# Young Sherlock Holmes-1985 movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 25, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sherlock-holmes-1985-movie/940741 "2021-04-25T12:55:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sherlock-holmes-1985-movie/940741/1 "2021-04-25T12:55:31Z")
I watched this last night with my mom as she’d never seen it before now. It’s heavier than I remember and feels like The Irregulars in a way-a story with Holmes stuff bolted onto it. Very Spielberg movie. I didn’t know Pixar did animation for this film. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sherlock-holmes-1985-movie/940741/2 "2021-04-25T13:01:28Z")
I’ll say this about it: They got three of the character’s names right. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sherlock-holmes-1985-movie/940741/3 "2021-04-25T13:33:06Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I didn’t know Pixar did animation for this film. It was before they were properly Pixar, still basically a division of ILM, and the first time CGI was used to animate a “character”, if you can call that stained-glass knight a character. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sherlock-holmes-1985-movie/940741/4 "2021-04-25T13:35:14Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > It was before they were properly Pixar, still basically a division of ILM, and the first time CGI was used to animate a “character”, if you can call that stained-glass knight a character. Beaten out by Cocoon for an award, if I remember right. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sherlock-holmes-1985-movie/940741/5 "2021-04-26T02:57:35Z")
I thought it was a pleasant little movie. I didn’t realize that Nicholas Rowe, the actor who played Holmes, wound up playing the role again decades later. In the 2015 movie _Mr. Holmes_, which somehow managed to slip my notice even as I happily gobbled up episodes of _Elementary_ and _Sherlock_, he does so in a movie-within-a-movie that the main character sees. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sherlock-holmes-1985-movie/940741/6 "2021-04-26T14:31:32Z")
It was an “eh” movie. Watson was played as a Nigel Brucian foil. It didn’t help that David Burke (and later Edward Hartwicke) was playing a more intelligent and respectable Watson opposite Jeremy Brett in the Granada TV version at the time. the Phil Tippett rod puppets (they didn’t actually do any stop-motion IIRC) and the then state-of-the-art CGI were cute diversions, but betray who the real audience was. I think of this as _Sherlock Holmes and the Temple of Doom_ The post-credits stinger was a treat, though. I was one of those who stayed around for just this sort of thing. Joe Dante had begun putting little extras after the credits, and **RoboCop** had a hidden joke in the closing credits, so I knew it was worthwhile to stay. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sherlock-holmes-1985-movie/940741/7 "2021-04-26T16:19:16Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > The post-credits stinger was a treat, though. I was one of those who stayed around for just this sort of thing. Joe Dante had begun putting little extras after the credits, and **RoboCop** had a hidden joke in the closing credits, so I knew it was worthwhile to stay. I brought this up not all that long ago in another thread. I had recently re-watched the movie, and was surprised by the stinger, of which I had absolutely no memory. Apparently I didn’t stick around when I first watched it. What also struck me was that this is the earliest example I could think of or find of a stinger that wasn’t just outtakes or a gag, but an actual continuation of the movie’s plot and a set-up for the plot of the sequel (which in this case never came about). As to the movie itself, > [@CalMeacham](#): > > I think of this as _Sherlock Holmes and the Temple of Doom_ Amend that to _The Young Sherlock Holmes Chronicles: The Temple of Doom_, and I agree 100%. Which isn’t really a _bad_ thing, in my opinion, but, yeah, Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes it ain’t.