[SFRA-L] The Da Vinci Code

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The reviewer in the Orlando Sentinel only gave it one star, and  closed his 
review by saying that it was "le pits".
 
    Ed Wysocki
 
 
In a message dated 10/23/2011 10:43:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
pierceqfpl at ewwpi.com writes:

No, this  isn't about the Dan Brown novel or the movie based on it; it's 
about the  latest version of THE THREE MUSKETEERS, which Marcia and I saw  
yesterday.

Those 17th Century airships, it turns out, were built from  supposed 
designs by Leonardo, taken by the Musketeers from a secret vault in  Venice and 
then purloined from them by MiLady, who takes them to Lord  Buckingham. As 
part of the only story line related to the novel, involving the  queen's 
jewels, they later manage to steal Buckingham's airship (which has  previously 
made a spectacular visit to the royal palace in Paris), but  Cardinal Richlieu 
has built a bigger one and those are the airships that  battle it out in the 
preview trailer. It also turns out that Da Vinci must  have known about 
helium and how to prepare it, because shots ARE fired at the  gas bags -- but 
they don't go up like the Hindenburg's. There is other  silliness, of course 
-- with only sails instead of propellors, these aiurshps  can rise and 
descend with amazing speed, and easily stay on course.

The  movie got a terrible review in The New York Times, and it IS a hoot.  
But it obviiously has its tongue in its cheek, and isn't meant to be taken 
any  more seriously than the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN series. In one scene,  
D'Artagnan is issued a ticket for not cleaning up after his horse; in 
another,  the previous year's fashions are called "retro." There's an in-joke 
about the  game being afoot (By coincidence, one of the previews we saw 
yesterday was for  December's Sherlock Holmes movie.). The thing is, as the Times 
noted,  that PIRATES has Johnny Depp and his crew going for it, whereas none 
of the  players in THE THREE MUSKETEERS are impressive. There's a teaser for 
a second  MUSKETEERS Da Vinci punk movie, with Buckingham leading an entiire 
armada of  airships and ordinary ships against France, but I'm not holding 
my  breath.

--J.J.P.



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