| Overall: | B |
|---|---|
| Violence: | C+ |
| Sexual Content: | A- |
| Language: | B- |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | C+ |
| Run Time: | 111 |
| Theater Release: | |
| Video Release: | 13 Mar 2012 |
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After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.
You can easily obtain the original novel of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas for no cost by visiting Project Gutenberg at this link (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1257) with your computer or e-reader device. While this particular movie contains some of the book’s plot points, the outcome is significantly different.
It’s true that King Louis XIII was young—he succeeded to the throne of France at the age of nine—however he likely had a few more things to worry about than the color of his clothes. Get more info on this young monarch at the Britannica Online Encyclopedia.
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Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for The Parent's Television Council in Los Angeles. He and his wife Donna have four children.
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