The Hound of the Baskervilles

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

I bought this on CD. Big mistake. I should have looked it up on IMDb first. I figured I'd add to my "Holmes" collection. This has nothing to do with Holmes. It has nothing to do with "British humor" either - I think some of Cleese is hilarious and I own everything Sellers has ever done. This is just a pure-and-simple complete waste of time. It's not funny. Whoever was in charge of casting must have been throwing darts at a board loaded with the photos of wannabe comedians. My God! Who is that thing cast as Sir Henry Baskerville? It's not well-acted. The plot is ridiculous. The dialogue is childish and in many cases reeks of non-sequitur. And Sherlock Holmes's MOTHER?!?!?!? Puh-leeze. I've walked out of three movies in my life - the musical version of Lost Horizon, Paint Your Wagon (a MUSICAL starring Lee Marvin, believe it or not), and this thing.

I'm amazed that most of the people who saw this film, thought it was terrible, i have to say, that this was the first film i ever saw of Cook & Moore, and i enjoyed it thoroughly, i know little about direction and all the technical sides to a film, but i know what makes me laugh, and this certainly did.... The scene where Holmes has a massage, Max Wall & Roy Kinner flashing, the classic one leg joke, and Moore playing Holmes's psychic mother, who call's Shelock 'Shirl' How can people take a film so silly so serious. This film turned me into a Cook & Moore fan, it cant be that bad... Watch without prejudice!!

A misguided attempt to present a comic parody of the Conan Doyle tale, with Peter Cook as Sherlock Holmes and Dudley Moore as Dr Watson. Moore also plays Holmes' mother (!) and in this guise, is possibly the best thing in the film. Otherwise there is a spoof of the spinning head in The Exorcist, Denholm Elliot and a constantly urinating dog, and lame excuses for ‘jokes' and ‘funny situations' which really – aren't. Although it has one or two moments which provoke a smile, the original source material isn't such that it survives being tweaked to this extent. Perhaps not the point, but the rest of the inspiration for this turkey must have been written on the back of a postage stamp. Skip this and watch Bedazzled and Not Only … But Also instead.