Since we bought this movie six years ago, this is our all-time favorite "enjoy-don't-think-film".
The story is about a 10 year old boy, Billy, who, after his parents divorced, is going to live with his dad on "catalina island", a small island where apparently, everyone drives around in golf carts. His father, who is a hopeless clumsy muddlehead, hopes to earn a living by inventing all kinds of weird stuff... such as a 'learn-to-swim-turtle', electric cooking and a basketball phone (seriously, what the...) and then he and billy happen to find an injured dog, that can talk, but for some reason only speaks to kids, which results in embarrassing situations for Billy..
The plot is quite simple and predictable, the acting is.. well,less than solid, and the special effects are almost too horrible to be true. BUT I think what makes this movie so entertaining ARE the flaws! Some situations are so surrealistic that it gets hilarious. For example, in one scene, an elderly woman has clearly just bought an 'extendable' dog leash for her dog. As she keeps pulling more and more of the leash out of the holder, her dog starts running in circles around her and a police officer, who is talking to her. They then are both forced to keep going in circles, as the leash is unwinding(which is a bit strange, for a dog of corgi size) and even after the officer frees himself he keeps turning and turning until he falls to the ground.
To state that Sherlock Bones is a good movie would be wrong, however from me it certainly receives a 4 out of then, for its (probably not deliberate) hilarious scenes.
The story is about a 10 year old boy, Billy, who, after his parents divorced, is going to live with his dad on "catalina island", a small island where apparently, everyone drives around in golf carts. His father, who is a hopeless clumsy muddlehead, hopes to earn a living by inventing all kinds of weird stuff... such as a 'learn-to-swim-turtle', electric cooking and a basketball phone (seriously, what the...) and then he and billy happen to find an injured dog, that can talk, but for some reason only speaks to kids, which results in embarrassing situations for Billy..
The plot is quite simple and predictable, the acting is.. well,less than solid, and the special effects are almost too horrible to be true. BUT I think what makes this movie so entertaining ARE the flaws! Some situations are so surrealistic that it gets hilarious. For example, in one scene, an elderly woman has clearly just bought an 'extendable' dog leash for her dog. As she keeps pulling more and more of the leash out of the holder, her dog starts running in circles around her and a police officer, who is talking to her. They then are both forced to keep going in circles, as the leash is unwinding(which is a bit strange, for a dog of corgi size) and even after the officer frees himself he keeps turning and turning until he falls to the ground.
To state that Sherlock Bones is a good movie would be wrong, however from me it certainly receives a 4 out of then, for its (probably not deliberate) hilarious scenes.