The Worst of Netflix: Sherlock Holmes

 

 

This week on the Worst of Netflix, the game is afoot!

Believe it or not, this was actually the first Worst of Netflix selection that I was actually looking forward to watching, for the simple fact that it’s got SHERLOCK HOLMES FIGHTING A DINOSAUR on the cover. Call me a man of simple tastes, but that is literally all I need to hear to get excited about something, and that’s before you throw in the sea monster and the dragon that are also pictured on the cover. In short, I knew going in that it was going to be insane, but every once in a while, there’s a movie that’s so crazy it loops back around to awesome.

Of course, most movies tend to be so crazy that they’re just terrible, and given the Asylum’s track record, I wasn’t really expecting a smooth road.

The Worst of Netflix on Heavy.com: Where the humor is always elementary.

11 thoughts on “The Worst of Netflix: Sherlock Holmes

  1. I can see that this has Gareth David-Lloyd in it. After watching Shark Attack 3: Megalodon on account of John Barrowman, I may have to add this to my list of Awful Movies I Watched Because They Contained Actors From Torchwood.

    Okay, well, if I saw this, it’d be a list as opposed to one movie.

    You should watch Shark Attack 3, though. It’s something special.

  2. The pic of the Sherlock dressed in steampunk armor was another obvious Downy Jr. reference. Holmes is Iron Man!

  3. We Netflixed this one a few weeks ago, for much the same reasons as everyone else (Holmes vs. dinosaurs, Gareth David-Lloyd) but couldn’t get more than half an hour in without turning it off due to boredom. Obviously, based on the description of the climactic battle, we should’ve at least fast-forwarded.

  4. My god….first an Anita Blake comic where things actually happen, now a Worst of Netflix movie that Chris genuinely likes. What’s next…a good Red Tornado comic?

    We are in the End Times.

  5. You know, I can suspend my disbelief with the dinosaurs and all.
    But the real Sherlock would never have that haircut.
    Fail.

  6. MichaelFromJamaicaNY, you have obviously never seen the WW2 era Rathbone films. Sherlock has always been something of a Coiffure Daredevil (and by that, I mean he lets a blind guy cut his hair).

  7. I will totally see this movie.

    Evil brother calls himself Robert? Robert Holmes? There’s an old-school Doctor Who shout-out.

  8. What I don’t get is why they didn’t just hire some cheap British actors and film a random Sherlock Holmes story. Would have made more sense

  9. Howard, I don’t think that’s how the Asylum operates: “Hey, wouldn’t it make more sense to film ‘The Three Students’ with some cheap British actors?” Can’t see that pitch going too far without someone suggesting that the Indian student on the second floor be replaced by a velociraptor.

  10. There WAS a good Red Tornado comic- the Busiek/Infantino series from 1984.