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.. The phrase refers to the blacksmith's forge, where if the smith had too many irons heating in the fire at the same time, he couldn't do his job properly, as he was unable to use them all before some had cooled off.
When he royally fancies the lady love (Judith Godrèche) of the son (Peter Sarsgaard) of former musketeer Athos (John Malkovich) and orders the young man shipped off to battle, it's time for the aging Three Musketeers--Athos, Aramis (Jeremy Irons), and Porthos (Gérard Depardieu)--to haul their uniforms out of mothballs and prove once again that they're more than the stuff of chocolate bars.
(The over-fifties team for which I play is the Hot Irons: we strike while the iron's hot and also play golf.)
This adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 1846 swashbuckler "transforms its august stars [Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, Gabriel Byrne, Gérard Depardieu, and John Malkovich] into something akin to a manic dinner-theater troupe" ( Slate 's David Edelstein).
A minority praises Jeremy Irons' portrayal of Humbert Humbert--the middle-age professor obsessed with his adolescent stepdaughter--as sufficiently smarmy, and call the film "rich beyond what anyone could have expected" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). (Read Louis Menand's review in Slate .)