Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: PG-13

Back again. I wish I could do this more, but my life won't allow it.

This Sherlock Holmes sequel picks up where the first one left off. Sherlock is searching for Professor Moriarty, Watson gets married, you know. If you haven't seen the first one, go watch it because it rocks. Anyway, after Holmes discovers that a fortune-teller's brother is somehow involved with Moriarty, who leaves no loose ends, Holmes sets out to find him, hoping he could help to incriminate Moriarty. However, Moriarty is playing a dangerous 'game' with Holmes, threatening to destroy everyone he loves. This may be the first time someone has matched his brilliance.

First of all, I have been looking forward to this movie for months. I love Sherlock Holmes! This movie was not as good as the first (everyone should watch the first one), but I still really liked it. It had great fight scenes, good action, and an interesting storyline that was hard to follow (in a good way, but maybe it was just the late showing), but nicely summed up at the end. And during the summary everyone goes "WOAH!". It's cool. I also thought it was ended cleverly. If any of you have read the book, you would know it ends in a way that the movie audience wouldn't like. So, the filmmakers made an ending that would satisfy both the book lovers and the theater audience. I loved the last 20ish minutes! Very clever in my not-so-humble opinion. Now, the downside. I felt like they tried too hard to make it funny. Sometimes It seemed like Sherlock was turning into Jack Sparrow with all of his quirkiness. Sherlock Holmes is supposed to be quirky, but not in the same way as Jack Sparrow. A lot of the humor was badly written and just not funny. I got pretty sick of it after a while. Luckily, the cast is really great, so that sort of helped. The intellectual parts were way better than the parts that were supposed to make me laugh.

This movie is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action violence, a scene of torture, and a scene with very implied nudity. I couldn't quite call it implied nudity because I felt like it was more than implied with the camera sometimes going dangerously low on Sherlock's nude brother. Luckily, this scene is pretty short. I wish they hadn't put it in, or had been kinder with their camera angles, but you still don't see anything but the top of someone's backside. Because of this scene, I think someone should be a mature 15 year old to see this movie.

I very much enjoyed this movie. I am a huge Sherlock Holmes fan! This movie is worth seeing, and I actually have tickets to see it again today. It's not the best and it is clearly a sequel that will never live up to the original. If you want a sequel that lives up to the original, go see Kung Fu Panda 2.