The Literature Network - `League' of their own; Victorian superheroes contend with 20th Century villainy.(VARIETY / FREETIME)

`League' of their own; Victorian superheroes contend with 20th Century villainy.(VARIETY / FREETIME)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20030711
Author:Covert, Colin

Byline: Colin Covert; Staff Writer

A wonderfully old-school adventure, "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" takes us to a retro-futuristic world in the last days of the 19th century. The British Empire is in full flower, steam engines and gaslight are cutting-edge technology, and popular fiction overflows with adventurers, rogues and figures of fantasy.

The film imagines a world in which Jules Verne's Captain Nemo, H.G. Wells' Invisible Man, Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll, H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain and others are brought together in uneasy partnership to ...

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