YOUNG
SHERLOCK HOLMES
When you think about Computer Genrated Images you
automaticaly think Jurassic Park, Terminator 2,
and Tron as some of the first movies to use it right? Well the one youll
forget to mention will always be Young Sherlock Holmes. Made the same year as the
disgusting MST3K favorite, Hobgoblins(ewww) with Steven Spielburg as its
producer, it became the first to use a CGI that actually interacted with the chracters on
screen.
Not thats really important. The actual CGI
creature (a stain glass knight come to life) is on screen for about 10 seconds and
doesnt do much for the plot other then be the haluination of a posioned priest.
That priest is just one of many people who have been
poisioned and committed suicide after experianceing strange halucinations that only they
see. Since this is Victorian London everyone else just asumes that they have gone insane
and dismiss the hole thing as another suicide.
Besides the priest another man who has been murdered
is a man named Waxflatter, who just so happens to me the metor of young Sherlock Holmes
(Nicholas Rowe) who, with an even younger John Watson in tow, sets out to solve the case.
Such is the plot of this movie, basied on the
writings of Sir Arthur Conan (not the Barbarian) Doyal. And while he didnt actualy
write this the actual writer (Chirs Columbus, and no, not that Chris Columbus. Im
sure he get asked that a lot) says that this movie was "infured" by Doyls
writings.
I guess infured is a good word since
this is a real period remake of Victorian times. And the chracters look and speek like
minature versions of Doyals chracters. As Sherlock Holmes Nick Rowe fits the part to a T,
playing the part with a little bit of deduction and just a smigin of dry wit.
Alan Cox as Watson under goes a nice change, from
scred little boy into reluctant acomplice, the part that Watson would play all throughout
his colaboration with Holmes in latter years.
And since this is Steven Spielburg this movie is
packed with cool looking sets and out of this world stuff, such as when Holmes and Watson
fly through the aid of Waxflatters flying machines.
And did you know that Holmes had a love interest. He
did, and shes played by Sophie Ward. Though she doesnt get to do much except
play the ladie in waiting for most of the movie she does provide an explination for why
Holmes never had a love enterest throughout Doyals stories.
While this isnt one of thoes Jurassic Park esq blookbusters it does provide a
good, fun movie experience. And, like it or not, entertainment is what movies should be
all about.
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POSSIBLE FIVE)
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DOYLE WOULD BE PROUD
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