So the women in the two men’s lives - Mary and Holmes’ wily inamorata Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams) - are quickly and rudely dispatched from A Game of Shadows. But the given of a Sherlock Holmes story is that the detective must have his faithful chronicler otherwise, to the public, Holmes wouldn’t exist.
If this were a romantic comedy, Watson and Mary would be a loving couple harassed by a deranged outsider. So in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Guy Ritchie’s frenzied-with-benefits sequel to his 2009 hit, it’s only natural that Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) should not only attempt to forestall the wedding of his dear Watson (Jude Law) but, given the chance, toss the good doctor’s bride Mary (Kelly Reilly) out of a train as it speeds across a high bridge. (READ: Which Holmes story was recently banned for anti-Mormon tendencies) Watson was Dean Martin to Holmes’ Jerry Lewis, Crosby to his Hope, Felix to his Oscar - any duo that was both mismatched and inseparable. Homes would say, “Go,” and Watson, “Whoa!” Introducing the pair in 1887, Conan Doyle devised a formula that was replayed in dozens of good-cop/mad-cop movies ( Lethal Weapon, 48 Hrs., Die Hard With a Vengeance) and also defined the relationship of most comedy teams. Indeed, Watson was the audience’s surrogate, the “normal” one, who would filter, explain and occasionally apologize for the exploits of his more gifted and eccentric pal. Friend and foil, colleague and biographer, Watson marveled at Holmes’ powers of deduction no less than the reader did. Holmes was the superman - a hero above and apart, keen of intellect, able to deduce grand schemes from minute evidence - and Dr. He invented one of the world’s most famous characters, pioneered the modern detective tale and, in a way, created the buddy movie. Follow Conan Doyle achieved quite the hat trick in his four novellas and 56 short stories about Sherlock Holmes.
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