These flaws make his near-fatal mistakes almost inevitable. While the traditional Holmes character is a man capable of rigorous logic and careful deductions, Ferrell’s Sherlock is vain, obsessed with his public image, and prone to wild deductions without any basis in fact. Will Ferrell’s Holmes is arrogant – as he is in the books – but with little to be arrogant about.
It is always a challenge to recreate an iconic character on the big screen but Holmes & Watson fails miserably. The sole saving grace of this script is that it is brief – the film is only 89 minutes long, but it feels much, much longer. There was only a smattering of laughter in the screening I attended. The script is also marked by numerous attempts at comedy that repeatedly fall flat. Viewers will almost certainly figure out whodunnit faster than does Holmes. Thus begins a quest marked more by luck than logic in fact, Holmes is so witless one begins to wonder if he is actually a boon to law enforcement or an impediment to it. At a function at Buckingham Palace, Holmes cuts into a cake only to find a dead body and a warning that Queen Victoria (Pam Ferris) will be dead in four days unless he can apprehend the killer. Reilly), dedicated to solving the most difficult criminal cases.
This film tells the story of Sherlock Holmes (Will Ferrell) and his trusty friend (John C.
Why? Follow the clues and deduce the reasons.įirst clue: the script.
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One would assume that a movie featuring Holmes would be as fascinating as the written exploits. Sherlock Holmes, fictional super sleuth created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1891, was the detective in 60 best-selling mysteries.
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