Holmes and Watson look, as schoolboys, like younger versions of the men they would someday become. So, "the game is a foot!" Holmes suspects foul play about the murders, which were presumed to be suicides, but is rebuffed by Scotland Yard policeman Lestrade when he suggests a connection between the deaths. The traditional world of Holmes (in the movies, anyway) has been limited to fogbound streets, speeding carriages, smoky sitting rooms and the homes and laboratories of suspects. The music for the film was nominated for Grammy and also received a Saturn Award. They accidentally burn down the Rame Tep pyramid, killing several cult members, and Mrs. Dribb is shot through her own blopipe by Holmes and catches fire in her panic. Dutch (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled, Stereo). Of course they are in London where the young Holmes detects a link between a series of bizarre murders (depicted in some lively and imaginative special effects). Why, the solution is elementary -- nothing but adventure! Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune wrote: "The production is first-rate in all technical ways imaginable, but the villain that Holmes and Watson chase is not worth their intellect or time or ours. The traditional world of Holmes (in the movies, anyway) has been limited to fogbound streets, speeding carriages, smoky sitting rooms and the homes and laboratories of suspects. And the budding detective is off on an adventure to solve the most amazing case of his most extraordinary career! Add the first question. [citation needed], This article is about the 1985 film. The site's consensus states: "Young Sherlock Holmes is a charming, if unnecessarily flashy, take on the master sleuth. It really does make sense, once you've overcome the novelty of the idea, that Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson originally met while at school. | When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster. In the United Kingdom and Australia, the film was titled Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear;[9] in Italy only "Pyramid of fear" (Piramide di paura). The first was stop-motion animation-controlled flying harpies, the second was little dancing pastries controlled by rod puppets, and for the third ILM pushed CG technology beyond anything anyone had attempted before: they put the first 3D character into a feature film – a knight that leapt out of a stained glass window and into the history books. Holmes, Watson, and Elizabeth then track the cult to a London warehouse, where the Rame Tep are performing human sacrifices in a secret underground wooden pyramid-shaped temple. [2] Of the creation of the film, Columbus stated: "The thing that was most important to me was why Holmes became so cold and calculating, and why he was alone for the rest of his life," Mr. Columbus explains. [7] This effect was the first CG character to be scanned and painted directly onto film using a laser. An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year. I feel one of the true tests of a good movie is how it holds up over time. "Young Sherlock Holmes"is one of the better ones and works on the premise that Holmes and Watson did not meet as adults in "A Study In Scarlett" but in boarding school. 38 of 41 people found this review helpful. The effect couldn’t have been created in any other way. The effects were supplied by Industrial Light & Magic, the George Lucas brain trust, and the best one is a computer-animated stained glass window that fights a duel with Holmes. Final composites – comprised of the CG knight, animated shadows, and a stained glass window matte painting – were recorded directly to film by a revolutionary laser scanner. Young Sherlock solves the mystery when he deduces that the victims died while under the influence of a hallucinatory drug, but before he does, the hallucinations gave ILM an opportunity to test three technologies for three special effects sequences. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land. While the film is based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the story is an original one penned by Chris Columbus. A drunken Sherlock Holmes is really just a cover for the real detective, Dr. Watson. When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate. Eh-Tar tries to shoot Holmes, but Elizabeth intervenes and takes the hit instead. Teenagers Sherlock Holmes and John Watson meet and become good friends as students at Brompton Academy, a school in London. They begin to experience hallucinations (Elizabeth being buried alive by her uncle, Watson being force-fed by sentient pastries, and Holmes seeing his father angry for him telling his mother of his unfaithfulness and later seeing a real Rame Tep member as his father trying to kill him), but they survive. For unknown reasons, several men with no apparent connection to one another die under mysterious circumstances. As they return to the school, a chance remark by Watson causes Holmes to realize that Eh-Tar is none other than Professor Rathe, but he and Watson arrive too late to stop him and Mrs. Dribb, who is revealed to be Eh-Tar's sister, from abducting Elizabeth. Why, the solution is elementary – nothing but adventure! Directed by Barry Levinson. The film was a box-office disappointment, grossing around $19 million against an $18 million budget. The elaborate special effects also seem a little out of place in a Sherlock Holmes movie, although I'm willing to forgive them because they were fun.