Evidently it was wise of me not to have read the graphic novel "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" before seeing the film version, because those who I have spoken to who did just that hated the movie. And I enjoyed it. I'm a sucker for anachronistic science and weaponry --- when it comes to futuristic-looking weapons in settings before the 1900s, at least. The movie gives you plenty of that.

Sure, it's a popcorn movie, but it's a fun one that, at the very least, should hopefully expose younger viewers to Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the like. Captain Nemo as a student of mystical Eastern philosophy and an expert martial artist? I must have missed that when I read "Mysterious Island" and "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea" as a child --- or I've just forgotten it. But it works here. Now Dorian Gray as a fop, I remember. A coxcomb, dandy, or dude (by the Webster's definition of a man fastidious in manner and dress), even!