SHERLOCK GNOMES
Watchable. Targeted at children from the age of 6 but: with lines like the derogatory sounding "you're acting like a 3-year-old", with lots of extra scenes inserted in the main plot and with weird animation. It also introduces children to London and Sherlock Holmes at an early age. The city looks delighful - like the real one enhanced with vivid colours. The characters look like china dolls but in the inserted scenes some are rag toys and Sherlock Gnomes' thoughts are geometric and black and white. Most dialogues sound forced with an odd witty line, e.g. "The police said they knew nothing about missing gnomes, asked not to call again and changed their phone number" and an occasional clever one, e.g. "A guy won't make you stronger." "A supportive one will." There's 80s music aplenty, with nearly all songs co-written by Elton John who... has produced the cartoon feature. There's a post credit but it's stupid and not worth waiting for. In Poland lousy translation of the dialogues and the title, together with dubbing - in the original by famous actors sounding like they should in a children's tale, in Polish by nobodies with wrong voices and chavish intonation - ruin the movie.
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