YMMV / Holmes & Watson

• Anvilicious: This movie has such extremely in-your-face and anachronistic jabs at Donald Trump that even people who don't support him will probably find them groan-worthy.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The totally random musical number involving Holmes and Watson suddenly declaring their love for each other after Holmes discovers how much Watson looked up to him. For one thing, the movie isn't actually a musical.
• Bile Fascination: Quite a few people went to see the movie purely after hearing just how bad it supposedly was, especially due to reports of numerous filmgoers walking out before the film ended.
• Designated Hero: Will Ferrell as Holmes is very difficult to take seriously as a hero thanks to his constant demeaning of Watson and his harebrained antics.
• Ho Yay: As usual with Watson and Sherlock. When Holmes discovers how much Watson looked up to him, Holmes and Watson sing about each other. Holmes also buys a bouquet of flowers and rushes to the jailhouse to declare his love for Watson.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Rose Hudson poses as Sherlock Holmes' housekeeper to study him. Secretly the abandoned daughter of Professor James Moriarty, Hudson seeks to impress her father by doing what he could not: defeating Holmes. Through her criminal network, Hudson sends Holmes and his companion, Dr. John Watson, on a wild goose chase while she plots to kill the Queen. Fooling Holmes into declaring Watson the culprit, she captures the arrested Watson and forces him to write about her victory before planting a bomb to kill the Queen aboard the Titanic, coming within literal seconds of success.
  • Professor James Moriarty himself is the "Napoleon of Crime" in London, as well as Holmes' Arch-Enemy and intellectual equal. Stumping even Holmes in his meticulous misdeeds, Moriarty sets up another man to take the fall while he himself sails off to America, escaping justice and only being hunted for by Holmes at the film's end.
• Never Live It Down: The first thing people will often mention about this movie is that Netflix, renowned for having next-to-nil quality control (resulting in having a litany of shows that are So Okay, It's Average at best), turned this down.
• Tainted by the Preview: The trailer for the film wasn't exactly well-received, due to the presence of many unfunny gags.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Ralph Fiennes as Moriarty is a match made in movie casting heaven. Unfortunately, he was used in a lowbrow parody of Sherlock Holmes as opposed to a more serious adaptation. The fact that he doesn't have much screentime doesn't help.
  • Ditto with Hugh Laurie as Mycroft, specially considering how one of his most famous roles was as a certain doctor who was noted as being very Holmesian. He could've been a perfect Mycroft in a more serious Sherlock Holmes work as well.
  • Rebecca Hall does a pretty decent job at selling her character as a sort of Distaff Counterpart to Holmes, lowbrow comedy (like the Ghost parody at the morgue with Watson) notwithstanding, to the point she could have very well played a Holmes-esque character (if not an outright gender-flipped Holmes) in a more serious production.

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