The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
An ambitious take on Alan Moore's Victorian fantasy which brings literary heroes and villains from the period together to save the world from a megalomaniac and his small army.
We have Sean Connery as Allan Quatermain, Stuart Townsend as Dorian Gray, Peta Wilson as Mina Harker, Jason Flemying as Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde, Nasseeriddin Shah as Captain Nemo, Tony Curran as the Invisible Man and Shane West as the American agent Tom Sawyer. Anyone familiar with literature of the period should be able to work out who Richard Roxburgh's main villain 'M' is.
Although one or two of the special effects are a bit ropey the whole thing is a fantastic concept mixing Victoriana with Steam Punk and for me it really works. It's fast paced, littered with clever and witty dialogue and on the whole is quite a spectacle, especially Nemo's huge submarine Nautilus in Venice.
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