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- 42IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichThe trouble with Holmes & Watson, a witless Sherlock Holmes spoof that supplies fewer laughs in its entirety than “Step Brothers” does in its deleted scenes, is that the movie can never decide how dumb it wants to be. Or, more accurately, what kind of dumb it wants to be.
- 40The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergThere is still intermittent joy to be found in their autumnal bromance.
- 40VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThe trouble is, Sherlock Holmes exists so large in audiences’ minds already that the pair’s uninspired take feels neither definitive nor an especially fresh take, but just an off-brand, garden-variety parody.
- 40Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayBecause of the talent involved, every now and then Holmes & Watson hits on something bizarrely inspired.
- 33Entertainment WeeklyDana SchwartzEntertainment WeeklyDana SchwartzA brilliant supporting cast, which includes Hugh Laurie, Steve Coogan, Ralph Fiennes, Lauren Lapkus, Rebecca Hall, and Kelly MacDonald, is utterly wasted on this lame and forgettable outing. The only real mystery is why they wanted to be apart of this project at all.
- 30Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovCombined with some awfully lazy riffs on Holmes’s fondness for his seven-per-cent solution, Holmes & Watson is not so much a case of whodunit as it is a question why bother.
- 25Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreIt’s just not funny.
- 12RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiRogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiSo excruciatingly awful that you have to wonder what it was, other than their paychecks, that could have possessed the cast and crew to keep coming back each day, when it must have been obvious from the first day of shooting that the project was the most hopeless of cases imaginable.
- 10The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMaking their previous vehicles Step Brothers and Talladega Nights seem the height of comic sophistication by comparison, Holmes & Watson features the duo parodying Arthur Conan Doyle's famous characters to devastatingly unfunny effect.
- 0The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyIf there are any new jokes left to tell about Holmes, they’re nowhere to be found in the abysmal Holmes & Watson, which might be the worst feature-length film ever made about the “consulting detective” from Baker Street.