After a string of garden
gnome disappearances in London,
Gnomeo & Juliet look to legendary detective Sherlock Gnomes to solve the
case of their missing friends and family.
Director: John Stevenson
Cast: James McAvoy, Emily
Blunt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mary J. Blige, Johnny Depp
Rated PG for some rude
and suggestive humor.
Genres: Animation,
Adventure, Comedy
Runtime: 1h 26min
Review:
Sherlock Gnomes is a fun
and lighthearted sequel that works more than it doesn’t even though it doesn’t
deliver a ton of surprises. Going
through the basic of Sherlock Holmes mythology in gnome form plays out in a fun
family friendly manner. Johnny Depp
provides the voice for Sherlock Gnomes and gives him a fun self centered
narcissistic voice. Depp and Emily Blunt
spend the better part of the film together and they have some fun
chemistry. McAvoy spends the better part
of the film on a separate storyline which means that he and Blunt don’t have a
lot of interplay which was the highlight of the original but it’s all in
service of the story. The film has a
solid message of not taking loved ones for granted which is a bit more
thoughtful than it really needed to be for this type of family film which is
refreshing.
B
