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Release Date: 02 December, 2003 Retail Price: $9.99 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (8 total) |
Young Sherlock Holmes Reviews
Superb Holmesian Adventure...
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES(Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee); MURDER BY DECREE(Christopher Plummer & James Mason);and this sterling introduction into the mythology of the World's Greatest Consulting Dective comprise,in my estimate,the three best episodes of the Sherlock Holmes cinematic canon. Nicholas Rowe is excellent as the brilliant,arrogant,yet both heroic and(in this singular outing)endearing one-day super sleuth. Alan Cox is good,if stereotypically "slow-on-the-uptake"John Watson who'll be Holmes'side-kick and literary chronicler.Sophie Ward is radiantly gorgeous as(it will prove)the one love of Sherlock Holmes'Life(So much for Billy Wilder's mildly amusing but rather disappointing PRIVATE LIFE of SHERLOCK HOLMES)...
In YSH,"the game is truly afoot" in a story combining elements of murder mystery;horror story;roguish comedy and pure-of-heart romance. Steven Spielberg's SFX are wondrous yet unostentatious. Chris Columbus'script...up to the very last frame of the film under rolling credits...is inspiredly suspenseful and full of genuine surprise. Director Barry Levison has made Holmes his own in the unique way that James Robinson,Stephen Morrington and Alan Moore failed to bring their LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN to the screen with comparable success.
YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES is great mystery adventure. It's family entertainment to the max; full of action and thrills but void of gratuitous violence and sordid, bogus "sexuality" comprising much PM fare. It's top shelf "right stuff" and anything but "elementary". (7 stars)
Sherlock Holmes as a teenager
I am glad that this film has been released on DVD.
It is about Sherlock Holmes as a teenager still in school. Watson is the new student who is drawn to Sherlock out of curiousity. Watson tags along as others in the school test his powers of deduction.
But when people start to see things that aren't there it leads Sherlock and Watson on their first real mystery. It has the added bonus of Elizabeth, the girl who is the object of Sherlock's love.
This is a definite must for anyone who enjoys movies like Indiana Jones and The Mummy. The special effects are great and the movie is well acted and has a non-predictable ending!
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