The Three Musketeers (1993)

Very Cool!!!

Excellent but underrated film

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

OK, this isn't actually the fab cartoon series Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, but Stephen Herek's Disney film is basically a live action cartoon.Starring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell and Oliver Platt as Aramis-Athos-D'Artagnan and Porthos respectively, story is a fictional load of guff involving Tim Curry's evil Cardinal Richelieu trying to usurp Hugh O'Conor's King Louis XIII of France. Enter the last remaining Musketeers, sworn to serve their King, who after being joined by D'Artagnan set about foiling dastardly plans whilst admiring heaving bosoms.There's a couple of half decent sword fighting scenes, the photography (Dean Semler) and costuming is first rate, and undeniably there's a sense of fun about the whole thing; even if some of it is not intentional. But it's a pretty flat experience as valid entertainment, almost every casting decision is wrong, with O'Donnell and Sheen ridiculous beyond belief, the plot is wafer thin, the dialogue awful and the running time is padded out with music that hinders rather than enhances the pic. Michael Wincott (Captain Rochefort) and Rebecca De Mornay's (Milady De Winter/Sabine) breasts come out of the production in credit, but really you should seek out the Muskehounds as a better alternative for cartoon swordery. 4/10

After seeing almost every version of The Three Musketeers i watched this version expecting to be bored to death. But how can a movie with Tim Curry and Charlie Sheen be boring ? This version was fun to watch from start to finish even though it had some bad choices ( Hugh' O'Connor, Chris O'Donnell) the storyline was OK and the acting brilliant. Athos , Porthos and Aramis were finally portrayed by good actors and Curry was a scheming bastard but funny at the same time.I still have to see a good D'Artagnan and this still wasn't it , O'Donnell came out and the least important character and his acting didn't help.All in all, a fun version and i hoped it would be the last but it looks like i was wrong. Too bad they didn't the Man in the Iron Mask with these actors, it would have been hilarious and we wouldn't have to see the DiCaprio version with some has beens Musketeers.

Why are musketeers always portrayed as swordsmen and not musketeers with muskets? "The Three Musketeers" tale, based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, gets watered down every time it's re-interpreted, so it's no surprise that this version, produced by Walt Disney studios, is wafer thin.Luckily no one takes the film too seriously, comedic actors like Charlie Sheen and Oliver Platt having fun winking at the audience, the screenwriters packing as much witty lines and jokes as they can into the script, and the villain, played by the ever reliable Tim Currey, hamming it up as a sex crazed priest.Ironically, the only character who looks bored is our star, actor Chris O'Donnell. Chris plays D'Artagnan, the film's hero, but it's a thankless role that requires him to play the straight man to the far more charismatic three musketeers.7.5/10 – Has Disney ever released a great live-action feature film? I think only David Lynch's "Straight Story" comes close.Worth one viewing.

Carping about the lack of fidelity of Disney's The Three Musketeers to Dumas' book or to history misses the point. It's not *our* history. It is (implicitly) set in a parallel world, possibly - no, probably - the same one in which the delightfully silly sword-romp At Sword's Point (1952 ) is set. And this too is a delightfully silly sword-romp, not to be taken seriously in the least.Almost every time the story is revisited, the character of Athos gets another softening. In the book he murdered (or attempted to murder) his wife out-of-hand, without waiting for her to regain consciousness and try to explain (what an SOB!), and still hates even her memory. The relationship never comes up in Fairbanks Sr's The Three Musketeers, and is barely hinted at in a reaction-shot in The Iron Mask - which still manages to make clear that there's some real bad history there. By the 1948 version, he "merely" repudiated her - and never ceased to love her. In the 1993 version he believed her guilty of murder and turned her over to her enemies, and grieved for her ever after.I don't have a favorite version of The Three Musketeers - each and every one I have seen is flawed, usually in different ways. But this one makes a nice casual treat, particularly on a double bill followed by At Sword's Point.