See, this just looks fun.<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first Holmes movie was surprisingly enjoyable. My only concern with this one is sequelitis, wherein a sequel decides to crank up all the elements that clearly made the first movie a success and omit the more subtle notes that leavened those elements. That’s tough to detect here, but I am hopeful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See, this just looks fun. The first Holmes movie was surprisingly enjoyable. My only concern with this one is sequelitis, wherein a sequel decides to crank up all the elements that clearly made the first movie a success and omit the more subtle notes that leavened those elements. That’s tough to detect here, but I … <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/12\/new-sherlock-holmes-trailer-looks-pretty-good.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “New “Sherlock Holmes” trailer looks pretty good”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,526],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-movies","category-sherlock-holmes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25174,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/07\/movie-review-sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows.html","url_meta":{"origin":21553,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 7-Jan-12 3:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Margie and I went and saw this last night -- Kay stayed home (preferring to see it when it comes out on disc). 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