Film
Sherlock Gnomes
- Director
- John Stevenson
- Certificate
- U
- Running Time
- 86 mins
One of those films whose title, one strongly suspects, came long before the script. It’s actually a belated sequel to the 2011 family animation Gnomeo and Juliet.
James McAvoy and Emily Blunt are back as the voices of the lovers of restricted growth who this time recruit great detective Sherlock Gnomes (Johnny Depp, clearly needing the work) and Gnome Watson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) to investigate the disappearance of a bunch of garden ornaments. US reviews were damning (“The actors give little life to the proceedings, since no one’s bothered to figure what this movie has to offer beyond terrifically tactile stone figures going through the motions of what might be called Generic Animated Action Rescue Plot” – Variety), though bizarrely the soundtrack is packed with Elton John classics that the target audience won’t recognise and Elton in-jokes that they won’t understand (he’s the executive producer). Oh, and Ozzy Osbourne voices a garden deer.
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