two types of Holmes

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Robert Downey, Jr and Jude Law, with Stephen Fry as Mycroft

If you didn't like the first one this isn't going to be any better for you, unless you really really really like turn-of-the-twentieth-century guns. The first film, as I said at the time, had a number of canonical pleasures for a profoundly acanonical experience; this one had fewer canonical pleasures but was still an enjoyable, albeit even less Holmesian, experience.

( brief spoilers here )

Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, with the greater London area as itself.

First, tangentially, I have a very hard time not going into an extensive Izzardian Englebert Humperdinck routine every time I write "Benedict Cumberbatch." Bendybert Cummerbund! Umptydink Crummerbutt! Hashtytag Tumblrbunch! ANYWAY.

Second, and primarily, I enjoyed that quite a lot, particularly the relationships between John, Sherlock, Mrs. Hudson and Mycroft, the passing references to a number of updated stories (there was flailing, I'm not too proud to admit that there was flailing), and the recurrence of the number 1895. Because it is always 1895!

I have one major spoilery objection.

( OBJECTION )