I greatly enjoyed the first Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes, but the sequel fridges Irene Adler right off the bat, and casting Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes is one of those things that ought to have worked, but which collapses under a lot of heavy-handed comedy.
Their Moriarty, however, is a not-bad variant on the usual portrayal – rather than being an obscure genius known only among mathematicians and astronomers, this Moriarty hides in plain sight as a famous intellectual who gives popular math lectures and is friends with the Prince of Wales – Harris plays him as sort of a cross between George Bernard Shaw and Neil deGrasse Tyson. It does somewhat lesson his motivation for being a supervillain when he’s already famous and admired, though; and his ultimate scheme, though evil, is pretty banal (and was already used in the movie of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.)
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Their Moriarty, however, is a not-bad variant on the usual portrayal – rather than being an obscure genius known only among mathematicians and astronomers, this Moriarty hides in plain sight as a famous intellectual who gives popular math lectures and is friends with the Prince of Wales – Harris plays him as sort of a cross between George Bernard Shaw and Neil deGrasse Tyson. It does somewhat lesson his motivation for being a supervillain when he’s already famous and admired, though; and his ultimate scheme, though evil, is pretty banal (and was already used in the movie of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.)