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Tockinit not horrible nor great

Ploydsge just watch it!

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Prismark10 A combination of writer Chris Columbus, director Barry Levinson and Executive Producer Steven Spielberg gives us Young Sherlock Holmes. A re-imagining of when Holmes and Watson met at boarding school.Columbus who went on to direct the first Harry Potter film very much had in his mind an almost prototype Harry Potter feel years before JK Rowling wrote the books!In dastardly Victorian London a young Watson arrives at boarding school and meets a brilliant student named Sherlock Holmes. However there are strange deaths going on near the school with people having frightening hallucinations before dying. Holmes sets about to investigate and uncovers a bizarre Egyptian cult and wrongdoings leading to the school itself.The film was known for some state of the art digital effects such as the stained glass knight. The plot does feel like an American take on a Sherlock Holmes story complete with a young but still bumbling and slightly chubby Watson. Its a light plot mixed with story lines from previous Spielberg films such as Indiana Jones The filmmakers want to have reverence to Conan Doyle but as the BBC series of the modern Sherlock has shown, it would had been possible to have a radical take of Young Sherlock Holmes if they had pushed the envelope a bit further and had gone for a slightly different and zippy characterisation of the two main characters.

SanteeFats This film was very entertaining when I watched it. It shows an imagined meeting of Holmes and Watson, as teens, at a boarding school. Holmes also meets his love at the school, no not another boy, the daughter of a retired professor who lives upstairs. Sophie Ward plays this love interest but is killed in the end. Someone looking for a reason Holmes never married?? The only sticking points I had was with the Egyptian cult that the sole survivor of an Egyptian village destroyed from a bad dig sets up in England. Usually villagers had little if any book learning, could neither read or write. How could a village peasant get the money, education, and followers to set up the cult? Then, how come every cultist appears to be a white, Englishman, no Egyptian's wanted in? Outside of that though I thought this was a very well written and acted movie. Fun to watch

bkoganbing The youngest screen version of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson is in this winning film directed by Barry Levinson for Paramount back in 1985. Watching Nicholas Rowe as a teenage Holmes develop both detective's wits and style I don't think he would have grown up to be Basil Rathbone or Arthur Wontner. But I could sure see a young Jeremy Brett in his interpretation of the role.Long before they lived at 221B Baker Street and long before Dr. Watson did his army service in the Afghan War, Holmes and Watson met at your typical English public school, the kind of place that Tom Brown and Flashman went to back in the day.Some strange things are happening as a series of unexplained deaths of some fairly prominent people. No one is calling them homicides, but young Rowe is suspicious. And he becomes truly involved when his mentor at the school Nigel Stock is killed.It all traces back sadly to an ancient Egyptian cult and a drug that they induce by blowgun which causes hallucinations. And the source of it is very close to home. We also learn why Sherlock Holmes became a confirmed bachelor. In his youth he had the typical teenage hormones and they went in the direction of Sarah Ward, niece of the man who was his mentor. More I won't say.Young Sherlock Holmes received an Oscar nomination for Visual Effects and it's a delightful movie for the family and offers yet another interpretation of the character of the most famous sleuth of all.

Gavin Cresswell (gavin-thelordofthefu-48-460297) I've seen most mystery films that included Sherlock Holmes (the Robert Downey Jr. version and the Disney version) and I think that this is the best Sherlock Holmes film to date. It stays true to the spirit and imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and I was surprised that this was being produced by the same guys who would later Home Alone (Chris Columbus) and Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg) and directed by Barry Levinson (Diner and would later direct Disclosure).I should give those guys an award for capturing the tone and characters of Sir Arthur's work because this movie has everything that makes it worth watching. The sets/costume designs are well-done and the scenery is beautiful to look at. The special effects are particularly good and this was the first film to feature Industrial Light and Magic's CGI effects before some of them were used for Pixar's Toy Story.The strongest aspects goes to the riveting action sequences, the rousing music score from Bruce Broughton, and the top notch cast. Nicholas Rowe did a great job as the teenage Sherlock Holmes and the characterization/friendship with the teenage Watson played by Alan Cox was fun and creative. Some of the other actors including Freddie Jones and the beautiful Sophie Ward have done well with the other characters in this movie, but I think that the evil Professor Rathe (who later became Professor Moriarty after the ending credits of the film) played by Anthony Higgins steals the show and is the most diabolical villain in the history of cinema.The reason why I'm giving this a 9/10 is not because of the story (I thought it was very engaging), but since this had a PG-13 rating, it does have some intense and violent moments in some of the scenes and would frighten younger kids before the adults will let them see it.Despite that, this is an enjoyable and engaging Sherlock Holmes film to date and is Barry Levinson's incredible achievement and thanks to the help of Steven Spielberg, Chris Columbus, and Henry Winkler.