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Holmes & Watson

Holmes and Watson

2018

Etan Cohen

Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Lauren Lapkus, Rob Brydon ...

3.4

1,856

Comedy. Adventure. Mystery There’s been a murder at Buckingham Palace. Four days from now, Queen Victoria herself will become the next victim. Clearly, only Sherlock Holmes and John Watson can solve the case and stop the dastardly James Moriarty from enacting his nefarious plan. But this isn’t an ordinary Sherlock Holmes story: this is Holmes & Watson.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"[It] may be amusing, but the duo’s clueless execution spoils the joke (...) The characters offer so much more promise than anyone here chooses to exploit"	NEG
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Elementary to the extreme (...) Ferrell and Reilly flounder in their titular roles (...) [It] doesn't even manage to be as funny as the recent Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey Jr. versions."	NEG
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"More laughs are all that would have been necessary to prevent the stagnation of 'Holmes & Watson' (...) The filmmakers haven’t remotely figured out how to use Ralph Fiennes"	NEG
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"So painfully unfunny we’re not sure it can legally be called a comedy (…) Rating: ½★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly fail to solve an unfunny script (...) The movie can never decide how dumb it wants to be. Or, more accurately, what 'kind' of dumb it wants to be."	NEG
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly hit career lows in the abysmally unfunny 'Holmes & Watson' (...) It’s pervaded by an air of extreme laziness"	NEG
United States	Peter Sobczynski rogerebert.com	"'Holmes & Watson' is so excruciatingly awful that you have to wonder what it was, other than their paychecks, that could have possessed the cast and crew to keep coming back each day (…) Rating: ½★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide The Guardian	"Elementary homophobic grossout comedy (...) The look of the film is murky and bilious, as if it got dropped into the Victorian sewer system at some point during production (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Canada	Sandy Schaefer Screen Rant	"A lazy comedy that wastes a fun premise and talented cast on tired jokes, tasteless gags, and sometimes bafflingly outdated humor (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"	NEG

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