Sherlock Holmes. Guy Ritchie, 2009.
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Edition screened: Warner Blu-ray, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 125 minutes.
Summary: Animal experimentation and butchering.
Details:
1) Depiction of a laboratory experiment involving a copper pot of simmering frogs along with a frog dissection, 46:50-47:06.
2) Holmes (Morton Downey, Jr.) holds up a dead rat by its tail then cuts off the tail, 1:19:35-1:19:39. This very brief scene cuts immediately to a pig’s head on ice, the beginning of a long scene in the butchering room.
3) Having completed the runaway mine car level and found all eight hidden coins, we now are in the butchering room, 1:19:39-1:23:12, with the predictable assortment of headless pig bodies hanging from a conveyer chain, the bandsaw where they are sliced in twain, heads on ice, buckets of parts, etc. This presentation is not intentionally gory, but quite boring and seems to go on forever.
4) A 6-second recap of the frog experiment scene begins at 1:51:42.
5) A 6-second quick-cut distillation of a rat & pig experiment/torture laboratory table begins at 1:52:26.
The entertaining CGI depiction of a premature ship launch into the harbor is more than negated by a seemingly endless kabloom scene of crates exploding on the dock, or by the thumb-twiddling tedium of the butchering room scene, in which the near-bandsawing of all three heroes is portrayed with a level of suspense approaching the sawmill finale of a 1970s log-flume ride. Fill in your own bit about getting soaked or being all wet.
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