Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)

i must have seen a different film!!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Christmas special brings something different than previous "episodes" we are used to. I liked the idea and movie had all predispositions to be the best "episode" so far, but unfortunately, it isn't. I can not point my finger exactly and say "Look, that's what spoiled it all," but something's off. I think the best explanation would be to say that in this "episode" everything is too much. Everything is on right path, but it goes too far, and even the best things in life lose their charms when they're overdone.7/10

I love all the other Sherlock episodes, some more, some less, but this one is not one I will be watching again. It's silly, strained and trying way too hard. The weird make-up, the forced social message, none of it really worked at all. About the only part I liked about it somewhat was the retro look. The way they tried to explain things at the end was put together in a rather slipshod and really just silly, unsavoury manner. The story did not hold together very well at all. And it certainly did nothing to link it to Moriarty.Alas, it just wasn't at all enjoyable.

This was purported to be a flashback to the 1890s and a more "true" depiction of Conan Doyle's Holmes. It was a dark and hopeless episode centered on Holmes overdosing on cocaine and hallucinating the entire story. Holmes was at his worst: arrogant, aloof, and depressed. Death, infidelity, murder, and quasi-homosexual obsessions and innuendo between Holmes and Moriarty made for a totally unedifying movie. It starts out dark and ends even more darkly. Never a ray of virtue, hope, or wholesome values.The writers and producers of this episode seem proud of their work. But unless you are a Goth drug addict who wants to wallow in darkness for 90 minutes, this is not for you, and definitely not for family viewing.Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, did a good job of interpreting Doyle without dragging the viewer into total darkness. The screen writers, directors, and actors of their many movies provided some sunshine at least at the end of the story.When "artists" have to resort to continual and amplified displays of gore, lust, sexual innuendo, and drug addiction, it is a sign of a lack of creativity. Modern "Hollywood" has spent years nurturing in its audience a taste for unsavory, crude, and bawdy junk-food entertainment and fills its menu with nothing else it seems.As you can tell, I am disappointed with the new "normal" in movies.

Not a fan of this series (Brett was best - closest to how I remember envisioning Holmes/Watson, as a kid reading the collected works of Doyle/Watson). So, I went flipping around and happened upon a Victorian sequence, about a third of the way through the program, and that hooked me. I quickly realized I wasn't watching Rathbone/Brett Holmes but, would be more than pleased if the current actors split next Season into Victorian Holmes/present day Holmes.Weaving in and out of, and otherwise taking liberties with the temporal dimension was outstanding (kept waiting for the writers to go slipping right over the Falls themselves). Only episode I sat still for, and will watch, again.