And I imagined you courageous and stout of heart. Sherlock Holmes: Weasels *are* practical. John Watson: I can’t afford to jeopardise my medical career! In the later scenes of the film, he is seen shot more frequently in a slight distance or seated, and actors around him were standing on risers.
#KIDS REVIEW SHERLOCK HOLMES 2009 MOVIE#
The movie has a lot of fun trying to incorporate the elements of the Holmes mythos into “this is how it could have begun” vignettes, such as how Holmes got his deerstalker cap or why Watson decided to grow up to be a doctor. They clash with a mean-spirited bully, Holmes makes eyes with the only girl on campus, and they are gradually drawn into solving a stumper that involves people hallucinating and killing themselves for no apparent reason. The two of them become fast friends at school, where the usual shenanigans are all the rage. Watson, as always, is the narrator in this tale – although seeing a young kid being narrated by a hoary old voice is odd – and he recalls how he first met Holmes when he moved from the country to the city. Although it throws a disclaimer at the start of the movie that their story isn’t one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales, the filmmakers certainly set out to tell the origin story of the most famous detective in the world and his pudgy sidekick. YSH is almost more notorious for the creative power behind it – executive produced by Steven Spielberg, written by Chris Columbus, directed by Barry Levinson – than for the end result, which is a PG-13 kids movie that can’t quite make up its mind if it wants to be young and whimsical, or grownup and dark.
But it was interesting to me to watch Young Sherlock Holmes and try to shake the feeling of retroactive déjà vu. Rowling wasn’t really tapping into anything new with the boarding school locale – it’s more or less a standard setting for a lot of British fiction. There’s even a character in there named “Dudley.” There’s an antagonistic student whose shade of hair is only one bleach job away from Draco Malfoy, nice professors, batty professors, and secrets that can only be solved by prepubescent teens. You have a trio of a leader, a sidekick and a girl (Sherlock, Watson and Elizabeth) who go to a castle-like boarding school in London, where all sorts of mysterious events unfold. Justin’s review: You know what Young Sherlock Holmes basically is? It’s Harry Potter, only with less magic (but not completely void of it) and far more deductive skills. Justin’s rating: Elementary… school, my dear Watson! Summary Capsule: Sherlock gets his very first case, and he’s not old enough to smoke or shoot up heroin! What would Arthur Conan Doyle think? Tagline: Before a lifetime of adventure, they had the adventure of a lifetime. The Scoop: 1985 PG-13, directed by Barry Levinson and starring Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox and Sophie Ward
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