THE ADVENTURE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES' SMARTER BROTHER (1975) - July 22, 2009
A surprisingly dreadful film about the titular brother of Sherlock Holmes, who must solve a case involving a stolen document. Written and directed by the usually hilarious Gene Wilder, this featured jokes which were almost uniformly terrible; the film essentially feels like a poor man's Mel Brooks (from whom it's clear that Wilder took a lot of influence, putting it mildly). Brooks' broad style of humour tends to be hit-and-miss, but in most of his films there are enough big laughs to make up for the failed gags -- here, the humour was ridiculously broad and it never even gets a chuckle. *1/2
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