Somebody decided to make a new Three Musketeers movie. I suppose in this day of rehashing old plots it's at least a good place to start. I had seen the trailer, I forget why, and thought it looked suitably silly so last night I went and saw it.
I loved it. Sure, if historical accuracy or any pretension thereof is your thing, you will end up twitching violently, but we're going to assume for the sake of argument you can deal with that if you know it's coming. To give you an idea of the flavor, take the original book by Dumas, introduce it to the Foglios (of Girl Genius fame), and put Errol Flynn in charge of the whole shebang.
While I haven't read the novel for a while and disclaim perfect knowledge, one thing that struck me as significant is that despite some of the more creative licenses taken with the setting, the plot set-up and characterizations remain essentially identical to the original. Of course, it's a well known story, so there are limits to what is practical to change, but still.
I admit I have a fairly low taste in movies at times. But I tend to think of Dumas as one of the original action writers, so I'm even inclined to think he would have thoroughly appreciated this take on his story.
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