The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.4/10   

Director:

Stephen Norrington

Escritores (WGA):

Alan Moore (comic books) and
Kevin O'Neill (comic books) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

11 julio 2003 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Fantasía | Ciencia-Ficción

Frase comercial:

Prepare for the Extraordinary

Plot:

In an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, SF and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.

Plot Keywords:

Captain Nemo | Invisible Man | American | Crushed To Death | Great White Hunter

Premios:

6 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Heavens, it wasn't THAT bad!

Reparto

Sean Connery	...	Allan Quatermain
Naseeruddin Shah	...	Captain Nemo
Peta Wilson	...	Mina Harker
Tony Curran	...	Rodney Skinner (The Invisible Man)
Stuart Townsend	...	Dorian Gray
Shane West	...	Tom Sawyer
Jason Flemyng	...	Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
Richard Roxburgh	...	M
Max Ryan	...	Dante
Tom Goodman-Hill	...	Sanderson Reed
David Hemmings	...	Nigel
Terry O'Neill	...	Ishmael
Rudolf Pellar	...	Draper
Robert Willox	...	Constable Dunning
Robert Orr	...	Running Officer

También conocida como:

Die Liga der außergewöhnlichen Gentlemen (Alemania)
LXG (USA) (promotional abbreviation)
LXG: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (USA) (trailer title)
Liga výjimecných (Czech Republic)
The League (USA) (promotional title)
La liga de los hombres extraordinarios (Spain) [es]
La liga extraordinaria (Argentina) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of fantasy violence, language and innuendo.

Duración:

110 min

País:

USA | Alemania | Czech Republic | UK

Idioma:

Inglés | Alemán | Italiano

Color:

Negro y Blanco | Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Iceland:12 | Malaysia:U | USA:PG-13 (certificate #39870) | South Korea:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:12 | Canada:G (Québec) | Canada:PG | Chile:TE | Denmark:11 | Finland:K-11 | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIB | Hungary:14 | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:M | Norway:11 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG (cut) | Spain:7 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of the Grisons) | UK:12A (original rating) | UK:12 (video rating) (2003) | USA:PG-13

Locaciones de Filmación:

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Compañía:

Angry Films

Trivialidades:

During the destruction of Venice, there is a brief shot of the footwell of the NemoMobile. Shown are three pedals, however, Tom Sawyer slams his foot on the gas pedal without ever touching the clutch. This is because, a) The NemoMobile used an automatic transmission and, b) the pedal on the far left is in fact, not a clutch pedal, but rather a second brake pedal. By having independent braking to the left and right side of the car, the stunt driver could achieve certain tricks not normally attributable to a 22 foot long vehicle.

Errores:

Continuidad: In Kenya, the last assassin to be shot by Quatermaine is dragged back into town. Between being thrown on the ground and committing suicide, the people around him move, and appear and disappear between shots.

Citas:

[first lines]
Sanderson Reed: [to coachman] Don't... wander... off.

Conexiones de Película:

Spoofed in "The Venture Bros.: Past Tense (#1.11)" (2004)

Banda de Sonido:

Son of Africa

Heavens, it wasn't THAT bad!

I've been reading the comments page in a somewhat bemused fashion. It seems to be divided between people who don't like the movie because it's not enough like the original graphic novel and people who don't like it because they've never heard of half of the characters that are members of the League. The latter seems to me to be an unutterably silly reason for disliking a film. Does nobody read the classics anymore? Nobody reads Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? I find that difficult to believe. As to the former--not enough like the graphic novel, in other words--just how in the heck can a screenwriter accommodate the dark and twisted visions of Alan Moore in a two-hour Hollywood movie, anyway?

I don't believe that one can compare anything written by Alan Moore to what ends up on the screen being ostensibly "based on the graphic novel". (The same applies to FROM HELL, which is another one most people pan, and one which I think is under-appreciated even though the style is breathtaking. I don't even want to think about the reaction that will ensue once THE WATCHMEN comes out!)

What seems to have been missed by most people is that this movie is about style as opposed to substance. It's based on a graphic novel. That's a fancy way of saying it's based on a comic book. On that level, the film succeeds admirably. The characters are archetypes of their literary forbears. They aren't supposed to be, strictly speaking, human. Of course the plot is grandiose, impractical, and over-the-top. Hello? Aren't most comic books like that? Good heavens, isn't most of STAR WARS?

I don't claim that this is a masterpiece. I do claim that's it's fun to watch if one approaches it with a willing suspension of disbelief. For a couple of bucks shelled out at the DVD rental shop, it takes one to a different world for close to two hours. On that level, it's worth a rental. It's also worth a rental, once one watches the movie, to listen to the commentary from various actors and to realize just how well these so-called "unknowns" do assorted accents that aren't even close to their own. Plus the golfing anecdotes are amusing. (And I don't even like golfing.)

This ain't CASABLANCA. Nor is it TITANIC, for which I eternally thank the gods. (Now, THERE was an overhyped piece of inaccurate trash that pretended to be history, but I digress.) But it's kind of fun, anyway, as long as one doesn't take it too seriously.