The Three Musketeers (1993)
Director:
Stephen Herek
Tagline:
« They’re Scoundrels, Playboys, Outlaws . . . The Greatest Heroes Who Ever Lived. »
Actors:
Aramis
Athos
D’Artagnan
Porthos
Cardinal Richelieu
Rating:
(64’402 votes)
(64’402 votes)
Quotes:
[the three musketeers and D'Artagnan are escaping from the Cardinal's men in his own coach]
« Porthos: Champagne?
»
« Athos: We're in the middle of a chase, Porthos.
»
« Porthos: You're right – something red.
»
« Porthos: Rochefort. Isn't that a smelly kind of cheese?
»
[During a chase, in the Cardinal's own coach]
« Porthos: For a chase, the Cardinal recommends his excellent '24 Cabernet.
»
« Porthos: [to D'Artagnan] You can't have any, you're too young.
»
« Athos: Take the reins, boy.
»
Runtime:105 minutes
Plots:
France, 1625. Young d’Artagnan heads to Paris to join the Musketeers, but the evil cardinal has disbanded them. d’Artagnan meets Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, three rogue musketeers, and joins them on their quest to save the king and country.
The three best of the disbanded Musketeers – Athos (Kiefer Sutherland), Porthos (Oliver Platt), and Aramis (Charlie Sheen) – join a young hotheaded would-be-Musketeer, D’Artagnan (Chris O’Donnell), to stop Cardinal Richelieu’s (Tim Curry’s) evil plot: to form an alliance with enemy England by way of the mysterious Countess D’Winter (Rebecca De Mornay). Rochefort (Michael Wincott), the Cardinal’s right-hand man, announces the official disbanding of the King’s Musketeers. Three, however, refuse to throw down their swords – Athos, the fighter and drinker, Porthos, the pirate and lover, and Aramis, the priest and poet. Arriving in Paris to join the Musketeers, D’Artagnan uncovers the Cardinal’s plans, and the four set out on a mission to protect King Louis (Hugh O’Conor) and France.
A Disney-ized retelling of Dumas’ classic swashbuckling story of three swordsmen of the disbanded French King’s guard, plus one young man who dreams to become one of them, who seek to save King Louis (Hugh O’Conor) from the scheming Cardinal Richelieu (Tim Curry). Jokes and stunts are the expected fare in this light-hearted and jaunty adventure.
