Sherlockomania

My sister and I had a Sherlock Exchange today: I brought the BBC series and (in a roundabout way) she provided the Guy Ritchie film. So: I have now SEEN IT. (Yes, more than a year late, hush.) Because more than a few people have asked my opinion on it, I will share.

MY THOUGHTS, IN DESCENDING ORDER:

OMG Production design haaaaaagh.*

It was a great deal of fun

It wasn't Sherlock Holmes.

Nevertheless, I suspect Arthur Conan Doyle would have enjoyed it immensely.

I'm pretty sure electricity doesn't work that way.

Robert Downey Jr's performance really reminded me of someone, in something I've seen recently, but I don't know. Colin Farrell maybe? But in what?

It was more amusing than I had imagined to watch Hypothetical Birdie cavort about the screen

If one goes into great depth detailing someone's very particular eye colour, it would generally be considered wise to invest in some coloured contacts for the actor playing the character whose eyes are being described, especially if you cut to a medium closeup of him immediately following the description.

Surely one could have stopped the awesome-looking steampunk device simply by interrupting the flow of electricity between those two balls at the top, or taking a hammer (or other large heavy implement) to the glass gas-generating canisters. Is that Occam's Razor?

Luckily it is still possible to have the CD as my Herbert West soundtrack.

*that's a Homer Simpson drooling onomatopoeia in case you couldn't tell