Synopsis
Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a murder at Buckingham Palace. They soon learn that they have only four days to solve the case, or the queen will become the next victim.
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Cast
- Will FerrellSherlock Holmes
- John C. ReillyDr. John Watson
- Rebecca HallDr. Grace Hart
- Kelly MacdonaldMrs. Martha Hudson
- Rob BrydonInspector Lestrade
- Lauren LapkusMillie
- Pam FerrisQueen Victoria
- Ralph FiennesProf. James Moriarty / Jacob Musgrave
- Adam ScherrBrawn
- Kieran O'BrienPC Smalls
Recommendations
- 42
IndieWire
The trouble with Holmes & Watson, a witless Sherlock Holmes spoof that supplies fewer laughs in its entirety than “Step Brothers” does in its deleted scenes, is that the movie can never decide how dumb it wants to be. Or, more accurately, what kind of dumb it wants to be. - 40
The New York Times
There is still intermittent joy to be found in their autumnal bromance. - 40
Variety
The trouble is, Sherlock Holmes exists so large in audiences’ minds already that the pair’s uninspired take feels neither definitive nor an especially fresh take, but just an off-brand, garden-variety parody. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Because of the talent involved, every now and then Holmes & Watson hits on something bizarrely inspired. - 33
Entertainment Weekly
A brilliant supporting cast, which includes Hugh Laurie, Steve Coogan, Ralph Fiennes, Lauren Lapkus, Rebecca Hall, and Kelly MacDonald, is utterly wasted on this lame and forgettable outing. The only real mystery is why they wanted to be apart of this project at all. - 30
Austin Chronicle
Combined with some awfully lazy riffs on Holmes’s fondness for his seven-per-cent solution, Holmes & Watson is not so much a case of whodunit as it is a question why bother. - 25
Movie Nation
It’s just not funny. - 12
RogerEbert.com
So excruciatingly awful that you have to wonder what it was, other than their paychecks, that could have possessed the cast and crew to keep coming back each day, when it must have been obvious from the first day of shooting that the project was the most hopeless of cases imaginable.
