Holmes & Watson Solves the Case of How to Make a Terrible Movie

Holmes & Watson (2018)

Holmes & Watson was a bad movie. It was unfunny and lazy and felt more like a Melissa McCarthy movie than a Will Ferrell movie. Its very few funny parts were shown in the trailers and the few remaining “jokes” were swipes at low-hanging fruit. Its tongue was firmly entrenched in its cheek and nearly every joke was built off of common observational subjects, like inequity between the sexes, inefficiencies in government, and that the Titanic sunk. The only part that I enjoyed was the musical number near the climax. It was the only risk that the entire movie took, with clever writing and a few surprises. Everything else made the short hour and a half runtime feel nearly twice as long. Holmes & Watson was a waste of my time and was so bad that it makes me question if Talladega Nights and Step Brothers were actually funny. The only way I will ever watch this movie again is if there is an unrated extended cut that might have actual jokes. I give Holmes & Watson 2 out of the 20 times that I wished I were watching either Robert Downey, Jr. Sherlock Holmes movie.