read more

Leslie Felperin, Variety: A very 2011 take on Alexandre Dumas' classic that feels weirdly dated already. Read more