EnolaHolmesNetflix, which adapts the YA series about Sherlock's teen sister, would feel like a basic I.P. grab if it weren't for its subtext—and its star. Our review
At least, that’s very much what Netflix is banking on, judging from the fancy-pants treatment they’ve givenLittered with famous U.K.
So give a heart welcome to Enola , introduced biking through England’s mountains green and asking, in the first of her many direct addresses to the audience, “Where to begin?” After a quick training montage involving the girl and her quirky mother , the young Holmes awakens on her 16th birthday to find that her remaining parent has disappeared. Soon, Sherlock and Mycroft arrive to suss out the situation, with the latter intending to send Enola to a finishing school.
Slipping on to a train while dressed as a young man — this is her go-to getaway costume; she’s a master of many skills but only one single disguise — Enola heads to London in search of her mum. She also meets a boy in a bag, who turns out to be Lord Tewkesbury . He’s folded himself into a satchel so as to smuggle himself to safety, as his family is looking for him and his life may be in danger. Once they arrive in Blighty, the two teens go their separate ways. But fate isn’t done with them yet.
Brown has such a natural wit and compelling screen presence, such an ability to shift from curious youngster to screwball comic to charismatic action hero on a dime, that it’s hard not to viewas a coming-out party of sorts. Look at the movie as a source of endless sequels, and you might sigh wearily. Reframe it as a star vehicle, however, and its charms are elementary.
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