The Three Musketeers

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Audience Member Much better than I anticipated. A musical with several comedic moments, yet somehow manages to retain many of the key points of the original plot. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member musical version of this, not 4 me. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Well, this is a new version of the classic Dumas story that I hadn't seen before. It's an enjoyable romp, pretty faithful to the original storyline...and, honestly, just kinda silly with the humor and songs. Not a bad diversion by any means! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member The Three Musketeers is a cute movie. It is a bit silly at times, due to the appearance of the Ritz brothers. It has more singing than I had imagined it would. The sword fights are fun to watch. I recommend it to any fan of the Ritz brothers, Don Ameche, or swashbuckler classics. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie was done as a musical comedy. Probably for that reason it only deals with the first half of The Three Musketeers story, which ends on a high note with the principal characters all still alive. The gimmick with this is that the real three musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis are replaced by three cooks in the form of the Ritz Brothers. Don Ameche is very dashing, handsome, swashbuckling and tuneful in this, all of which one does not expect from Don Ameche. Although Ameche was adept with comedy he does not provide it here. That all comes from the Ritz Brothers mainly with slapstick. The drama inherent in the original story leaks through and builds tension the way Dumas must have intended but the villainy is reduced for lightness of mood and that makes the heroes that much less heroic. All the production values in this are first rate and the sets are especially impressive. The action is OK. The sword fights are brisk but have nothing outstanding in them. The chase sequences, as was the practice at the time, have the film speed increased to increase the excitement. (It took the chase sequence in Bullitt in 1968 to make film makers see that filming action without speeding up the film imparts a real sense of mass to the items that are in action.) This movie may not appeal but it was of its time, when the trauma of the depression was still very close and the specter of world war loomed large. Audiences needed fluff and this movie in the way it was made provided that. As far as movies go, The Three Musketeers has been done better but I think you will find this a fairly entertaining, though somewhat strange, version of it. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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