I Watch Films: Holmes and Watson
Sigh. Okay there are some funny jokes in this film, but the better ones make a nonsense of it being Sherlock Holmes, so the whole exercise becomes pointless. There’s an assumption that we mostly don’t know or care about the rich century long history of Holmes stories, and our most recent acquaintance is with Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes A Game Of Shadows. Both of which have funnier scenes in than this making it doubly pointless*.
There’s an attempt as doing a Mel Brooks style mix-and-match of anachronism, loving pastiche, parody, broad humour, social commentary, surrealism, witty banter, all rolled into one. But Brooks was on the ragged edge when he made them; we have Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles, and even Starballs, but there’s also Robin Hood: Men In Tights and Dracula: Dead and Loving It. And this is on the Dracula: Dead and Loving It side.
Watch This: Because despite my complaints, there’s a few laughs and maybe you’re a Holmsian completist?
Don’t Watch This: If you want good detective stuff, or a consistently funny film.
* Also Elementary and Sherlock have funnier scenes too, and better Holmes stuff
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