MegaritzMom

I think this short was supposed to be an absurd, funny spoof on Orson Wells, and I frequently like this sort of thing, but I did not find this one funny or enjoyable at any time except when the assistant continued acting after they were "caught". The premise was not very clear in the beginning. The people in the office scenes should have been at least a little believable, but were not. The acting in those office scenes was awful. I could see what the play scenes were going for, but they didn't quite get there. The scene with the mother was particularly bad, and that scene had the potential to be hysterical if done properly. It was hard to tell when David Harbour was acting as himself and when he was acting as his father. There should have been something noticeable to clue the viewers as to which person he was at which times. It was mentioned in another review that this looked like something two high school boys threw together. My own son, Will Lugar and his high school friends, did a spoof on Ed Wood's films that they called Blu Tabascoe and another spoof on Metal Gear called Metal Gear Solid: Fight of Metal Gears. On a zero budget, both are much funnier than this short (they are located on YouTube under user ID megaritz). Watching Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein was a half-hour of my life that I will never get back. I decided to spend another half-hour in an attempt to warn others to not waste their time as I did.

The casting and acting are awful! I only made it about half-way through before I had to turn it off. I turn off less than 5% of the movies I start. The only good thing about this film is the location; it has beautiful scenery!

This movie is not faithful to Conan-Doyle's characters. Mycroft is a disabled recluse instead of a strong-willed, mover-and-shaker in the government. Dr. Watson is a mortician instead of a physician. Sherlock is a drunken womanizer (I suspect that if a person were to really drink all that he did in one evening, that person would end up in the hospital ... or the morgue). Vincent D'Nofrio's performance of Dr. Moriarty comes across as stilted and silly, not at all the brilliant and witty character we are used to seeing; although, I suspect that may be due more to the script than to the acting.

That said, I tried to view the movie on its own merits rather than comparing it to the original stories and other depictions of Sherlock, and this movie still has value as entertainment. The canes doubling as swords and one-shot guns was clever. The sword fights were interesting. Dr. Moriarty as the inventor of a new drug was ingenious.

It wasn't what I'd hoped for, but I'm still glad that I watched it.