Holmes & Watson: Blu Ray Review

Holmes & Watson: Blu Ray Review

Released by Sony Home Ent

The reteaming of the StepBrothers stars Will Ferrell and John C Reilly should in theory be a success.

However, what Holmes & Watson achieves is nothing short of an utter mess.

The supersleuths are called in when Moriarty apparently threatens the life of Queen Victoria. Claiming she will die within 4 days, the game's afoot for the duo.

Mixing slapstick and the usual Ferrell over-acting, Holmes & Watson is a struggle from beginning to end. Positing Holmes as a kind of idiot is an obvious choice, given the detective is barely ever wrong.  But making him a real dolt gives the film a hard watch from beginning to end.

While Reilly and Ferrell trade on their usual bromance, the film's stultefyingly stupid script  fails to land anything other than the truly corny and wildly unoriginal. It doesn't help that Rebecca Hall is utterly wasted as a love interest for Reilly's Watson.  An odd parody of Ghost in an autopsy room is just the tip of the iceberg of where the film goes - every lazy target is hit and every gag falls flat.

Holmes & Watson isn't perhaps the worst film ever made; though, to be frank, it's up there.