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Summary: Popular propaganda all rolled into one...
Review: I think my title says it all. Basically they took all the famous aspects of Sherlock and made it into a tv series for the kiddies. Now if you are say... under ten then yes this would be very entertaining. A true Sherlock Holmes fan would be insulted. Such cliches as the deerstalker hat and "the game is afoot" have been inserted that were never in the original stories by Doyle and my main complaint was... they took all the same old stories and just added small changes. For new and young fans it isa find but to any person who enjoys Sherlock Holmes for intellectual matters would be disugsted by this series.
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Summary: Enjoyable animation adaptations
Review: In 1999-2002 Scottish Television Enterprises released 26 anime-influenced episodes that mostly adapted the classic stories of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle. Although intended for children, the animations are enjoyable to adult fans of Sherlock Holmes to see where characters, plot threads, and dialog has been lifted from the original stories. The animations are well done, and the episodes have some surprisingly sophisticated vocabulary, as "conundrum" and "sibling rivalry."
Seven of the 26 episodes have been released on two DVDs issued by different companies:
(1) The fall & rise of Sherlock Holmes (released 4/02 by Trimark) contains (TT 1.18):
The fall and rise of Sherlock Holmes [adaptation: The final problem]
The crime machine [adaptation: The valley of fear]
The hounds of the Baskervilles: [adaptation: The Hound of the Baskervilles]
The sign of four
also: a multiple-choice game
(2) Out of this world (released 9/03) by UAV contains (TT 1.28):
The sign of four
The adventures of the dancing men
Silver Blaze
The Gloria Scott
Note that "The sign of four" is duplicated. "Fall," "Crime," and "Hounds" are the first three episodes;
the other episodes are out-of-sequence.
The episodes are enjoyable if watched in small doses, for example, for snippets of dialogue from the canon, plus robotics and modernistic stuff like "DNA scans." The first episode ("Fall") will be of greatest interest in transporting Holmes from the 20th to 22nd century.
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Summary: sherlock holmes in the 22nd century
Review: It was better than i expected. If you like history and science fiction mixed than this is for you. I liked the mixture of computer animation along with the regular animation. Also its not rocket science mysteries, just simple fun
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Summary: sherlock holmes in the 22nd century
Review: It was better than i expected. If you like history and science fiction mixed than this is for you. I liked the mixture of computer animation along with the regular animation. Also its not rocket science mysteries, just simple fun
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Summary: A Cut Above Most Children's Shows
Review: My son and I both watch the T.V. show which is showing on Fox Kids in the fall of 2003. This show, along with episodes from this movie, is delightful and entertaining. The intellectual component is far above the other childrens shows currently on T.V. We were pleasantly surprised to find this DVD and its companion, The Rise and Fall of Sherlock Holmes. Wish they would renew the series and produce some new episodes. It sure beats 99% of the other garbage that is out there for kids to watch. This one actually teaches them the science of logic and the powers of observation!
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Summary: Unfortunate, my dear Watson...
Review: This short-lived cartoon series from 1999 started with an interesting premise; Sherlock Holmes was cryogenicly frozen, and thawed out in the 22nd Century. His faithful companion Watson is long dead (replaced with a robot), and he is now faced with a female version of Inspector Lestrade. The question quickly becomes, can Holmes' intellect and specialized skills help him to solve futuristic crimes with the same success he had in Victorian England?Sadly for Holmes fans, the ideas stop there. Little or nothing makes much sense as far as the master detective's history or methods are concerned, and beyond the basic premise I just outlined, the balance of the program is limited to standard cartoon mystery fare not even on a par with Scooby Doo... AFTER Scrappy Doo joined the cast. There are many happy, forced jokes, and little or no true Holmesian deduction. Serious Sherlock Holmes fans will certainly wish to avoid the series, since it is aimed squarely at youngsters. Parents, on the other hand, have nothing to fear from the show if they wish to sit their kids down in front of it. Only a serious student of the master detective will find the program objectionable.
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