captainsolo said:
I agree with Bingo that the Ritchie film wasn't as bad as I thought it would be...but that only goes for the first one. The second film is an absolute tepid mess of scenes just scrambled together. It makes no real sense.
Downey does speak with that weird attempt to do an accent, and for some reason thinks that by speaking it in a very clipped and brusque manner that it will come off better. It doesn't.

IMO the only big positive was Law's Watson, as we finally get to see the good Doctor as an active participant instead of lowly side assistant.

You should check out the BBC's adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) . The watson portrayed there is a lot truer, although there are quite a lot of deviations from the original source, to how he's depicted in the books. i.e. actually competent and intelligent.

The same actor who played Watson there also played Watson in another Sherlock Holmes tv movie thingy, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking.