Oh shut up everybody. It was cute.

"There is something about Holmes's elegant, haunting, and whisperingly melancholic distance, his analytical remove from the world, that inspires a desire for glimpses of the baroque corridors of labyrinthine interiors." - Joshua Vasquez

It is a blasphemy for this movie to include the words "Sherlock Holmes" in its title. A sacrilegious spit on Arthur Conan Doyle's memory and work. Just disgusting. However, I can't force myself into rating something about Sherlock with 0 points... Hence, 1.

Maybe it's just nostalgia from repeated childhood viewings talking, but I think this is a good adventure movie. The leads are unappealing. That's almost the only problem. This was one of the first films ever to use CG, and that work is still impressive--I cannot stress strongly enough how amazing all the effects were back then. The fantasy sequences that occur when a character gets poisoned are excellent, and memorably disturbing--even the cupcakes. Fun bad guys in this too.

would have been better without Spielberg's influence. He took a pretty decent story and made it puerile.

So suspend disbelief about the whole Sherlock Holmes tradition and just take it for what it is. Better plot than many Holmsian tales. Quirly casting and solid characterisation from the leads albeit they disappeared without trace. Worth watching and enjoying as one possible way in which Holmes and Watson could have met. Some nice twists show how the fully formed characters could have been developed. Not at all bad for pace and entirely harmless.

Great

Passes the time.

Lousy and offensive Sherlock Holmes. But if you mentally change the title to YOUNG DOCTOR WHO and rethink the movie accordingly, it's mildly fun.

"By the time Young Sherlock Holmes clangs to a close, the assets of the film are buried beneath an avalanche of unnecessary bells and whistles."

I like him old.