The Four Musketeers

This movie is excellent. The Four Musketeers, along with the first movie, are the only movie versions that are remotely accurate to Alexandre Dumas's masterpiece novel, The Three Musketeers.The action and sword fighting in this film are great. They only... Full review

Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Geraldine Chaplin, Faye Dunaway, Charlton Heston, boy oh boy what a shining list of major stars of the 70's. The movie attracts my attention first because of the most-read French story, second the cast... Full review

THE FOUR MUSKETEERS, the second half of Richard Lester's brilliant adaptation of Dumas' THE THREE MUSKETEERS, carries on the manic adventures of D'Artagnan (Michael York), and his comrades (Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, and Frank Finley), and offers deliriously comic moments... Full review

Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are back; or more precisely, are still here; for the second half of the Dumas novel. As I'm sure most fans know, this was meant to be part of the complete Three Musketeers, before the... Full review

FINALLY...a DVD release called 'The Complete Musketeers' that does justice to a proper transfer, in widescreen and looking better than when I saw it in the theater.Watching 'The Three Musketeers' without seeing the 'The Four...' is like reading the Alexander... Full review

The previous posts were very detailed and accurate, so I'm only going to add a few points.First, although this movie was filmed along with the first, it's almost as though the scenes in this one were edited from the first... Full review

I was forced to wait 6 months between watching "The Three Musketeers" and getting an opportunity to watch this "sequel" (shot at the same time) and it was agony, though I was somewhat afraid that the second one would not... Full review

This "sequel" (actually filmed along with "The Three Musketeers" but released separately later--much to the consternation of its cast who had intended to do one film and were paid for one, but who later sued for compensation! That would make... Full review

Don't watch this movie alone. That is, watch Richard Lester's "The Three Musketeers" with it. The two are actually the same film, shot simultaneously (in fact, the cast thought they were making one long movie, to the extent that they... Full review

This film is part two of the movie "Three and Four Musketeers".This film is somewhat more serious in tone as is warranted by the events described in the book. Not quite as fun as the first movie but true to... Full review

I liked the first film better than the second, but in any event, half of this pair is enough. Still, the movie does have a nice, slick surface as simple linear diversion, and it should play well on television, where the commercials will conceal its lack of continuity by providing more of their own. ... Full Review

But after an opening which promises some kind of riotous comic strip of Victorian England, and a particularly good scene involving a boxing-match, the plot begins to parody itself too overtly and too loosely The film might perhaps get by on its superb visuals and the occasional good gag, but the casting sinks it: whatever Lester's intentions, McDowell and Bolkan are no match for Michael York and Faye Dunaway at this kind of thing. ... Full Review

De Winter is determined to get revenge against the Musketeers, and when she learns that D'Artagnan is infatuated with the lovely Constance ( Raquel Welch ), she first tries to foil their romance by seducing D'Artagnan herself, and then by persuading Rochefort ( Christopher Lee ) to kidnap Constance. ... Full Review

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Though previously released by Fox Lorber, Anchor Bay's new anamorphic transfers of The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers bring Richard Lester's now-classic action-comedy diptych in a beautifully designed foldout case, with pretty art direction incorporating images of the film's... ... Full Article

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When Richard Lester was filming The Three Musketeers , he discovered the result was too long for a single film. So he decided to split it up into two films (this film, The Four Musketeers , would be the second... ... Full Article