One Of The Best Sherlock Holmes Films I've Seen.

Rating: 9/10 (27 December 2009)

This is taken directly from my LiveJournal mini-review.
Before I go any further, I want to warn people that I write fan-fiction (of the slash kind), so my review is very much about what I found to be the slashy moments. Please Google slash if you don't know what I'm talking about. Also, keep in mind that Holmes/Watson was never my OTP (one true pairing) for this fandom until after I saw this film, I never even had an OTP for this fandom until this film.
Here goes...
I entered the theatre with some trepidation, as I am a huge fan of the Shelock Holmes stories of the Arthur Conan Doyle sort. I swore to myself, when I went in there, that I wouldn't try to find slash in a Guy Ritchie film. Big mistake. I found slash, and lots of it. Particularly one scene where Holmes is attempting to disengage Irene Adler from some contraption, and he has to get into Watson's pockets, so he undoes Watson's belt and says "don't get excited." I nearly choked on the water I was drinking at that point. That and the "I never complain. When do I complain about you practicing the violin at three in the morning?" scene (which, by the way, starts with a very cute shot of Holmes dozing on Watson's shoulder). The script does nothing to help the fact that Robert Downey Jr. (Holmes) and Jude Law (Watson) have an incredible amount of chemistry. The script has these gorgeous banter scenes between Holmes and Watson, ones, I believe, have an amazing amount of potential. There wasn't much of a plot, though. Ignore the failure of a plot and just go with it. I adored it, not for the slashy moments (although there were many) but because the essence of the true Conan Doyle characters of Holmes and Watson were there... That, and there were some pretty awesome explosions and the CGI Victorian London was amazing. Costuming was also bang on. Watson is also finally Holmes' equal, not some bumbling sidekick, just the way Conan Doyle wanted him to be (I believe).