Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
- Network: WB
- Genre: Kids' Animation
Common Sense Media says
Sherlock Holmes battles crime in the future.
- Network: WB
- Genre: Kids' Animation
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Parents need to know that the show contains some low-key violence (a few guns but little shooting).
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What's the story?
Sherlock Holmes has been brought back to life in the 22nd century to track down a clone of his old nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Coping admirably with a high-tech world, he solves crimes with all his old skill and flair, helped out by a new gang of Baker Street Irregulars (now street-smart punks and hackers rather than London urchins) and an updated Watson (actually a robot programmed with Watson's knowledge and personality). Inspector Lestrade is back too, now a tough female police officer who calls Holmes in for help on her difficult cases (like a \"vampire\" who sucks data out of computers) but has trouble handling his independent methods.
Is it any good?
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This odd show is a combination of high-tech computer wizardry and Sherlock's trademark methods of observation, logical analysis, and elaborate explanations of the mystery at the end. Despite the potential for some interesting effects when combining a Victorian detective with a cyberpunk setting, the show mostly relies on clichés, both Holmesian and sci-fi, and has little new to offer. But the mysteries are intriguing enough to catch a viewer's attention, and it's fun to watch Holmes explain it all at the end with his customary panache. Not wildly exciting or dreadfully dull, this is entertaining enough to fill up a half-hour but nothing to write home (or Holmes?) about.
Families can talk about...
Families can talk about the appeal of classic detective stories like Arthur Conan Doyle's, and discuss what's distinctive about Sherlock Holmes and his trademark methods of observation and analysis.
TV details
| Cast: | Akiko Morison, Jason Gray-Stanford, John Payne |
| Network: | WB |
| Genre: | Kids' Animation |
| Topics: | Magic and fantasy, Book characters, Robots |
| TV rating: | TV-Y7 |
| Available on: | DVD |
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Sherlock is OK in the 22nd century
I decided to start watching this series on the Qubo channel which I hardly EVER watch anymore, because there was nothing on tv, and I got mixed results. While it looks cool, most of the characters are one-dimensional and we just have to rely on the old story to learn about them. Sherlock, Watson, and Beth are the main characters and though they are pretty cool, they don't have personalites. The villian is Moriarty who is just there, because he was in the old story and I don't know why the c*p he was brought back. The stories are just, again, from the old story, and the animation is a bizzare mixture of 3-D and 2-D. Overal, Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century is a good show to watch when there's nothing on TV and it'll be awesome, but after a while you'll just forget about and I think it just gets lost in the mass of short-lived, cancled toons.
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