Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Sanjeev Waters A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Eric Stevenson This movie begins and ends by saying that there are no Sherlock Holmes novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that this movie is based on. It says that it means no disrespect to the man and this is simply how the people who worked on this movie personally interpreted what it would be like if Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson met at an early age. This movie features a young Sherlock Holmes and that's really all you need to know. The most noteworthy thing about film is the special effects. It was the first time in any movie that a full CGI character appeared. It's the knight that appears out of the stained glass window.I was fearing it would just be a really brief scene but it really is important to the story. Even the DVD advertises the great special effects. Honestly, for a film decades old, they hold up! Of course, this is a good movie for the good writing and the like. I thought Sherlock was narrating at first, but it was actually Watson. We get some really cute set ups to later parts of the Sherlock Holmes mythology. It all pays up at the end with a great climax and be sure to stay after the credits too. I was reminded of "Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom" which came out the previous year also made by Steven Spielberg. I had no idea he worked on this movie and was so prolific! ***

taylorjan-63962 I first saw this film when it was released and remember being blown away by the special effects. The hallucinations are brought to life by some extremely clever special effects people (they should have one the Oscar). The knight jumping from the church's stained glass window is fantastic. Even watching it recently, it's absolutely brilliant (it hasn't dated like those effects in Jason and the argonauts/clash of the titans - which are still great films).The film crops up on TV now and again but recently I watched it with family, telling them how much I had enjoyed it. The young lads playing Holmes and Watson are great to watch (where are they now?) and the rest of the cast is equally as good. The film is very atmospheric, and lovely to watch; a Victorian London, and a school and dining hall exactly as Harry Potter's - which came some years later. There is some humour, as well as a good story. We see the first meeting of Watson and Holmes and instantly take to them. The stammering, old and slow science teacher is fun to watch, as is the bored reaction of the pupils. Again, very Potterish.A great film for young and not so young and a good introduction to Holmes.

thisseatofmars Young Sherlock Holmes is a great looking movie. Everything about its Victorian aesthetic, snow-covered burgs, golden-lit night scenes bleed with charm. Some characters are wonderful looking too, specifically the one-eyed man who sells Watson Holmes' stock calabash pipe.Not everything is super hot, though. The scene where Sherlock and Watson go to the exotic tavern with all of the Arab and Asian stereotypes is pretty cartoonish-- the informant they meet there wouldn't look out of place as a live-action villain from Team America: World Police ("durka durka" faux-language for sure) and the music couldn't be more fanciful if it tried. Plus, the filmmakers tried wedging in too many Sherlock-y elements: Sherlock says "the game is a foot" one time too many, and we never really needed to know where Sherlock got his patronizing catchphrase, "Dyno-mite!" (Wait, sorry-- I mean, "Elementary.") Standout scenes/rich images are the stained glass hallucination, the attic setting, the meal hall at night, the labs, and the pyramid. I'll be returning to this film not so much for the plot, but to drink in its visual display.

Robert J. Maxwell Way back in 1983, critics were disappointed in "Something Wicked This Way Comes" because they'd expected a lot of computer-generated images and, except for a brief shot of an incoming train, they didn't get any.They got their wish finally. My wish is that their wish hadn't been so fulsomely fulfilled.Not only are there multiple monsters hopping around but the plot is out of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," except that instead of going to Egypt, Egypt is brought to the heroes -- young Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) and Watson (Alan Cox). The epilogue tells us that this is how the two might have first met, as fellow students in an English public school, but that's not true. We know from Conan-Doyle that they were strangers until they decided to share digs on Baker Street as adults.No sense explaining the plot. We can put it this way. If you liked "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and its many sequels and clones, you'll like this. If you like CGIs, you'll like this. If you like Karl Orff's "Carmina Burana", you'll like this.If you -- well, nope. I guess that's about it.