I enjoyed "Enola Holmes" and "The Babysitter: Killer Queen"
Like I am with all Netflix original movies, I was a bit hesitant going into Enola Holmes and The Babysitter: Killer Queen — there’s no way to really know beforehand how good Netflix movies are gonna be. But both were very fun!
It’s great to see Millie Bobby Brown get to take on a much more expressive and fun role with Enola Holmes than she gets to play on Stranger Things. This is a movie that’ll live or die by the performance of its lead actor, and I’m happy to report that Brown is excellent. Her Enola is smart, funny, and not a little bit kick-ass, and you absolutely want to follow her on her mystery-solving journey. Now, the resolution of the central mysteries are a bit underwhelming, and the movie ends with some kinda disconcerting information about Enola’s mother left up in the air — but that kind of thing is pretty standard for any Sherlock Holmes story, and it doesn’t ruin the rest of the film at all.
The choice to cast beefcake Henry Cavill as Sherlock is hilarious, but damn, it kinda works. The curly hair, the well-tailored suits — I can’t really imagine Sherlock himself lifting weights and working out, but it’s still enjoyable to see the results of such activities. Hoo mama.
The Babysitter: Killer Queen is a sequel to the 2017 comedy-horror The Babysitter, which was about a young kid, Cole, finding out his babysitter Bee (Samira Weaving, who was so great in 2019’s Ready Or Not) is in a devil-worshipping cult. By the end of that movie, he’s killed all of the cult members, including Bee, and declares he’s now too old for a babysitter.
Killer Queen picks up a couple of years later; nobody believes Cole about the devil cult, he’s a social outcast with only his pretty next-door neighbour as his friend, and his parents want to put him in a mental hospital to help with his “delusions.” Instead, he runs away with his neighbour to party on a houseboat for the weekend — except that the dead cult members return from the dead to complete the ritual they failed at two years before.
The raunchy, hilariously gory comedy continues from the original film, and luckily this time we get even more from Ken Marino as Cole’s dad. (I’m now at the age where I get crushes on the main characters’ dads.) There are a LOT of exploding heads and bodies in this, but it’s all played for jokes in a way that worked for me — this isn’t the funniest movie in the world, but it’s fun enough.
Sadly, Weaving isn’t in Killer Queen as much as I’d have liked, though they do build up to her reappearance well. However, the movie does a strange bit of retconning of the original film right at the end, and it doesn’t quite make sense. That said, a totally enjoyable hour and a half that I didn’t regret spending!
That’s all for me today, gorgeous. Talk to you soon.
Love,
Kat
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