iTunes Exclusive Episode Sherlock Gnomes

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Welcome.
My name is Rob, I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast, and it's well documented
on this show that I've grown up as a fan of detective stories and things of its ilk.
But I'm not alone for this particular episode, because I rarely ever am.
Joining me across the desk I see does from time to time is the official fact checker of
this show, and a man that would have garden gnomes, even though he doesn't have a garden,
because he has great interior decorating skills.
You may know him as Fondango, but as Mama name him Don Ford, I'm going to call him Don Ford.
Welcome, sir.
All but one.
The one-chain, a garden gnomes.
Oh, how do you not have the one-chain a garden gnomes?
I would never have-
Somebody got to protect the other garden gnomes?
Whenever we do one of these things, it is to review something, and this episode is no exception.
We're getting all animated on you today, because we're going to review a film by
veteran to the animation industry.
His name is John Stevenson.
He hasn't directed a lot, but he's been in animation since back in the Muppet Show days.
It's called Sherlock Gnomes.
For what, sir?
This whole thing?
Yes, sir.
We got to thank Ashley and everybody at Levinson, our new friends with the show.
We want to thank them for the insight.
We're so happy that they're hanging out with us and letting us see movies before they
come out, so that we can review them for the Empire and help the Empire make the best
decisions they can with their entertainment dollars.
So again, we want to thank everybody for the invite, and great people, Levinson.
Nice, nice, nice festival.
Huge fans of those guys.
So as you might under-
I've picked up by now, this is a play on words.
This is the sequel to Nomeo and Juliet, which came out a few years ago.
I don't think I saw it.
I did not see the first one either.
But you get the feeling that you really don't have to worry about that to see this one.
I mean, it takes place as the owners of the Nomeo and Juliet characters in clan.
Yep.
And their friends are all moving into a new neighborhood in London, out of the country,
they're in this city now, and probably not in this spatial of a garden as they used
to be in, but you know, changes change in an inner and a big city now, look at life,
everything.
To move to London in a time where garden gnomes are disappearing on an alarming rate,
and it's up to the protector of London's garden gnomes in Sherlock gnomes and his friend,
Dr. Watson, we couldn't do something with his name.
I know.
Just saying, to kind of figure it out, find out what's going on.
Because he thinks this may be his arch nemesis Moriarty, who also doesn't get a play on his
name, may have come back.
He thought he had gotten rid of him, but he may be back.
And so he thinks Moriarty's back out for final revenge.
This voice cast, let me just roll you through this.
Mary J. Blige, Emily Blunt, Michael Kein, the size of a tender rain.
Johnny Depp, Chua Teo, Edge of Four, James Hong, Ashley Jensen, Matt Lucas, James McAvoy,
Steven Merchant, Ozzy Osborne, yes, that Ozzy Osborne, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters,
Dexter Fletcher, this is the jam packed full of great talent.
And going into this, I was kind of like, man, I don't know about this because I'm a big
fan of Sherlock Holmes.
What was your feeling going into this?
Well, same kind of thing is this just going to be some kind of cartoon to try to make
a few bucks, that kind of thing.
And I didn't see the first one.
I'm first just, you know, let the empire know that I never saw the first one.
So my expectations were, man, this is going to be what's going to be.
The cartoon comes out, you have some people, some jobs at the studios, you know, making
a few bucks.
It's not going to break the black Panther record, but still it's, you know, just to keep
the people happy out there and something for the kids and the family.
I was surprised.
I was too.
And Johnny Depp, come on.
Yeah, I didn't know it.
It's him until the very end.
Johnny Depp is the title character.
Sherlock Noem.
This runs about an hour twenty one.
I thought it was pace really well.
Watch the age was thirty five minutes.
So over a third of the way through, well, that's out there.
Yeah.
It's only about 90 minutes.
So it's not like it's not an hour twenty one.
So I liked it from a pacing standpoint.
It definitely exceeded my expectations for it for sure.
I mean, the voice cast, that, that much all start together.
I mean, you, you put a certain level of expectation on that, but they tell the story really
well.
It is rated PG because there are definitely some story lines in there that get a little
grown up.
But some of the kids may not catch it, but still good for the entire.
Oh, absolutely.
So a great family film.
Yeah.
This film, the only way I can put it is this film is a lot of fun.
It's fun.
Yeah.
Like, it tells its story.
It never bogs itself down.
Having this firmly planted in cheek for a chunk of this, it's been seven years since
the first one.
Can you believe that?
Okay.
But being a fan and reading a lot of detective novels and stories, since I was a kid, you
know, we talked recently in another episode about how if it was encyclopedia brown, I've
read it.
Yeah.
Hardy boys.
I've read it.
Nancy Drew.
I've read it.
I mean, that's always been a lot of time as a kid is because learning that power of observation
has always fascinated me.
So by reading a lot of these books, it's helped me learn how to use context clues to help
figure things out.
It helps you learn how to read people.
It helps you to things like trivia because you learn how to look for context clues.
And for fans of the Sherlock Holmes films, and I don't want to give away too much, but
there's a lot of nice little nods to the source material.
If you're a fan of Sherlock Holmes.
And if you're not, it's not like you'll feel like, oh, I'm missing out on something.
It's just little subtle things, and I'll give you an example.
There's a scene where Sherlock Holmes and Juliet are going to see Mary J. Blige's character.
And her name is Irene.
And as they're going up to knock on the door, the great is listed as 221B.
Sherlock Holmes's address is 221B Baker Street.
Yeah.
There's a lot of things like that.
I was like, oh, I see what you did there.
That's kind of cute.
Yeah.
But this, like I said, this movie exceeded my expectations.
I really, really, really enjoyed this film.
I didn't really check much up into it because I wasn't really expected much, and I didn't
want to dive deep into it.
But we're at the end of this.
We're sitting through the credits, and I'm going, well, this person was in it.
Well, that person was in it.
That person was in it.
It's like, how did they get such a cast?
For a film is surprising.
That's not going to be a big, this is going to be the big monster hit film, or the big
monster hit cartoon of the year.
Well, the first one had a certain modicum of popularity to it.
So a lot of these characters have come back.
I think the only really new characters are the one specific to this story.
But I mean, I'm not going to lie.
There's moments where I giggled out loud.
You were sitting right next to me, and you know, this is just something that it's, it's
just a fun movie to go see with the family.
Well, I liked about it was, you know, the plot's good.
But one thing I really liked was this clinking sound they did throughout the film of.
Because they're amazing.
They're known.
And how they have, it's not where it got bugged me.
But something I noticed, which I thought was cool, was how every time they moved, it's
kind of like when you have a coffee cup on the, on the player or ceramic, when you have
like planners together, put them together and stuff like that, and you kind of get that
sound of ceramic and on ceramic.
And I was all the way through the film, but suddenly, but not too loud, where just just
enough where it added, it kind of kept you in the pocket of, yeah, these are what these
are made of.
I also noticed, I think there's an actual mix of live action and CGI to this.
Because there are sure places where you see people walking in the background and it's
way too fluid to not be CGI, which I respected that.
I was thinking the CGI is incredible.
I'm the first to see it.
Oh, yeah, that's great.
We saw it in 3D too.
I thought the 3D looked great.
Well, yeah.
I don't think the 3D would be worth the extra cost though, but it was so nice to see it.
Yeah, it was.
Oh, don't get it.
We're not complaining.
No, no.
It's quite, but one of the things is we like to say is that worth the extra cost.
I don't think it is.
I can see much where a lot of times during a 3D film, I will take the glasses off for
a second.
So I kind of kind of remember that it's in 3D and kind of see the difference of a, of
a playing 2D versus 3D.
And there wasn't very many scenes where I thought the 3D would really enhance it.
So I don't know if it's really worth it, but visually beautiful, beautiful.
And I think the animation was all animation through it.
If you think it might be live action, I don't know because the animation nowadays that
they're going into closer, but there was a couple of spots on like that's way too fluid
to not be.
But there was an animation for sure, I don't look real life.
I was so I was really surprised in that.
And if you're a fan of Elton John, he's an executive producer.
So there's a lot of his music in there, a couple of interesting choices, especially
in a dog chasing scene, the song that they play kind of made me go, I'm going to see
what you did there.
But I'm a big fan of Elton John and it, and there's one thing we're saying, who's
that guy?
And you know, if you could reference Elton John, it was just that no one was missing.
But one thing I know is, who, who nobody knows it, yes, they did do that.
Oh, they got that.
I was like, yep, yep, there you go, right there.
Don't go breaking my heart, but that's what opens the film.
And it's a nice, and there's some covers in there of other people doing his material
too, which is great.
One thing I noticed, there were a lot of kids at the screening.
They were interested in it.
Yes, they were, brother.
What's that thing?
That thing fired up, boy, they were focused.
And so I think the plot is still going to be good for the entire family because adults
will still enjoy this because there are some things that the adults will get that the
kids won't, which they think they'll enjoy.
The plot's not too complicated for the kids.
Of course, for a five year old, they can't keep, there's a lot of fighters who can't
keep that great attention span, but still for the eight, nine, ten year olds, the plot's
not too complicated.
It's great, but then let's keep the parents in joy.
Yeah, it really is.
It's a family film.
Some of it gets a little, I don't even know how to say it.
I don't want to use the word racy, but there's definitely some adult humor in this that is
not too overt, but the astute eye can catch it.
But it doesn't take away from it.
It's still great.
Yeah, I'm just curious how we had a nice, another appearance by a famous animal feline,
100 of the battle cap made by me.
Yeah, you know what, there was a couple spots for the boys, I was like, you know, I looked
at you, I thought you were going to say any figures.
You were laughing on that.
I'm thinking, yep, 100 of the battles.
And another one of my favorites, James Hong, is in that scene as well, which there's
a scene where they go to an Emporium and it's very, very funny.
There's a lot of great humor in this mixed in with great story.
I, you know, again, this movie exceeded my expectations for it, and I really, really
enjoyed it.
And now I'm interested.
I might want to see.
I'm going to go back and watch the first one.
You know what?
I can't say I'm going to debate you on that.
Yeah.
So kind of mean, you don't have to see the first one to enjoy the second one, which I really
like to.
And you put Steven Merchant just about anything.
You know, I'm going to be interested because you know, I'm a huge fan of that dude.
There have been some franchises where if you missed the first one, it may not hurt you
to watch the second one if you haven't seen the first.
This didn't happen.
Not at all.
Yeah.
Okay.
Anything else for today before we get to the final analysis?
No, I think we're good.
The way we do the final analysis on this show, we're not going to give you a thumbs up,
thumbs down.
We're not going to give you numbers, letter grades, garden gnomes, anything like that.
We're going to ask up to two questions.
Question number one is, would we see this film again?
If the answer's no, then we're done here.
But if the answer's yes, the follow up question becomes, how far are we willing to go to
see it?
From the best of the best to the worst of the best, here is our spectrum.
Full price at the theater, down to a twilight showing, down to a matinee, down to first early
morning on a weekend, down to second run at the dollar theater, down to leaving your house
to go get it from red box or down to streaming on Netflix or down to waiting for it on cable.
Don, would you see this film again?
Yeah, what?
How far are you willing to go to do it?
In afternoon to a twilight, somewhere in there, take the family, have a fun Saturday
afternoon with this, enjoy it.
I am right there with you.
I would see this again, probably in a matinee show, so you can go in the middle of the day.
Maybe it's raining outside on the weekend or maybe it's, you know, with the holiday coming
up.
Because, you know, part of the reason it's released now is part of one of the plot points
is the first day of spring, and this comes out three days after the first day of spring,
so it's a very timely release on this.
And right before the Easter holiday spring break, yeah, go check this movie out.
John Stevenson directs Sherlock Nomes for again, for this whole thing.
Yes, sir.
Got to thank Ashley and everybody at Levinson for the invite.
Thank you guys so much.
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