Young Sherlock Holmes

A fun '80s-tastic ride. It borrows heavily from "Temple of Doom" and other Spielberg movies of the era, but given how ludicrous more recent Sherlock Holmes adaptations have become, this is forgivable. And that stained glass soldier!

Young Sherlock Holmes has the ingenuity of Young Einstein, the adventurous nature of Young Indiana Jones and the smarminess of Young Sheldon.

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.

Starts out great but eventually degrades into "Indiana Holmes and the Temple of the Laughably Dated Stereotypes". It also gets increasingly boring and nonsensical, right up to the sleep-inducing final fight.

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.

"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

Oh shut up everybody. It was cute.

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.

It's fine, the hallucinations are fun but the rest feels a little flat, the candles in the dining hall are firmly held down to the tables by gravity for example. The Young Indiana Holmes parts are also decent, but I was expecting something bigger at the end involving brilliant deductive logic.

Yung Shlock

One of the lesser known Amblin films. I appreciated how it's targeting teens who have outgrown family films, but too young for R-rated films. It might not be a faithful portayal of Sherlock Holmes, but it kept me entertained with its wintery look and in many ways felt like a precursor for Harry Potter films (involving this films writer Columbus). Other parts owed a lot to producer Spielberg's Temple of Doom. It doesn't quite fulfill on its promise, but I could have watched another one of these.

68.2.

A period-piece -- not the obvious one set in Victorian England, but for 1980s action-adventure movies marketed for kids. It's based on a pretty kooky story line of a secret cult ensconced in downtown London. The CGI is pretty wild (I even had nightmares about the Attack of the Pastries), but it always felt like the film was tripping over itself to explain away something from the canon (hat, jacket, girlfriend, pipe).

65.500

It's old, and there for I can live with the horrible special effects. The script/lines is very much true to Sherlock Holmes books, but it seems a bit like it's tried too hard to put in too many of classic sherlock holmes stuff. Like the pipe! But due to I'm still waiting for the series 3 of the BBC Sherlock, this is a alright use of sherlock related time, but not more than that.

This hasn't aged well whatsoever.

Even for a children's movie the theory of 'suspension of disbelief' is taken to a whole new level here. Columbus takes advantage of kid's imaginations to move the the plot as he likes. It's a pity because the basic plot is pretty good, as is the acting, sets, photography and effects. The xenophobic portrayal of the Egyptians is deeply disturbing and all involved should be ashamed.

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

I like him old.

"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."

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.

Great

Passes the time.