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League of Extraodinary Gentlemen



League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - in which a beloved comic is scrubbed of all likeability, and the only remaining portions of the framework are name recognition and a Victorian time period in which to set a story. Mina Murray is not exactly a survivor of Dracula,she's a stupid vampire now (wow, now she's strong enough to add value to a team of men!) and Sean Connery does very little acting to convince me that he is Alan Quartermain. Captain Nemo has a stupid looking submarine ship, and the invisible Man is not a rapist. His makeup is good. Decent, anyways.  A plot attacks them, and they are assembled like the period clothes wearing Avengers, they even have a Hulk, who is Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekell. Hyde is easily the best part of the movie, I think he contributes to the plot by being a time bomb that goes off and pads things out. Oh, wait, Dorian Grey is there and he's pretending to not be evil, so he hires the LxG, I guess, but then he's evil, so his own plot will be his undoing. They have to go somewhere, and get something, it was too boring to pay attention to. Why would you set your climax in Venice at night? That car is dumb. Never again. Why does Sam own this?

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