Fahckin elementary dear Watson...

I'm not sure about all you other folk out there but I for one am a Sherlock Holmes fan. However in many television adaptations and films that have found their way to the small and large screens I always felt a little short changed. The deer-stalker hat for example was a visual device created purely for the films and the (less controversial) pipe replaced the super sleuths drug addiction. So my bag of emotions is mixed to say the least when I caught wind (no laughing at the back) of the new Guy Ritchie project based around the idea of Baker Streets finest. Don't get me wrong Ritchie's earlier efforts were good old fashioned cockney romps which I enjoyed greatly but to say that he had a lull is a massive understatement. Also is he really the man for the job? His fast edits and heavy graphics don't really lend themselves to Victorian London...do they?

On the other and much shinier side of the coin we have our two leading men. Robert Downey Jr, who lets face it has a touch of Midas about him with recent projects, will pick up the role of Holmes whilst Jude Law will play Watson. Rumor has it that the story will stay faithful to the Holmes universe, so much so that Watson will be less a bumbling fool and more of an equal to Holmes seeing as in the books at least he was a doctor and army veteran. Also we will finally get a glimpse of the fictional but impressive sounding "BARITSU" the martial art that Holmes is an expert in.
Yet we turn the coin once more to the dull rusty side that probably has a picture of Ritchie dressed as the queen to discover that the film will carry a "PG-13" rating and there will be no mention of our hero's drug addiction.
They give with one hand and take with the other. Still I'm sure Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will be ricocheting off of his coffin lid when the Will Ferrell comedy version is released...I kid you not.