The Three Musketeers (2011)

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

Director:

Paul W.S. Anderson

Writers:

Alex Litvak (screenplay), Andrew Davies (screenplay),

Stars:

Matthew Macfadyen, Milla Jovovich, Ray Stevenson

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Matthew Macfadyen	...	Athos
Milla Jovovich	...	Milady de Winter
Luke Evans	...	Aramis
Ray Stevenson	...	Porthos
Orlando Bloom	...	Duke of Buckingham
Gabriella Wilde	...	Constance
James Corden	...	Planchet
Logan Lerman	...	D'Artagnan
Freddie Fox	...	King Louis XIII of France
Mads Mikkelsen	...	Rochefort
Carsten Norgaard	...	Jussac
Til Schweiger	...	Cagliostro
Dexter Fletcher	...	D'Artagnan's Father
Jane Perry	...	D'Artagnan's Mother
Ben Moor	...	Tailor

Storyline

After failing in a scheme to steal Leonardo Da Vinci's airship blueprints, the Musketeers are disbanded by Cardinal Richelieu leaving Athos, Porthos and Aramis on the streets of Paris. In the meantime, the young, reckless and ambitious D'Artagnan has set off from Gascony with dreams of becoming a musketeer himself, not realizing that they have been disbanded. In no time, D'Artagnan manages to offend Athos, Porthos and Aramis on different occasions and challenges them all to duels. However before the duels can take place they are attacked by guards, trying to arrest them for illegal dueling. The ex-musketeers and D'Artagnan fight off the soldiers, leading to the four men becoming a band with the motto of "All for one, and one for all". Count Richelieu is not only determined to be rid of the musketeers, but also schemes with Athos' former lover Milady to undermine the reign of King Louis and his wife. The musketeers and D'Artagnan are determined to save the royal family and France ...

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Plot Keywords:

musketeer | duel | airship | gascony | king | 

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Taglines:

Every legend has a new beginning.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sequences of adventure action violence

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [fr] Official site [jp]

Country:

Germany France UK USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 October 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

Los tres mosqueteros

Filming Locations:

Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

$75,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$8,674,452 (USA) (21 October 2011)

Gross:

$20,315,324 (USA) (16 December 2011)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Constantin Film Produktion, Impact Pictures, Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

110 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Dolby Digital Datasat

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Christoph Waltz (Cardinal Richelieu) has the same birthday (October 4) as Charlton Heston, who played Richelieu in The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge.

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Goofs

Milady discovers the razor-sharp, high-tension wires protecting the jewels by throwing a ribbon in the air that is cut in multiple pieces. As she does acrobat movements to work around the wires, she also cuts pieces off her own dress. As she reaches the end, there are no pieces on the floor behind her.

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Quotes

Porthos: Planchet, what are you?
Planchet: Completes a lot of waste of space sir.
Porthos: And?
Planchet: As much as use as a fart in a bottle, sir.
Porthos: Right.

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Connections

Version of The Three Musketeers (1973)

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Soundtracks

"When We Were Young"
Performed by Take That

User Reviews

Really?

I actually expected this movie to be bad based on the previews, and after the first 5 minutes, which were kind of entertaining, I thought "maybe this won't be so bad". But every attempt at humor is completely dry, and the story is told in the worst way possible. Aside from the opening scene, everything added to the story in an attempt to make it different from the standard Three Musketeer plot is completely lame. And even Orlando Bloom acted like a rookie! I don't know how on earth this managed to get financed. If you want some real entertainment, watch the 1993 version, in which Tim Curry is the best evil Cardinal ever!