#Kids review sherlock holmes 2009 movie#
Meanwhile, the set of the movie is pretty impressive, with lots of steampunk vibes, nice scenery, and a few impressive scenes of massive destruction and mayhem here and there. This is why casting Robert Downey Jr in the role of Holmes is a good decision: he can pull off Holmes’s more implausible connecting of point A to point C to arrive at point H while an actor with a more serious kind of gravity will fail at it. The story is actually pretty stupid with lots of holes, but it’s fun to see Holmes solve befuddling scenarios with aplomb and gusto in a most entertaining kind of surreal manner. The movie is also well-paced enough to keep me entertained. The dynamic between Holmes and Dr Watson is made for such stories. Those naughty stories on Livejournal are definitely coming. No, I don’t think those impressionable young ladies are fooled by the presence of the two lovely leading ladies in this movie.
When Dr Watson points out that he’d be spending time away from London with his fiancée rather than Holmes, Holmes’s face falls beautifully as he sputters in indignant dismay. Holmes has several delicious and innuendo-laden lines to the stoic Dr Watson here, and there is an amazingly delivered monologue by Holmes where he attempts to get Dr Watson to leave Mary and spend time with him in some nice farm belonging to Holmes’s brother.
She and Kelly Reilly are stuck with awful lines and their roles in this movie seem to be solely to distract impressionable young ladies from the amount of homoerotic vibes between the two male characters and reduce the amount of slash fanfiction from showing up on these young ladies’ blogs. Irene Adler’s role in this movie is actually minimal, and poor Ms McAdams barely has enough screen time to allow her character to work. The two lead actresses are unfortunately stuck in thankless roles. Sherlock Holmes is an enjoyable action movie, due to mostly because the entertaining chemistry between the two lead actors. Oh well, now that he’s captured and eventually hanged, there is nothing else to worry about, right? Oops, Lord Blackwood somehow comes back to life and resumes his plot, which turns out to be of larger scale than one would expect, while a woman from Holmes’s past, Irene Adler, shows up and complicates matters. Lord Blackwood seems to be a leader of some kind of cult committing ritual murders to gain some kind of power. Meanwhile, the two men manage to identify and apprehend Lord Blackwood in a mystery involving several dead young women in London. This drives the wildly jealous Holmes to alternate between bouts of bleak and manic despair, not leaving his room for days and shooting at the wall, and bouts of desperate energized attempts to sabotage Watson’s relationship with Mary. In this movie, Watson is engaged to marry Mary Morstan. Dr James Watson is an ex-military doctor who craves a normal life, but he’s drawn to Holmes’s intriguing cases more than he’d like to expect.
Sherlock Holmes in this movie is a manic, eccentric, and very self-absorbed fellow who is more dependent on his friend Watson than he’d like to admit. But put them together and I get a combination that works pretty well in this movie. Robert Downey Jr plays Sherlock Holmes with his trademark somewhat manic but always amusing style, while Jude Law plays the same kind of character that he often plays – the good-looking but somewhat remote fellow. If you have watched any movie featuring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law, you will know what to expect here.
#Kids review sherlock holmes 2009 update#
I hope you aren’t expecting the characters and story in Sherlock Holmes to be similar to any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories featuring those characters, because this is an update for the twenty-first century, which means that both Sherlock Holmes and his heterosexual life partner Dr John Watson know kung-fu and go medieval on their opponents’ rear ends. Main cast: Robert Downey Jr (Sherlock Holmes), Jude Law (Dr John Watson), Mark Strong (Lord Blackwood), Rachel McAdams (Irene Adler), Kelly Reilly (Mary Morstan), Eddie Marsan (Inspector Lestrade), Hans Matheson (Lord Coward), Geraldine James (Mrs Hudson), James Fox (Sir Thomas), and William Hope (Ambassador Standish)
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