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3	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The commentary suggests that King Louis may not be entirely fooled by the TreacheryCoverUp at the end but is pretending to be as clueless as usual to toy with Richelieu and avoid a scandal.
4	* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The sole, outlandish premise of the Three Musketeers [[JustForFun/RecycledINSPACE WITH AIRSHIPS!]] (and especially with Creator/PaulWSAnderson helming it) was enough to turn away many people, making the film bomb in the States.
5	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
6	** Whatever else about the film, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXlOHKVFWi0&list=RD1odL9XoN7qQ&index=5 Paul Haslinger's score]] is a thing of beauty.
7	** The song played in the closing credits, "When We Were Young" by Music/TakeThatBand, is a beautiful, nostalgic piece that encapsulates the entire film's spirit.
8	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Milady is either unforgivably over-the-top or pulls off her FemmeFatale DarkActionGirl shtick exceptionally well, depending on who you ask.
9	* CriticalBacklash: Most critics hated it, while audience marks were usually not above meh, but there are still many people who believe the film deserved more love, thanks mainly to his stunning visual style, quirky presentation, and deceptive faithfulness to the novel. Creator/QuentinTarantino of all people rated it among his favorite 2011 movies.
10	* EnsembleDarkHorse: King Louis and Queen Anne are probably the most consistently praised supporting characters in the movie. Louis has some hilarious moments but good HiddenDepths while Creator/JunoTemple does a convincing job of making her character a bold and witty embodiment of GoodIsNotDumb.
11	* GeniusBonus: One for the readers. Creator/LukeEvans (Aramis) bears a resemblance to Creator/OrlandoBloom (the Duke of Buckingham). In the book, though not in the film, when D'Artagnan first sees the Duke, he notes his resemblance to Aramis.
12	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The movie was a flop in the US but quite successful overseas, even managing to be among the year's biggest films in Germany and Japan. The former case possibly came from the presence of popular local actor/director Creator/TilSchweiger in the cast, while the latter happened probably because the film is basically a live action version of how Creator/HayaoMiyazaki would have adapted the novel.
13	* MagnificentBitch: [[ClassyCatBurglar Milady de Winter]] works as a French spy alongside the Three Musketeers, including her lover Athos. She betrays, robs, and drugs them on behalf of the English Duke Buckingham but later covertly sells her loyalties back to French EvilChancellor Cardinal Richelieu, who tasks her with framing his political rival the Queen for adultery. Milady singlehandedly kills multiple guardsmen (timing the one pistol shot she fires with a ringing bell) and navigates a complex security system to do so. She then gets Richelieu to sign a pardon for her to preempt any betrayal on his part. When the Musketeers capture her, she rebukes them for sparing Buckingham but being determined to kill her, but retains enough respect and sympathy for her former companions to give them her pardon and jump off the airship rather than make a tormented Athos kill her. However, whether by coincidence or design, she survives the fall and is picked up by Buckingham, rejoining his side as he prepares for another confrontation. Milady stands out as far more formidable than her novel counterpart, while at the same time retaining more humanity.
14	* {{Misblamed}}: Many reviews apparently decided that because it was made by Creator/PaulWSAnderson and there are airships on it, any trace of the original Dumas story would be gone, so most of them acted as if the story bore no resemblance to the novel at all. While of course several things were changed, including turning Milady into an ActionGirl and adding ClockPunk tones, the overall plot is pretty much exactly what Dumas wrote, to the point it almost goes scene by scene in the parts that don't interfere with the new elements. All in all, it probably takes fewer liberties than ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993'', the most famous modern adaptation of the novel. (In fact, it may be the dissimilarity to the 1993 version that caused people to think Anderson's film wasn't faithful, because it wasn't faithful to the ''significantly altered'' version [[PopCulturalOsmosis they were more familiar with.]])
15	* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paut4zNx-3c The Musketeers fighting]] forty soldiers is easily the high point of the movie. The choreography is terrific (Porthos using anything at hand, Athos slamming through ten guys without breaking stride, D'Artagnan using grappling moves) and the fantastic musical score just makes it all the better.
16	* NarmCharm: Airships, kung fu choreography and ClockPunk weapons are not what one would expect to find in an adaptation of Dumas's novel, but the film plays them so unapologetically that it's difficult not to like it when one understands [[RuleOfCool what kind of ride this is]]. It helps that most of the cast TookTheBadFilmSeriously and gave neat performances even at the silliest moments, which helps the film do quite well what it aims to do.
17	* OlderThanTheyThink: This was actually far from being the first film adaptation of ''The Three Musketeers'' to showcase martial arts and outrageous gadgets. For instance, the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993 1993 version]] already featured unusual weapons, a lot of ImprovFu and a Japanese ninja with a multi-use katana, while the [[Film/TheMusketeer 2001 homologue]] was entirely choreographed in the style of Creator/JackieChan and included a GunNut character with a hidden cannon.
18	* QuestionableCasting: Creator/OrlandoBloom is in this, but he's ''not'' playing D'Artagnan as many think it would be natural for him. However, being 34 at the time of making this film, he would have likely appeared too old for a character who was 18 in the original novel (Creator/LoganLerman, who plays D'Artagnan, was 19 and looking it), though even then, d'Artagnan has never been a stranger to DawsonCasting and at 34, Bloom was the perfect age to play George Villiers, who died at 35.
19	* RetroactiveRecognition:
20	** Future ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' star Creator/HelenGeorge makes an early appearance as a blonde partygoer.
21	** Creator/JamesCorden appears as Planchet years before he got more famous worldwide as the host of the US series ''Series/TheLateLateShow''.
22	* TaintedByThePreview: As if being directed by Creator/PaulWSAnderson wasn't enough, people became skeptical towards the film when the airships showed up in the previews.
23	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Although the film as it is (that is, sheer RuleOfCool) has its own charm, it can be also argued that, with its decent cast and high production values, it would have made for a excellent straightforward adaptation without the airships and stuff, especially considering that the last Musketeer movie to hit theaters while including the stolen jewels subplot was the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973 Richard Lester version from 1973-74]].
24	* UncertainAudience: The film can be difficult to rate objectively as an adaptation, because it clearly tries to be as faithful to the novel as possible in some elements and just as crazy and embellished in others. This ultimately played against the movie, as gimmicks like the airships and cool weapons repelled purist fans of the novel and period film enthusiasts, while conventional action flick fans were likely uninterested due to the film being an adaptation of a swashbuckling novel (which wouldn't probably cater to a wide audience either). The fact that an infamous pop-corn director like Creator/PaulWSAnderson was in charge of the film didn't help either.

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