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But Holmes is also sanitized in a way that robs this film of the deliciously dark underside that dominated Doyle's work and, in films, the wonderful Seven Percent Solution. Holmes here is an adolescent Bond armed with a quiverfull of trademark one-liners and an evanescent girlfriend to give...
Perhaps it is sour grapes to argue with the pervasive sense of fun and abandon that characterizes Holmes and has been the hallmark of Spielberg's past work. To his credit, Spielberg has not asked to be taken seriously as an artist and he delivers entertainment and good will like...
Columbus, a self-proclaimed Charles Dickens fans, wrote Gremlims, Goonies, and Young Sherlock Holmes, and is currently sitting on or near the top of the film-writing pile.
His latest youthful leading man, the pint-sized Sherlock Holmes, is so precocious as to be almost wholly unchildlike. Columbus says he scoured Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books for hints at the genesis of the "cold, emotionless bachelor" that Holmes was to become. At one point, Columbus reports, one...
Even with in-laws to draw upon, it can take a long time to write a successful script. Gremlins took nine drafts, including one which killed off most of the family. Goonies was tapped out much more quickly, under studio pressure, but Young Sherlock Holmes's first draft took nine...