Late at night, after being outside all day.
In our bunks by the fire, daughter and I started watching it.
Between my bad hearing (and the fact that the portable DVD player doesn't get very loud anyway) and being out in the cold a lot, I kept falling asleep through it.
So, last week, when I got back home I found time to watch it free on Amazon Prime.
And it was a lot better than I expected.
Holmes, voiced by Johnny Depp, was played very much to how we could expect the Canonical Holmes to be; driven by his trade, aloft, focused and seemingly oblivious to how others feel.
Watson, voiced by Chiwetel Ejiofor, was played more like side-kick than silent partner (which ended up being the plot of the story. Perhaps a little more Jude's Watson than Bruce's.
The animation was well done.
One did not have to have seen any of the other Gnome movies to enjoy this one. It stood very well on its own.
Although fairly well done, the Moriarty character was a little to close the bad guy in the first 'The Incredibles' movie for me, Some of his one-liners were very funny however.
There were some fun pearls buried in the story that kept one looking.
The plot needed a little more fleshing out, but overall I thought the film fun.
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