I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The only way to make a bad movie out of The Three Musketeers is to cast Charlie Sheen in it as they did in 1993. Note to other reviewers: EVERY filmed version of this Dumas' tale has to be a chop job—unless it becomes a multi-episode cable TV series. Note #2: most classics get spoofed (think how delightfully well Mel Brooks has done with Life of Brian, Frankenstein, Dracula, Robin Hood. Few actors of his day could surpass Don Ameche for versatility (singer, physical actor, comedy actor), and Binnie Barnes rivals any other female actor who's played Lady d'Winter, and she proved a fine foil for the Ritz Brothers. Add John Carradine and Lionel Atwill for villainy and we have a fine cast of pros. As to the Ritz Brothers, they were superb talents: precision dancers, singers and comedians who were among the highest paid revue and nightclub acts in the USA. Like many variety comedians (Beatrice Lillie, Bert Lahr, The Wiere Brothers, Shaw & Lee, Jimmy Savo), it was difficult to adapt narrative material for three surreal madcaps like the Ritzes. The Three Musketeers is enjoyable not only because of Ameche, Barnes, Carradine and Atwill, but for the bright and witty story curve fielded by Al, Harry & Jimmy Ritz. The Three Musketeers does not showcase the Ritzes at their best (see: You Can't Have Everything; Sing, Baby, Sing; and On the Avenue. Pass on The Gorilla; it doesn't merit anyone's consideration. But The Three Musketeers may be their best film in overall quality—after all, it was directed by Allan Dwan (who helmed the Doug Fairbanks version). Frank Cullen founder: ABQ Film Club and American Vaudeville Museum author: Vaudeville Old & New (Routledge 2007).

While this follows the basic storyline we've seen in more than half a dozen films, this musical comedy is part operetta/part farce, some of it more amusing than the other. With their tongues firmly in their cheeks, the Ritz Brothers are substituted for musketeers which Don Ameche (as D'Artagnon) has made the mistake of insulting in print. They are passed out when Ameche arrives, believing that the disguised Ritz Brothers are actually the men he was arranging to meet. This leads to adventures as they struggle to return a broach belonging to Queen Anne (Gloria Stuart) to her before the King discovers it is missing. The villain is of course the scheming Cardinal Richilieu (Miles Mander looking nothing like George Arliss) who is plotting to reveal the Queen's alleged infidelity with an Englishman (Lester Matthews) she has given a passport to in order to leave the country. Ameche falls in love with the Queen's lady in waiting (a dull Pauline Moore) while the Cardinal conspires with the scheming Lady DeWinter (a fun Binnie Barnes) who must undergo humiliation by the Ritz Brothers as part of her acting assignment. The result is a mixed bag that would later be done more seriously by MGM in 1948 and as a light-hearted comedy/adventure in 1974.The love songs seem like relics out of the days of Broadway operetta, which it had been in the 1920's, while the comedy tunes seem like spoofs of Gilbert and Sullivan. The Ritz Brothers are amusing, but their buffoonery is inappropriate in its trying to make us believe that Ameche would not see through their silliness. Recent Oscar Winner Joseph Schildkraut is only seen briefly as the King, but popular screen villains John Carradine and Lionel Atwill get to pop up and do their thing. The first Ritz Brothers gag (involving a drinking contest) is straight out of the Three Stooges, while a novelty musical number (involving the brothers clad in pots and pans being used as musical instruments) is slightly amusing. The feathered hat-wearing Ameche lays the over-acting a little thick here, reminding me of the old line about a similar performance being referred to as "a ham with a feather in it". It is enjoyable as light-hearted fare, but serious lovers of the story are better off sticking with the 1935, 1948 and 1974 versions.

A musical comedy version of the swashbuckling classic starring Don Ameche and the Ritz Bros? It sounds like a Catskill burlesque sketch, but turns out to be a straight, if bare-bones, version of Dumas, with mistaken identity (times 3) swapping Al, Jim & Harry in for Athos, Aramis & Porthos. Vet megger Alan Dwan was an old hand at this type of material (his THE IRON MASK/'29 -- in the restored KINO edition, please -- is one of the great Dumas adaptations) and the production has a giddying pace and a surprisingly sumptuous look to it. But the songs are unmemorable (to put it nicely) and leave an already short film with hardly enough time to fit in a measly Cliff Notes edition of the narrative.

After viewing this film I wound up scratching my head with so many questions of how this thing ever got made in the first place.Firstly three years before there was a straight dramatic version of The Three Musketeers that starred Walter Abel as D'Artagnan by RKO. That film was well received although it didn't transform Abel into a leading man. Why Darryl Zanuck made another version so soon is beyond me.Secondly Rudolph Friml wrote a fine operetta of The Three Musketeers in the 20s. The score here by Walter Bulloch and Samuel Pokrass is singularly unmemorable. Who knows why Friml's music wasn't used, but it should have been.Zanuck had the ideal D'Artagnan on his lot in Tyrone Power. But since Power didn't sing and Don Ameche always got sloppy seconds in roles at Fox, he got the part. Poor Ameche, he tried his best and he even gets into the comic elements of the film, but it's no good.At year 2004 very few people know of the Ritz Brothers. They were good burlesque comedians who Zanuck signed up. Their humor was of The Three Stooges variety, but each stooge had an individual personality. You can't tell one Ritz from the other. In the film they take the place of the real Athos, Porthos, and Aramis and they and Ameche bungle their way into one situation after another.Of the women in the cast I have to say that Binnie Barnes as Milady DeWinter gets into the spirit of the slapstick with the Ritzes.It's a mess this film, but more so when you think that a straight musical with the Friml score could have been done and now probably never will and a version with Ty Power as D'Artagnan would have been a classic.