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 you’ll 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 that’s really important. The actual CGI creature (a stain glass knight come to life) is on screen for about 10 seconds and doesn’t 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 didn’t actualy write this the actual writer (Chirs Columbus, and no, not that Chris Columbus. I’m 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 Waxflatter’s flying machines.

And did you know that Holmes had a love interest. He did, and she’s played by Sophie Ward. Though she doesn’t 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 Doyal’s stories.

While this isn’t 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.

RATING(OUT OF A POSSIBLE FIVE)

DOYLE WOULD BE PROUD

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