Holmes and Watson trailer. Wow! Does this look bad.

[Falstaff13]

I will probably pass on seeing this in the theaters, but I figure it will find its audience and do all right. This feels like a 1970s film (given we got Moore & Cook's Hound of the Baskervilles, John Cleese's Strange Case of the End of Civilisation as We Know It, and Gene Wilder's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, all within a few years). I assume this speaks more to the clout Ferrell has, and I think he does a good job with his films. He's stumbled a few times, but, overall, he turns in hits, and I remember a trivia fact when Step Brothers came out that his films tend to come in under budget along with being hits, so he has to make execs happy.

[knight errant00]

Apparently, even the people going to see it are having a hard time with it: https://ew.com/movies/2018/12/27/hol...s-reviews-bad/

[MysteryWho]

I love Will and John, they do good work together and on their own, but the moment I watched the trailer I knew something was amiss.

[huedell]

Poor script? Looks like.

Two big stars... classic property exploited....

Looks like the textbook definition of: Cash grab

Even Pryor/Wilder never sunk to temporarily hijacking another franchise for their awkward misses and flops

[cjefferys]

I'm a big fan of Reilly, but never cared for Will Farrell, since his SNL days I always wondered what the big fuss was, I just don't find him that funny. So even before seeing the horrid trailer this was going to be a pass for me.

[MegoRobyn]

We went to go see this on spur of the moment impulse. I enjoy these two together, but I forget I mostly enjoy them in a highlight reel, not a 90 minute film. There's about 5 minutes of good stuff in this film. I didn't hate it but was embarrassed to be there.

And absolutely nothing to recommend it as far as a Holmes parody. Just dumb absurdity.