Movie Review: Young Sherlock Holmes | Mountain Xpress

Young Sherlock Holmes (PG-13)

Ken Hanke | 11/09/2010

Genre: Fantasy/Adventure/Mystery
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Starring: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Susan Fleetwood, Freddie Jones

Considering its pedigree—a Chris Columbus screenplay, Steven Spielberg producing, Barry Levinson directing—Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) is surprisingly not awful. In fact, if you can go with the rethinking of Holmes and Watson meeting during a stint at school in their teenage years and having adventures then (I know Holmes purists who can’t), it’s a pleasant enough couple of hours. Yes, it’s overproduced. It’s from Spielberg, how could it not be? And, yes, it plays a little like I Was a Teenage Sherlock Holmes and the Temple of Doom, but that only keeps it from being a nice diversion if you take this stuff too seriously.

The Hendersonville Film Society will show Young Sherlock Holmes at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14, in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) is surprisingly not awful.
I disagree. I find it predictably terrible. It reeks of everything I dislike about Disney, despite not being a Disney product. Watching this feels like being told to have fun by irritating elementary school teacher for 109 minutes.