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:

Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson

4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Matthew Macfadyen	...	Athos
Milla Jovovich	...	Milady de Winter
Helen George	...	Blonde
Christian Oliver	...	Venetian Nobleman
Luke Evans	...	Aramis
Ray Stevenson	...	Porthos
Til Schweiger	...	Cagliostro
Markus Brandl	...	Sergeant Venetian Guard
Orlando Bloom	...	Duke of Buckingham
Logan Lerman	...	D'Artagnan
Dexter Fletcher	...	D'Artagnan's Father
Jane Perry	...	D'Artagnan's Mother
Mads Mikkelsen	...	Rochefort
Andy Gathergood	...	Drunk
Susanne Wolff	...	Cougar

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:

murderess | musketeer | duel | cardinal richelieu | guard | 

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Taglines:

Every legend has a new beginning.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sequences of adventure action violence

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [France] Official site [Japan]

Country:

Germany France UK USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 October 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

Los tres mosqueteros

Filming Locations:

Schleißheim Palace, Oberschleißheim, Bavaria, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

$75,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

€2,377,564 (Germany), 4 September 2011, Wide Release

Opening Weekend USA:

$8,674,452, 23 October 2011, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$20,377,913

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$132,274,484

Company Credits

Production Co:

Summit Entertainment,Constantin Film,Impact Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

110 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Datasat Dolby Surround 7.1

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the scene following the Musketeers' fight with the Cardinal's men, d'Artagnan and the Musketeers walk through the portal of the "rathaus" (town hall) in Bamberg, Bavaria in Germany. The rathaus sits astride the river Regnitz which runs through the city. To the left in the background, a half timber house that seems to float over the river can be seen. This is the Hotel Restaurant St. Nepomuk.

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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: You're reckless, arrogant, impetuous, probably be dead by sundown, but I like you, lad.

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Crazy Credits

At the end of the movie, the first credits have a dedication,"For Bernd", referencing Bernd Eichinger, who died in January of 2011. He was producer of 4 of the Resident Evil films, also directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.

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Connections

Version of The Three Musketeers (1968)

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Soundtracks

When We Were Young
Performed by Take That
Written by Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen, Robbie Williams
(c) Sony ATV Music Publishing / EMI Music Publishing / Universal Music Publishing / Farrell
Courtesy of Polydor UK - A Division of Universal Music

User Reviews

There is stupid logic, no logic and then there is...

The three musketeers, and by god am I disappointed. I mean don't get me wrong I excepted a simple story with typical elements, nice fight scenes and a great cast that can act great. Except for the actually really cool looking fights I didn't get anything, the cast is great but the dialogs and script are so horrible even Christoph Waltz couldn't save them. The story is all over the place, you don't get to know any of the musketeers, or barely a character at all and the biggest problem: A movie doesn't have to be realistic for me but it has to make sense in his own universe of the movie (like Matrix its not realistic but logical). The three musketeers plays with the rules of physics, logic and sense of a human being like they were beanbags. Oh and surprise surprise: 3D is useless, but thats nothing new tell me a movie that really had to have 3D except for avatar or maybe tron.

Movie with a simple plot fine , one that makes no sense at all, you better don't count on my vote.

So if you can enjoy a pointless excuse of a story for some nice swordplay, have fun.