i love this dopey, crazy, dawg flick. it's so silly and irreverent it sends me into stitches of laughter every time. i agree with the reviewer who said it was ridiculous to be so hard on a movie that is this silly.even though it's very silly, it's not without some smarts. i mean come on, it had a screenplay written by Dudley Moore and the brilliant Peter Cook, who also give hilarious comic performances as Watson and Holmes. it was also directed by the controversial Andy Warhol chum Paul Morrissey who directed those nasty, perverted, but really off the wall Dracula and Frankenstein flicks. every time Morrissey's involved it's going to be one bumpy, giddy, ride.i guess for some light weights the humour here is a little hard to take. for one thing the humour can be sooo dry and oh sooo British. for another the humour can be pretty freaky and often super gross out. i love the weirdo conga line on the moors which feels like Bergman's 'Seventh Seal' on a psycho, acid trip gone amuck. and the scene where Holmes visits a icky Victorian massage parlor and gives them Watson's name instead of his own. and i loved it when Dudley Moore dressed in drag as Holmes's mother tells Holmes, "i remember when you were a little girl", to where Holmes replies, "mother, i was NEVER a little girl". the one legged Mr.Spiggott character was also a scream.Kenneth Williams is also hilarious portraying Henry Baskerville as a effeminate homosexual. i love it when Baskerville is insulted and he screams indignantly, "OH!HOW MEAN!".i thought the Chihauhau humour was a little too gross to watch at times, and for anyone who has seen this movie, of course those ain't Chihuahua's. don't know why they didn't use real Chihuahua's. guess Chihuahua's are scarce in England where it was filmed or something, dunt know.this is brilliant, dry, British, humour at it's best. and if you are a fan of Morrissey (i reluctantly am), or just a fan of Dudley and the brilliant Cook, than definitely check this psycho weird trip, out.

Normally I don't rate movies that I've only watched 15 minutes of, but I'm going to make an exception for this one, because it begins so remarkably badly that it is almost unimaginable that it could redeem itself. Written by and starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, who have done many wonderful things, this is such a total misfire that one can only stare in disbelief. The beginning feels very much like a bad burlesque sketch. The "humor" is very broad, with Dudley putting on a moronic accent and Cook playing Holmes with seemingly no clear idea of what his character is or how he wants to approach him. I'm just utterly perplexed that this movie was made, and feel everyone involved should hang their heads in shame.

Geeze, that last post was a bit harsh. I found this movie funny when I first saw it soon after release, and when I recently watched it with my three young daughters. I thought the pee pee scene was hilarious, and I enjoyed the homages to Moore's and Cook's other works. It's just fun. It's SUPPOSED to be just fun; not deep, not a cinema-graphic classic, but fun. If my kids can enjoy it now, 25+ years later, It can't be that bad,and it isn't. Find it, watch it with a drink or two in your gullet, and enjoy! Not everything has to be a great work of art, you know. We all need to stop being so pretentious with these critiques. You can enjoy Spartacus AND Evil Dead, The Maltese Falcon AND Ice Pirates, You can enjoy this movie too.

A wonderful cast are here involved in what must be the lowest point in all their careers.For some reason Dudley Moore plays Dr.Watson as a high voiced Welshman,and Peter Cook gives Holmes a "stage Jewish" accent!Made up of series of draggy sketches,everything but the kitchen sink gets thrown into the pot-including "The Exorcist" and Pete and Dud's "one leg short" sketch;the result is an incoherent mess.Most potentially amusing moments are killed dead by the sloppy approach of Paul Morrissey's direction.No attempt is made to capture the mystery of the original story, and the players shout,mug and flail around among pathetic threadbare sets.According to Harry Thompson's biography of Cook,Pete and Dud were deeply unhappy about Morrissey's approach to the material,and saw they'd got themselves into a disaster.No wonder the off screen audience throw rotten vegetables at Dudley at the end.A truly stupid film. .....that rumbling noise whenever this film is shown is old Sir Arthur spinning in his grave!