This looks really bad & really stupid & just a cash cow to get kids to the cinema, with there parents to spend a fortune on sweets popcorn & drink. But hay whos judging… oh yea i am. But i get to see this for free, & it will make my Tuesday night go a little quicker so hey why not. Go in with high expectation girl it cant be that bad.

So a Tuesday after work on a two for Tuesday/Wednesday should always bring people out to see a film right… nah. There were 5 other people in the cinema with me FIVE!!! Think that sums up the attitude towards this film before you even get there. Not good.

Trailers we had kids films obviously, so there was show dogs which looks really bad poor Will Artnet im guessing its paying for his divorce i guess. Looks bad. The there was a weird one to do with super heroes who aren’t the avenger or DC but something odd but was just meh. Then we had the Incredibles 2 which obviously looks amazing, duh its the incredibles. I love you Edna. But the trailer that really grabbed my attention is that the avengers are in Disney Land Paris this summer & you can meet them omg captain america is going to be there (obviously its not Chris Evans but you get me) Still sign me up. Out of my way kids.

& then the film started… It was bad & thats giving it praise. 

I’ll go through the good bits shall i. How about a glittery Elton John Gnome on a Piano dressed in Pink. Elton John Music that was good. & the three little high pitched Gnomes at the start, who wanted to do Game of Gnomes instead Sherlock Gnomes (that would have been more fun actually) & then at the end they do a dance on tower bridge & get upset they dont get to do their finally. Thats it thats all the good bits you dont need to see the film now save your time people.

I know i normally do my home work with other films where i want to watch the next one in the list. This one i felt that i didnt actually need to. We had gone from Romeo & Juliette to Sherlock Gnomes i dont need to pick up on all the back story. & im not very grateful i didnt have to sit through the last one as well. I would have probably headed into this with more dread.

I cant even see how kids would like this. The jokes were just not funny on any level. No smirks here at all. Not even when they went to Sherlock’s mind palace, which would have just gone over any child’s head entirely. There werent many jokes for parents either to make there time worth while.

Stephen Merchant was wasted as a lovie, so was Matt Lucas as the shy but mad Gnome. I know if Elton Johns production company goes to you do you want to be a voice in our Gnome film but with two such iconic voices which should work for animation, both just felt lost in the melay.

Gargoyles i guess where okay but they were only in it for all of 2 minutes shame.

& that all im going to say of the subject of the film. It was Just bad & i dont want to waste anymore time on it. I feel sorry for any parents who took there kids or kids that didnt want to really see it who went with the rest of their family who did. Come on the Incredibles please save animation please.

Side Note…

All of the above aside, this film has actually got me to my greatest moment in film. More so that collecting my 4 avengers posters. I got home on friday after work to have mama popcorn going were you on the radio earlier. Say what… no. My Aunty & Uncle had been driving somewhere listening to the gods of film review Mark Kermode & Simon Mayo (hes one of our own) on 5 live & they read out my mini facebook review about Sherlock Gnomes & they just happened to be listening to that moment & went hang on how many people have your name.

So i then spent the next 30 minutes trying to find it on my slowly downloading podcast & iplayer & eventually found it & yes it was me. Life goal complete. I can retire now… im not going too. So if you want to hear my shout out on the radio its was 5 live at 2pm on friday & its at 26 minutes in. Its only about 15 seconds long but yay. Happy Days so cheers Sherlock Gnomes for that. Does mean i will now think fondly of this film for all the right reasons.