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Rating:  - THE GAME'S AFOOT
Twenty years after its initial release, YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES remains a glowing and entertaining film, produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Chris Columbus. Lushly filmed, with state of the art special effects, YOUNG SHERLOCK posits how Holmes met up with Watson, why he remained a bachelor, and gives us some hints as to how the mature Holmes would end up. The cast is marvelous: Nicholas Rowe has a young Basil Rathbone face, and attacks his role with fervor; Alan Cox is stereotypical but fine as the young Watson; Sophie Ward is a lustrous Elizabeth; Anthony Higgins a dashing villain; the late Susan Fleetwood (Mick's sister) a sinister accomplice; and Freddie Jones excellent as always as one of the victims. Reminiscent of the Harry Potter series, it still maintains a charming originality and deserved to fare better.
Rating:  - JK Rowling STOLE the characters from this movie!
I know alot of people are comparing this movie to the Famous
"Harry Potter" movies, but this movie came first!
JK Rowling took ALOT of the characters from here and added them to her books. If you look at Watson's character (played by Alan Cox)
He looks EXACTLY like how Harry Potter looks!
The SAME glasses, even the SAME hairstyle!
There was even a fellow student at the school that looked EXACTLY like Malvoy (the conceited know-it-all who hates Harry Potter)
The Fencing teacher looked EXACTLY like one of the Professors at the Hogwarts school.
Along with the whole semi-magical atmosphere..but not to the extreme...
Think about it.
Nicholas Rowe as Sherlock Holmes delivers a exceptional performance, and was very believable (even though he had
basically one express through out the whole movie)
Anyways,I remember this from when I was a kid; I rented it at my local video store and kept renting it because I liked it so much...now I recently purchased it on DVD and despite no "Special features" or anything, is still great in DVD Quality transfer, and am happy to have it as a part of my collection.
Maybe if this movie was made now,it would be a national phenomenon with the advance Technology and CGI special effects...this movie would have been a SUPER-smash just like
Harry Potter.
But unfortunately it was made at the wrong time (1985)
and no one at that time was feeling Sherlock Holmes as a
Major money making thing. I always hoped for a sequel but it
just never came. Maybe someone can rejuvenate this movie...just a thought.
Overall this movie is exciting, adventurous, suspensful,mysterious, and even funny, It's recommended for all audiences.
Rating: - An underrated adventure!
A series of bizarre murders conducted by a secret Egyptian cult in London are using blowdarts with drugs in them to give people freaky hallucinations. A Young man named "Watson" is a new student who just enrolled in a boarding school where he meets a pre-teen student named "Sherlock Holmes" whom definitely wants to become a detective. Sherlock with Watson become good friends as they both are baffled by the mysterious crimes and they begin to investigate these strange murders conducted by the evil cult.
A very entertaining and imaginative adventure from executive producer Steven Spielburg and writer Chris Columbus with tons of great ideas, good special effects on the hallucinations even with the scene that has Watson being attacked by walking talking pasteries, the first CGI character on film, great acting and the music score is sooo underrated but very good. I recommend this movie to anyone who loves a good adventure, but stick around during the ending credits for a suprise.
The DVD is practically barebones with no extras, not even a trailer but has decent picture & fine sound quality.
Also recommended: Return to Oz, Making Contact ( a.k.a. Joey), Big Trouble in Little China, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, Poltergeist, The Mummy ( 1999), Van Helsing, Vampire Hunter D, The Great Mouse Detective, Ghostbusters, The Goonies, and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.
Rating: - 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!
Rating: - An intriguing and entertaining 'what-if' fantasy adventure
With Steven Spielberg in the producing chair it should come as no real susprise that 1985s YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES as a definite Indiana Jones influence to it - most specifically Spielberg's most recent entry (at that time) into the popular frnachise INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM. Nowhere is this more evident than in the ancient hidden temple setting where our young heroes uncover much of the villains evil plot.
For a Sherlockian the movie is a curious anomaly, but incredibly entertaining. We know from the books of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that Dr. Watson met Sherlock Holmes when both were in adulthood, yet this movie poses the irresistible `what-if' they had met earlier when both were in boarding school.
As one would expect with a movie from Spielberg's Amblin company, this movie is very colorful and filed with dazzling special effects - courtesy of Industrial Light and Magic. The plot essentially takes a back seat to the fun of spotting Holmesian references, watching his already developing deductive intellect solving puzzles and rooting for a bittersweet, blossoming romance between Holmes (played by Nicholas Rowe of LA FEMME MUSKETEER) and Elizabeth (Sophie Ward).
For what it's worth the central plot involves a poisoned darts, hallucinations, DaVinci inventions, a strange Egyptian religious cult and a mysterious secret several distinguished men have kept buried for years. It all makes for some very Spielbergesque style adventure entertainment that director Barry (RAIN MAN) Levinson manages to weave into an enjoyable and intriguing movie.
Sherlockian purists will likely find this premise hard to swallow, but as a diehard fan of the Great Detective, I for one had a great time with this movie.
Unquestionably the chracterization of Watson is influenced more by the Rathbone-Bruce movies of the 1930s and 1940s than Conan Doyles novels with this movie featuring Alan Cox in the part of the future doctor, a role he handles well with warmth and good humor.
Also of note in this movie is some wonderful period costumes and impressive sets.
With doses of mystery, fantasy, intrigue and adventure this movie is easy to recommend, not only for Sherlockians but for those of us who simply enjoy good, solid, fun movies.
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