French adventure story. This is a feminist reworking of The Three Musketeers, in which all of the Musketeers are women pretending to be men.
There’s a lot to say about this film.
(1) Start with the fact that it is rated 1.2 out of 5 in the Google review system (3% likes, 97% dislikes), and 1.4 out of 10 at IMDb. If that score holds, it will be the fourth lowest IMDb score in history:
- Daniel the Wizard 1.2
- Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas 1.3
- Foodfight 1.3
- Toutes Pour Une 1.4
(2) It was a financial flop of immense proportions in France. “During its theatrical release week, the film achieved a record low attendance with just 1271 admissions for 564 screenings.” By the time it disappeared, the total number of tickets sold amounted to about 14,000.
(3) It was financed in large part by public funds. The budget was about ten million euros.
Conservatives were outraged that their tax euros were used to finance a terrible film that desecrated a classic French novel and pushed a “woke, feminist agenda” that replaced the famous musketeers with a bunch of dark-complected women who humiliated men at every turn. (Ouizani’s and Amamra’s families are from North Africa; Lukumuena’s heritage is Congolese. Daphne Patakia is fair-skinned, but is from a Greek family and was born and raised in Belgium, making her insufficiently French to please the nativists.) The film became the bête noire of the French Right, and they rushed to the internet to bash it and to award the lowest possible scores in every forum they could find.
Is it a bad enough film to rate lower than Manos or The Hottie & the Nottie or Baby Geniuses 2? Well, the indoor photography is incompetent – you can barely see what’s happening. And there are many problems with the script. Yes, it’s crap, and it should have a low rating, but not that low. That score is a result of its politics, not its incompetence. It’s not the fourth-worst film in history. Hell, if they had found a role for Rob Schneider, it would be one of his better films.
Daphne Patakia and Deborah Lukumuena
Daphne Patakia
Deborah Lukumuena
Georgina Amoros
Oulaya Amamra
Sabrina Ouazani.
Sabrina Ouazani was supposedly topless in the jail scene, but you can see in the clip that she was obviously wearing large nipple patches. I don’t know why she chose that route. She has done topless scenes in the past.
Georgina Amoros was topless in several episodes of In Love All Over Again
Oulaya Amamra did some weird nude scenes in Animale. Or not. Who can tell with that film?
Daphne Patakia has been naked in several films. Here is the rest of her nudography.
I don’t think I’ve seen Deborah Lukumuena in anything before, and I won’t be heartbroken if I never see her naked again.
Wait, those women are too dark complected? Jesus
The preferred nomenclature around here these days is “deportable”.
Correct, Jesus would also have been too dark complected.
They would have called him Hey-soos as they tased him and sent him off to South Sudan.
*Never* expect {for}acists to be anything less than {f,r}acist – save yourself the effort. They actively choose to be shitty humans – believe them.