In my wildest dreams, I never imagined I would see a big screen team up between Bill Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. After a bit of toing and froing, Gnomeo and Juliet join Homes and Watson on their crime fighting adventure, trotting across some of London’s most famous landmarks like the capital’s sewerage system, Chinatown tat shop, and Clapham Common. Watson ( Chiwetel Ejiofor) rock up at the scene of the crime – hot on the heels of the thief, who leaves a calling card initialed with an “M” and a cryptic clue at every daring back-garden robbery. The game is afoot, and rather conveniently Sherlock Gnomes ( Johnny Depp) and Dr. And worse still, amid the chaos, a mysterious thief ransacks the back-garden and steals all of their terracotta mates. Quickly, the cracks begin to appear in Gnomeo and Juliet’s relationship, prompting Gnomeo to steal a rare orchid to win back his beloved’s affections. We catch up with the green-fingered couple, and their garden chums, as they find themselves relocated to a new and frankly impossibly-sized garden in the suburbs of central London. And I must give a big shout out to the evergreen James Wong, playing a salt and pepper shaker, totally worth the admission price alone for me. It’s fair to say most of the cast do their comedy shtick without blinking, bouncing off each other with energy, even if it’s a little forced at times. Gnomeo ( James McAvoy, doing an odd mockney accent) and Juliet ( Emily Blunt, English as Wedgwood pottery), and a football team’s worth of British film legends and comedy actors – ( Sir Micheal Caine, Dame Maggie Smith, Matt Lucas, Ashley Jensen, and many more) – voice the garish ornaments.
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Oh, what would the Swan of Avon say? But it was memorable enough (cough, profitable more like it) for Sir Elton John and David Furnish’s Rocket Pictures to crack open the Apple contacts again and get the band back together for a silly, gag-laden, back-garden mashup, riffing from the literary works of detective Sherlock Homes. And Mankini, a garden gnome who’s all about tanning his bum cheeks. Well, I’ll admit it passed me by, the Bard’s classic tale of two ill-fated lovers from warring households – reimagined as a back-garden family adventure between bickering red and blue ornamental figurines. A casual question, uttered by a fellow film critic, as we waited in line at the Sherlock Gnomes (2018) Family Gala held at the newly refurbished Empire cinema in London’s Leicester Square.
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