Young Sherlock Holmes

First, I have to admit that I have seen Young Sherlock Holmes before. Usually I reserve my reviews for movies I haven't seen but I figured for this one I'll make an exception because the last time I saw Young Sherlock Holmes was more than twenty years ago and my only memories of the movie were a living stained glass window and a hallucination about pastries that scarred me for life. (Sincerely. When I could tell it was coming my eyes teared up.)
Interesting that it turned up in Movie Lottery 3D now, when I've been watching the recent BBC series Sherlock with Ivy. Coincidentally, Young Sherlock Holmes also features Nigel Stock as Rufus Waxflatter; not twenty minutes before I turned on the movie my mom and I finished watching my least favorite episode of The Prisoner, Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, which stars Nigel Stock as Number Six.
Anyway, on to actually reviewing the movie:

I liked it.
The end.

No, no, okay, fine, not the end. I just don't know what to say. I can't say much without giving things away. The movie opens with a pretty awesome and disturbing setpiece about a guy being attacked by his dinner and bedroom. It then moves on to show Sherlock Holmes and John Watson meeting at school and becoming friends. Sherlock has a love interest named Elizabeth whose wacky uncle Rufus is trying to build a flying machine.
And that's all I'm going to tell you. I think Young Sherlock Holmes is really worth seeing and, by golly, I'm not going to give away any plot points. It's got a really cool mystery, exciting action sequences and some truly disturbing hallucination scenes (like the one about the pastries). The plot goes some places I didn't expect it to go and I'd seen the damn thing before! (Nevermind that I was about five years old at the time, I thought I'd have had vague recollections but almost the entire movie was new to me.)
I'd also like to say how much I liked the fact that it didn't seem gimmicky. I feel like the problem with taking famous characters and giving them a "young self" version is that it can easily seem to be trying too hard or ... I don't know the right words for what I want to express. It's just something that can easily be screwed up. But in this case it wasn't. It was a Sherlock Holmes story that just happened to take place when Holmes was a teenager. And it was well written, well acted and incredibly entertaining.
And, as when I was five, the kid who played Holmes still looks like Julien Lennon to me.

End of line.
-Sally