Holmes & Watson's reviews
Media reviews
Vulture
As a director, Coen commits comedy?s most cardinal sin: He gets between us and the performers.
Indiewire
The trouble with ?Holmes & Watson,? a witless Sherlock Holmes spoof that supplies fewer laughs in its entirety than ?Step Brothers? does in its deleted scenes.
The Playlist
'Holmes and Watson' will probably make you smile, and occasionally, it earns that goodwill. It?s being solved by detectives missing a key clue.
New York Times
There is still intermittent joy to be found in their autumnal bromance.
Variety
The trouble is, Sherlock Holmes exists so large in audiences? minds already that the pair?s uninspired take feels neither definitive nor especially fresh ? just an off-brand, garden-variety parody.
Los Angeles Times
Because of the talent involved, every now and then 'Holmes & Watson' hits on something bizarrely inspired.
Entertainment Weekly
A 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.
Time Out
A completely charmless, laughs-free experience.
Roger Ebert
So 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.
The Hollywood Reporter
Making 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.
The Wrap
Coroners of comic failure will find much to uncover in the corpse of Holmes & Watson, a thoroughly tedious and never-amusing spoof of Arthur Conan Doyle?s legendary detective.