![]() ![]() What I'm getting at here, is that good satire operates within the rules and world of the IP or topic they are deconstructing. He then flirts with a mute woman and Watson hits on a doctor while they perform an erotic autopsy. Sure enough, he vomits uncontrollably for the next five minutes and can't even get past the lobby. They are going to make Sherlock Holmes into a stock Will Farrell character for the sake of an overlong vomit joke. It was at this moment the horror of this joke dawned on me. Watson asks the World's Greatest Detective if he will be queasy again at the sight of dead bodies. In one scene, Holmes and Watson visit the morgue. I think there is one teachable moment in this dumpster fire. HEY GUYS! DID YOU KNOW THEY DID HARD DRUGS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND DIDN'T KNOW HOW DANGEROUS THEY WERE?! WIKIPEDIA SAID IT WAS IN THE BOOKS! PEOPLE IN OLDEN TIMES WERE SOOOOOO STUPID, UNLIKE NOW!!! Aside from yelling all of their lines, overuse of the gag about Sherlock Holmes being able to calculate (or rather failing to calculate) the mathematics of a fight, jokes about how Watson REALLY wants to bang old Queen Victoria, there are numerous moments in which we are supposed to laugh at cocaine and heroin use. There are a couple of jokes that work and Ferrell's English accent is not as terrible as one would assume.īut the rest is PAINFULLY unfunny. And yeah that dynamic is there, buried beneath all the shit. Reilly, which included cult favorites such as Talladega Nights and Step Brothers. The other idea that led to this disaster was the history between Will Ferrell and John C. And if you wanted a more serious and cerebral modern take on the classic character, you had the BBC series to fill your time. You were in on the joke AND you still had an interesting story and great chemistry between the main leads. Aside from the fact this movie is almost a decade too late on that front, it ignores the fact that those movies already WERE action comedies that had no problem making fun of their own premise and ridiculous steampunk tone. ![]() The rough idea (I guess) was that someone REALLY wanted to satirize the Guy Ritchie directed Sherlock Holmes films with Robert Downey Jr. ![]() Those things being two aging comedians screaming at each other like autistic children until someone yelled cut. No, this is a series of things that happen. ![]() But it REALLY sticks in the craw for me in such a hateful manner. It's not even the worst thing Will Ferrell or John C. I have seen so many terrible B-movies and action flicks that amounted to fuck all, that this low-brow and forgettable piece of trash is quickly disqualified for that ignominious award. Rating: PG-13 (Drug References|Crude Sexual Material|Language|Some Violence)įor a moment I was trying to decide if Holmes and Watson is the worst movie I have ever seen. When new twists and clues begin to emerge, the world's greatest sleuth and his trusted assistant must now use their legendary wits and ingenious methods to catch the killer before the queen becomes the next victim. It seems like an open-and-shut case as all signs point to Professor James Moriarty, the criminal mastermind and longtime nemesis of the crime-solving duo. John Watson join forces to investigate a mysterious murder at Buckingham Palace. ![]()
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