thought the trailer looked brilliant!

liked it and as he has never done that with a Guy Ritchie film before then it must be worth a punt

- in all its full screen bravura - but having small kids means that trips to the picture palace are limited these days. We will, however, be going to see Alvin & The Chipmunks 2: The Squeakel later today.

Actually I'm quite looking foward to it as I really enjoyed the first one....

"Psst, Sheev!"

"What?"

"Remember where you are"

"Er, oh yeah - um - another disgraceful example of cynical Hollywood, exploiting hapless parents caving into pester power manipulated by a soulless marketing machine. Not like in my day with our Star Wars and ET, our Action Man toys and Chopper bikes. Pah! Well I for one am making a stand. I'd rather see my children miserable than take them to see an empty exercise in anodyne anthropomorphic nonsense. I urge you all to join me in boycotting such..."

on Christmas Day with the rest of the family. Great fun - some interesting geographic inconsistencies and implausable plot turns - but - hey - its the movies.
I have not read the books but my 14 yo daughter says it was good interpretation.
A thoroughly enjoyable evening - what more can we ask for

I was given a Holmes omnibus for Christmas before which I hadn't even read Hounds of The Baskervilles. I read the whole lot start to finish and loved every one. I keep meaning to catch up on the Jeremy Brett versions which I've only heard good things about. Like Sheev I have only seen childrens films at the cinema in the last few years so maybe this should mark my return to grown up cinema.

Ian Hart as Watson looked very good, unfortunately I was in too much of an 'altered state' by that point, I may download it

of Sir Del Jacobi's audiobooks.

with an enthusiastic american audience in Boston. Never liked the Guy Ritchie style, probably overinfluenced by Kermode (me, not GR), but this is a good exciting and entertaining film. Gets up to a good pace quickly and stays at that pace. A bit long at 2 hours 10 but an entertaining time was definitely had by all. From comments on the way out, it was thoroughly enjoyed by most.
Against all the odds, Downey and Law make a good double act, and the sequel is bound to be on the way shortly.
Haven't heard Kermode review yet, but if he likes it then Ritchie has done a really good job. Recommended.

Completely ludicrous if mildly enjoyable. Irritating ending, unnecessary fight scenes and RDJ's accent not quite as good as Dick Van Dyke's. Cringey cgi also.

with low expectations but enjoyed it. It's certainly not an authentic Conan-Doyle Holmes (but that's what Jeremy Brett is for) but actually, the relationship between Holmes and Watson is quite nicely done, and Holmes was a master fighter, so that wasn't too much of a stretch.

Astonishingly, Jude Law didn't make me want to punch him in the face for once, and he didn't do the Watson-as-dolt routine that has been so overdone by previous actors.

It's total popcorn, but as long as you know that's what you're going to see, what's wrong with that?

... or who played Conan-Doyle, but several years ago there was a great series called something like The Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes with (I think) Ian Richardson as Doctor Bell, who was Conan-Doyle's inspiration for Holmes. We got a few episodes here on PBS maybe 9 or 10 years ago and I remember it being a very entertaining series.