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Nov 3, 2022 · Powered by JustWatch. Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown ), the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes ( Henry Cavill ), returns in this cheeky, breezy sequel that's better than the original. The character has a better sense of who she is, and the movie spends less time explaining, and more time on action. The mystery at its center is inspired by a ...
Oct 28, 2022 · 93% Tomatometer 105 Reviews 79% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Fresh off the triumph of solving her first case, Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) follows in the footsteps of her famous brother...
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Nov 2, 2022 · Enola Holmes is back, and she’s ready for both her first official case as a detective and, work schedule permitting, some romance. Millie Bobby Brown delivers an understated, playful...
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Enola Holmes 2 Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Pallavi Keswani The Hindu. A remarkable sequel that gives the audience a lively Holmes to cheer for. Full...
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By Kat Bailey
Posted: Nov 4, 2022 2:00 pm
Enola Holmes 2 is now streaming on Netflix.
I was charmed by the first Enola Holmes movie. Based on a series of YA novels first published in 2007, the original was a sweet reimagining of the classic Sherlock Holmes canon, with Millie Bobby Brown turning in a charismatic performance as the eponymous moppet with a genius-level intellect. That lively energy, however, is missing from the sequel, which retains many of the trappings of the first film, but is more concerned with laying the groundwork for a franchise than spinning a coherent mystery.
The sequel once again casts Brown as Enola, younger sister to Sherlock, now the proprietor of her very own detective agency. This being Victorian England, she is swiftly dismissed by customers who would much work with her more famous brother (Henry Cavill). But when a young girl (a precocious Serrana Su-Ling Bliss) appears to ask for help finding her adopted older sister, Enola Holmes looks into the camera to inform us that the game is once again afoot.
The ensuing story features concurrent mysteries, themes of feminism, a real-life working class revolt, a love story, and multiple additions from the Holmes canon. At a bit more than two hours, all of these plot threads leave the sequel feeling overstuffed, with the actual detective work too often being resolved through improbable leaps in logic and action sequences. It has the look and feel of a traditional Sherlock story, but little of the substance.
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As with the original, Enola Holmes 2’s strong moments come when it focuses on the exploits of Brown’s titular heroine. Brown retains Enola’s infectious charisma for the sequel, frequently addressing the camera with witty fourth-wall-breaking comments on her predicament (though those little asides, and the little animated bits that accompany them, slowly disappear as the movie progresses). She’s especially fun when she teams with her mother – bomb-throwing suffragette Eudoria Holmes (Helena Bonham Carter) – who deserves far more screentime than she ultimately gets.
If it does happen, I only hope it takes more after the original than its sequel. At its best, Enola Holmes can be a lovely mother-daughter movie – a fresh take on the Holmes canon with a strong social consciousness and a cast full of intelligent and charismatic women. Hopefully whatever follow-up Netflix has planned is able to live up to that poten...
Enola Holmes 2 mostly fails to recapture the charm of the original movie, teaming Millie Bobby Brown with Henry Cavill in an expanded role for Sherlock. What should be a high-spirited family film instead feels leaden and overstuffed, more concerned with laying the groundwork for a hypothetical sequel than spinning a quality mystery. The result has ...
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Enola Holmes 2 tries to build on the success of the original with an expanded role for Henry Cavill and others, but its surplus of plot threads winds up weighing it down.
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Nov 3, 2022 · “Enola Holmes 2” contains a considerable amount of action – a bit too much, frankly, given the more cerebral aspects of the character. The film fares better when Enola is using her wits, not...
Oct 28, 2022 · Enola Holmes 2 has all the fun and charm a family-friendly action movie needs. The sequel doesn’t do all that much new, but it’s a solid take on a dying breed of film. By Andrew Webster, an...
