Review – The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

What if we took a gaggle of late-19th-century literary characters and packed them all into the same comic book? Actually, as concepts go I’ve seen worse. But as movies go, worse productions are relatively scarce. The studio must have spent a lot of money on this, particularly to get Sean Connery to play an aged Allan Quartermain, leader of the motley band. Before the end of the movie we’ve also enjoyed the company of Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, Mina Harker, Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyll and his alter-ego, Tom Sawyer, Professor Moriarty, and probably a bunch of other adventure yarn stock characters I’ve forgotten already. Some of the personality-specific gags are vaguely entertaining. It just never comes together as a story. See if desperate