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This movie is alot better than the Indiana Jones sequel (Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom). *That is, whoever got the stupid idea of combining these 2 or putting it another way as a copy cat movie, The Indiana Jones sequels suck big-time. It seems as though CNN & FoxNews got together & put spins/lies galore behind the Indiana Jones sequels. ;(... Just like politics as usual.
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Very well filmed. Big Steve did a good job on this one. Has mystery and fun. A bit much for kids and not a historically correct (as the books go) but a fun way to look at how he might have grown up.
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I showed this movie to my 8th grade special education class after we read Sherlock Holmes mysteries. It had a good story line and kept the attention of my students, which is quite a task! There was enough suspense and adventure to keep us all on the edge of our seats.
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Young Sherlock Holmes got a rough ride when it came out - not so much for the notion of Holmes and Watson meeting as children (there'd been a more straight-laced British childrens' TV series about just that a few years earlier that passed without any noticeable outrage) but because it was felt that it owed far more to executive producer than Steven Spielberg than Arthur Conan Doyle. The fact that after it opened to mediocre business Stateside it was retitled Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear to add an Indiana Jones spin to the marketing only added to their impression. Egyptian cults in the heart of London committing human sacrifices, hallucinogenic drugs leading to fatal encounters with turkey dinners and stained-glass windows, flying machines and, worse still, a girl was hardly the stuff of The Strand Magazine's most famous creation. But Doyle himself might have been a bit more forgiving - after all, he had Holmes come up against demon dogs, vengeful Mormons, deadly pygmies and even a vampire, and wasn't adverse to penning tales about vampires and monsters on the side when not attending séances or declaring children's photographs of fairies to be genuine proof of ethereal beings. In many ways the screenwriters have been rather more sympathetic to his creations and their world than they were ever given credit for, speculating on the origins of Holmes' strained relationship with Inspector Lestrade, his reticence with the opposite sex and even his vicious feud with Moriarty (you'll have to stick around for the post-end credits coda for that). And while critics complained that the film was special effects heavy, with his love of camera trickery it's affair bet whatever else he thought of the film, he'd have been delighted by the groundbreaking early CGI effects, which still manage to impress without overwhelming the film (the 2-D stained glass knight in armour is particularly cleverly designed)
Nicholas Rowe is an entirely convincing young Holmes, with an air of natural superiority without being unlikeable, and for the most part Alan Cox (rather unflatteringly used by his father Brian as the model for his turn as Hannibal Lektor!) avoids turning Watson into a clown, while a young Sophie Ward is a very fetching female lead and Anthony Higgins a dashing mentor-figure. The story is enjoyable even if it veers into adventure more than detection by the end, climaxing with a fine swordfight on a thin ice on a frozen river Thames. Not everything is entirely successful - there's a nightmare sequence with some pastries that really should have stayed on the cutting room floor - but the film's much more enjoyable than it has any right to be. It's also beautifully designed with a rather splendid score by Bruce Broughton that ensures it sounds as good as it looks. Great fun.
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I remember seeing this movie a looong time ago when it first came out. I think I actually appreciate and enjoy it more now than I did back when.
Do not be confused -- this isn't a kid's movie per-se. There are some rather scary parts to this movie, and there is a good deal of violence, though none of it is what I would call overly graphic.
The acting is well done, the settings are quaint and fit the storyline well, and when you combine that with a great musical score and a rather intriguing plot, you have what I consider to be a FANTASTIC movie.
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