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League of Extra-Ordinary Gentlemen, The
Human Events, Jul 28, 2003
Quality: ** Acceptability: -2
RATING: PG-13
STARRING: Sean Connery, Peta Wilson, Shane West, Naseeruddin Shah, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, and Jason FIemyng
DIRECTOR: Stephen Norrington
PRODUCERS: Don Murphy
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Trevor Albert and Mark Gordon
WRITER: James Dale Robinson
BASED ON THE GRAPHIC NOVEL BY: Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
DISTRIBUTOR: 20th Century Fox
GENRE: Science Fiction/Fantasy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older children and adults
SUMMARY: The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen stars Sean Connery as adventurer Allan Quatermain, who teams up with six superheroes to stop a madman from controlling the world. Despite some positive moral and redemptive elements, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen may disappoint action fans and contains some paganism, light foul language and very strong action violence.
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, set in 1899, opens well enough. After some action set pieces, Sean Connery's character, Allan Quaterman of King Solomon's Mines, is asked to help England stop a madman trying to start a world war. Though it tries hard to capture the thrills of comic book movies like Spider-Man and the X-Men movies, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen fails to generate their emotional, dramatic power and richness. Also, though there are some positive moral and redemptive/Christian elements due to its setting, there are references to Hinduism and witchdoctors among the heroes.
CONTENT: Mixed pagan worldview with moral, redemptive, Christian, and occult elements, including positive references to God, as well as some patriotic elements, and one selfish character expresses humanist sentiments; about 11 light obscenities and five light profanities, including use of British curse "bloody"; some very strong action violence; references to past sexual rendezvous; upper male nudity; and alcohol use; brief smoking
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