Entertaining, but lacking substance

Rating: 6/10 (12 January 2012)

I actually liked this one better than the first one, but the word that I think describes this movie best is "flashy". It was very entertaining, but I feel like he could have used any name for the characters, because it just doesn't feel like Sherlock Holmes to me. I'm not worrying about tiny details or anything like that, because adaptations should have their freedoms, but while Guy Ritchie's Holmes and Watson share some common traits with ACD's, they just don't feel anything like the original characters. Holmes is some happy-go-lucky "detective" who likes to get into brawls and to dress up in strange costumes and obviously has a thing for his friend Watson. His original brilliance looks more like cheap tricks (and they fail a few times, I'm thinking of two of his imagined fights here). Watson just doesn't have enough of the sidekick feel to me, he just does too well with using Holmes' methods. I have to say I absolutely love the soundtrack of both movies, and my favorite part was the ending credits, I greatly admire them. To sum things up, this was a very entertaining movie, though a bit too fond of slow motion and with a blatant disregard for the characters and history (just look at the amount of goofs).