The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.

A film with a genuinely promising concept — uniting Victorian literary heroes against a supervillain — that critics almost universally felt squandered its potential through muddled plotting and thin characterization. The near-universal panning at release has not been rehabilitated over time; audiences were warmer than critics but still lukewarm.