Rotten Tomatoes Score for Holmes & Watson: 8%

The audience is a somewhat more forgiving lot, giving it 29%. They self-selected to see it, so you'd imagine they'd be a bit more interested in the concept.

Here's some of the most brutal reviews of the movie.

This one's from EW. This is funny Because Trump:

If you choose to watch this movie, you’ll be treated to an hour and a half of different versions of the same gag: what if [insert modern thing] somehow existed in Victorian times!? It’s the laziest possible punchline, if you can call it a punchline at all. Where is the joke, for example, in a random pedestrian addressing a newspaper and scoffing, “This is fake news!”? Or Sherlock Holmes trying on a fez that says MAKE ENGLAND GREAT AGAIN? Or Watson attempting a “self-photograph,” duck-face included, with an old-timey camera? A spin-class on penny-farthing bicycles is probably one of three or four moments that might be worth a chuckle, but that aside, it’s a cavalcade of obvious and heavy-handed references lacking either point of view or sense of humor.

posted by Ace of Spades at 05:22 PM

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