Moschettieri del re: la penultima missione (2018)

I stumbled across the Italian comedy film "Moschettieri del re" by accident (in its Russian dub, under the YouTube title "4 Musketeers are miserable leading a boring peaceful life") and actually enjoyed it a good deal; as a piece of cinema I think this is more successful than the Russian "Return of the Musketeers", and in a not dissimilar vein, being set at about the same period of history and painted with an equally broad brush in terms of fantastic improbability. The fact that as a native English-speaker I was watching it in Russian obviously means that I was missing out on any finer points in the script and wasn't in a position to judge the quality or delivery of the original Italian dialogue in any case, but I thought it worked.
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This film doesn't really have a plot -- beyond the opening gambit of "The Musketeers reunite thirty years later" -- but there is a reason for that. Meanwhile it's a series of episodic adventures towards an unknown end, in the spirit of an ongoing serial or soap opera. It has a decent Athos, which is always a selling-point so far as I am concerned, even if he does have a face like Toby Jones :-p The characters are well-defined and remain consistent to the updated versions of themselves that have been established, and I particularly liked the direction in which the older Aramis was developed here. I didn't expect to enjoy this as much as I did, and even if it wasn't 'real' Russian it was still good practice!

( And I was able to understand large chunks of it on first hearing )