The movie depicts a young Sherlock Holmes and John Watson meeting and solving a mystery together at a boarding school in which assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths.
22 September 1921, San Antonio, Texas, USA
21 September 1919, Malta
30 December 1964, London, England, UK
9 May 1947, Northampton, England, UK
22 January 1927, Eltham, London, England, UK
1 April 1926, Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
26 July 1918, Chittagong, Bengal Presidency, British India
2 June 1935, Bramhall, Cheshire, England, UK
22 November 1966, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
3 October 1911, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK
4 July 1926, Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, UK
21 September 1944, St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
9 September 1935, Madaba, Jordan
1 November 1926, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
11 February 1908, Liverpool, England, UK
13 July 1967, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
27 March 1932, Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, UK
28 July 1905, Birkenhead, England, UK
19 January 1957, Hertfordshire, England, UK
26 April 1908, Nafferton, East Yorkshire, England, UK
6 August 1970, London, England, UK
12 September 1927, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
February 22, 2004
By the time Young Sherlock Holmes clangs to a close, the assets of the film are buried beneath an avalanche of unnecessary bells and whistles.
August 21, 2004
Squanders its start as a charming character study.
July 20, 2004
Like a peacock showing its bright colours. Sadly, it's all about show, not substance.
March 23, 2010
This is the origin story for the world's first consulting detective that Conan Doyle was never considerate enough to write for us...
July 06, 2004
Reveals that Holmes' true love is tortured to death in a big-budget extravaganza that provided the bastard sire for Jar Jar Binks.
June 20, 2003
Not so successful try to install some youth in the Holmes canon.
November 23, 2003
definitely worth a better reception than it's received over the years.
December 05, 2003
There is something about Holmes's elegant, haunting, and whisperingly melancholic distance, his analytical remove from the world, that inspires a desire for glimpses of the baroque corridors of labyrinthine interiors.
June 30, 2005
The idea to center on Holmes and Watson as young men is good and original but the execution is rather poor and Levinson's direction is impersonal.
May 23, 2004
Big, silly, loud, nicely designed, and occasionally enjoyable.
