michaelsart I thought this movie was full of adventure! I thought the character was really good

ryanbartlett-870-746486 Sherlock Gnomes was as average of a sequel as you can find. There wasn't anything very special about it, not much to look back on. It was just very average. Sherlock Gnomes took the average success of Gnomeo and Juliet and combined that with the actual success of Sherlock Holmes and just smashed the two together. Very similar to Lego video games. They just change the way that the same exact movie is presented. Due to this, they are banking on the success and fanbase of the original movie to go and see this adaptation. Sherlock Gnomes was an average interpretation at best. There were some good Sherlock Holmes moments, but everything between was bland and uneventful. Pair all of this with an art style and quality that wasn't the highest, and you get a low budget, low success, average movie. Expect more cheap gnome knock-offs.

Animated Antic When an animated movie gets a sequel, I can typically understand why they usually get them. Sometimes they are made because the creators have brilliant new ideas to bring to the table while other times they are made because the first movie was a big hit at the box office and the creators see lots of money in their eyes and feel they can make more with a sequel. In most cases it's typically the latter, but in the case of "Sherlock Gnomes" it's neither. In fact, I absolutely have no idea why this movie exists. "Gnomeo and Juliet" wasn't a big critical hit nor was it a big box office hit, so why did the heads of Paramount Animation think that giving a mostly forgotten film from eight years ago a sequel would be a smart idea? I really don't know. What I do know though is that this film is bad. Really bad.A little while after the first film, the bickering neighbors Montague and Capulet settle their differences and move together to London where they set up their garden gnomes in a new garden. The leaders of the gnomes, Gnomeo (James McAvoy) and Juliet (Emily Blunt) are trying to make their garden more comfortable and beautiful for their friends and family. However, disaster strikes when all the gnomes in the garden are kidnapped by a pie mascot doll named Moriarty (Jamie Demetriou) and it's up to them Sherlock Gnomes (Johnny Depp) and his assistant Dr. Watson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) to find them. That's all there is to it with this plot. It's absolutely nothing new.The story is incredibly boring and dull due to how predictable it is. It goes through every twist and turn imaginable and even led to one of the dumbest plot twists that I've seen in an animated movie in a while. None of the jokes work as well. Although most of the bottom of the barrel jokes seen in the trailer were thankfully not seen in this movie, it's still incredibly unfunny with most being jokes about the characters being garden gnomes. It even opens up with three gnomes arguing over what story to tell using garden gnome puns like "Game of Gnomes" and "Spider-Man: Gnomecoming". I'm not making this up. The animation is totally wasted on this movie. The films computer animation incredibly dull and lifeless and barely has any shiny features to it yet the very few hand drawn portions are incredibly well done though it did make me mad that it went into this movie. Why of all movies coming out nowadays was a hand drawn animated scene put into "Sherlock Gnomes"? I mean, seriously! However, the film could have been saved if the characters were interesting and likable, but they're not. Gnomeo and Juliet are dry and tiresome, Sherlock Gnomes is incredibly annoying as is Moriarty. I guess Dr. Watson has a little likability in him, but not much."Sherlock Gnomes" is incredibly pointless and pretty boring for an animated movie sequel. It's story is predictable and lousy, it's animation is totally wasted and the characters are all dry and tiresome. I really don't know why this movie was made and I really don't suggest you should watch this movie. Besides, most of the cast of this movie (some of which are Oscar winners or nominees) have been in better animated movies, the director of this movie also made "Kung Fu Panda", and there's a much better animated parody of Sherlock Holmes known as "The Great Mouse Detective" which was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios and those are much better animated movies to watch than this mess. Check them out instead. It's rather elementary, my dear readers.

bettycjung 6/15/18. This was a cute and decent enjoyable animated movie. I think they did a good job of animating what would be considered garden ornaments with some hidden references to that. Like going completely still when a human walks by. I just can't get over how nicely done the animation was. The story was okay. Kids will probably enjoy it.