Line #61 WesternAnimation/SherlockGnomes


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} They're on a mission to bring every gnome home.]]]]
3	->'''Red Goon Gnome 1''': Prepare for a tale of suspense, intrigue, and mystery.\
4	'''Goons 2 & 3''': Ooh! Mystery.\
5	'''Goon 1''': Prepare for ''[[TitleDrop Sherlock Gnomes]].''
6	-->-- '''The red goon gnomes starting the movie'''
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8	''Sherlock Gnomes'' is an animated computer-animated film that is the sequel to 2011's ''[[WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet Gnomeo & Juliet]]'', released on March 23, 2018. Produced by [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount Animation]] as its first fully-animated film--as well as the first to not use Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s name--and Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer as its first animated feature in an entire decade since the release of ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'', with animation by Mikros Image (''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittlePrince2015 The Little Prince]]'', ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'').
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10	The film follows Gnomeo (Creator/JamesMcAvoy) and Juliet (Creator/EmilyBlunt), who, after their beloved friends and family are missing, must receive help from [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Sherlock Gnomes]] (Creator/JohnnyDepp) and his right-hand man Gnome Watson (Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor) from suffering death from Sherlock's ArchEnemy Moriarty.
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12	'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR-sefx8ncI Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9hwoN987uA International Trailer]]
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14	Any tropes related to this film's characters must be moved to the '''[[Characters/SherlockGnomes character page]]'''.
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17	!!''Sherlock Gnomes'' provides examples of:
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19	* ActionizedSequel: There are higher stakes than the first film which leads to more chase and fight sequences. Though while the first film's climax was a full scale battle between the two gardens, this film's finale takes place on the Tower Bridge, and the protagonists have a far more active role in the fighting this time.
20	* ActionPrologue: The film opens with Sherlock and Watson rescuing some gnomes from Moriarty in a museum, and Sherlock and Moriarty's confrontation ends with the latter's [[spoiler:presumed]] demise. The film's main story takes place a few months after this incident.
21	* AngstWhatAngst: InUniverse and PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:Watson is supposedly killed]], and Juliet berates Sherlock for seemingly not caring. Truthfully, he is just as shocked and upset as she is, though he's trying to focus on his mission rather than his grief.
22	-->'''Sherlock:''' Emotion is the enemy of logic.
23	* AppropriatedTitle: Despite being a sequel to ''Gnomeo & Juliet'', the film is solely called ''Sherlock Gnomes''.
24	* ArtShift: There are four brief sequences in the film inside of Sherlock's mind that use hand-drawn animation instead of CGI, one scene where paper cut-outs are used, and another where flash animation is used.
25	* ArtShiftedSequel: Mikros Image replaced Starz Animation (then Creator/ArcProductions, now Jam Filled Toronto) for the film; animation was still outsourced in Canada. That's a reason why the characters look slightly different.
26	* AspectRatio: Changed from 1.78:1 to 2.35:1 in this movie, being the [[WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter fifth]] [[WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift computer-animated sequel]] [[WesternAnimation/PlanesFireAndRescue to do]] [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3 so]].
27	* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: Like ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', it received a PG rating as opposed to the first movie's G rating.
28	* BearsAreBadNews: Irene's bouncer, bodyguard and general enforcer is a gigantic, hulking teddy bear who is missing an eye.
29	* BigBad: Originally it's [[spoiler:Watson]]. Later on it's revealed to be a trick by [[spoiler:Moriarty]].
30	* BigOMG: [[MissingTrailerScene Only in the trailer]] when Watson refers to one of the small red gnomes whose hat got broke off accidentally by Sherlock.
31	* CallBack: Near the beginning of the film, Gnomeo tries to get a Cupid's Arrow Orchid for Juliet to put in the new garden, recalling how they first met when she was trying to get one.
32	* CatStereotype: Gnomeo, Juliet, Gnomes, and Watson, at one point, are seen running away from the Maneki-nekos.
33	* ChekhovsGun: Watson's grapple cane has been used about as many times. Used to save Sherlock's life, including his [[spoiler:after falling to his death]].
34	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Despite prominent roles in the first film, Tybalt[[note]][[JustifiedTrope Though his survival shown in the first film's Dance Party Ending may not be entirely canon]][[/note]], Featherstone and the ceramic girl that became Benny's love interest are not seen or mentioned here.
35	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: With the red gnome goons after hearing about the bridge being raised up.
36	-->'''Goon 1:''' Oh, no.\
37	'''Goon 2:''' I know, we didn't get to do our big finale. ''[one of the two other goons slaps him]'' What?
38	* ContinuityNod:
39	** The opening scene has one of the Red Goon Gnomes having an introduction, this time in a library with a book as opposed to a stage in the first movie.
40	** There is a thin but only just noticeable line where Benny's hat has been fixed after it was smashed by Tybalt in the first film.
41	** [[MissingTrailerScene In the film's teaser trailer]], Sherlock accidentally knocks over one of the small red gnomes, causing his hat to break like Benny's in the first film.[[note]]Though Benny's has been somehow fixed in this movie.[[/note]]
42	* DeadHatShot: In the prologue the only remains of Moriarty's body after a dinosaur skeleton display fell on it is his hat broken from his head.
43	* DeadpanSnarker: Someone always tends to have a snark at hand when Sherlock does or suggest something unorthodox.
44	* DemotedToExtra: Characters such as Benny, Nanette, Lady Bluebury, Lord Redbrick, and Paris are given supporting roles in this movie.
45	* DescendingCeiling: Moriarty plans to crush the kidnapped gnomes beneath the base of the Tower Bridge drawbridge, which descends as the bridge opens.
46	* EasilyForgiven: Soon after [[spoiler: Watson helps kidnap all the gnomes in London, unknowingly helping the main villain's plan to smash them, he and Sherlock are back on the same team.]]
47	* EveryDeviceIsASwissArmyKnife: Watson's cane displays a plethora of functions. These include a grapple line, a map case, and a laser pointer/garage door opener. [[spoiler: After his leg is broken by Moriarty in the climax, Sherlock spends the rest of the film using it as a walking stick]].
48	* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Watson appears to pull one, but it's revealed that he doesn't plan to harm the gnomes, only to show Sherlock that he deserves more credit than he gets.]]
49	* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Both Moriarty and Watson.]]
50	* GrapplingHookPistol: Watson's cane doubles as a grappling-hook gun.
51	* HighClassGlass: Irene's giant teddy bear bouncer/bodyguard wears a tuxedo and a monocle when he accompanies her to the Awakenings ceremony at the end of the film. A nice touch is that he is wearing his monocle over his missing eye.
52	* HoldYourHippogriffs: "Oh, fertilizer."
53	* HomeSweetHome: All the gnomes move to a new home for an unknown reason. It's probably for the best, as Mrs. Montague and Mr. Capulet recognize that someone destroyed their backyards; they ''didn't'' recognize that their garden ornaments did all the destruction.
54	* ImprovisedParachute: The gnomes use Chinese lanterns as parachutes when they jump from Curly Fu's to the roof of the bus.
55	* ImYourWorstNightmare: The bigger gargoyle introduces himself as this to Gnomeo and Watson.
56	* IndyHatRoll: Gnomeo and Juliet desperately slide under the descending manhole cover as they follow Sherlock and Watson into the sewer.
57	* InterspeciesRomance: Gnomeo's best friend Benny has a crush on Juliet's best friend Nanette (who is a plastic frog).[[note]][[CanonDiscontinuity This movie ignores that Nanette and Paris became close in the first movie.]][[/note]]
58	* IronicEcho: During their first big fight, Juliet tells Gnomeo "The garden can't wait! You can!" Later, she gets angry at Sherlock for not showing more concern over what has happened to Watson and Sherlock replies "The case cannot wait. You can."
59	* LiteralDisarming: Irene rips the arm of Big Boy Gorilla while arm-wrestling him.
60	* LivingToys: Like the prequel, it focuses more on the garden gnomes rather than toys but the movie now shows us more types of characters such as statues and, of course, toys.
61	* {{Manchild}}: Moriarty, in spades.
62	* MythologyGag:
63	** The name on the moving van that moves the gnomes to London is Sherrinford Movers. Sherrinford Bell was Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's originally proposed name for Sherlock Holmes.
64	** Irene lives in ''Doyle's Doll Museum'', named after Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.
65	** When calling out for Gnomeo, Watson reluctantly calls out "wherefore art thou, Gnomeo."[[note]]Though "wherefore" actually means "why", not "where".[[/note]]
66	** In the climax, [[spoiler:Moriarty and Sherlock fall over the waterfall.]]
67	* NeverTrustATrailer:
68	** A couple of the jokes and scenes (notably the "No ship, Sherlock" line) are either removed or altered in the final cut of the movie.
69	** The teaser trailer has Sherlock and Watson coming to the new garden at daytime (with Sherlock accidentally breaking off a small red gnome's hat off). However, Sherlock and Watson arrive in the garden when it's raining (and the aforementioned gnome is joined with his counterparts and other gnomes kidnapped).
70	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Among the pictures of the missing gnomes that the TV broadcasts, there's a gnomic version of Elton John (who took part in the production), wearing pink and with starred glasses.
71	* OhCrap: A gnome with big ears overhears Gnomeo that they will all be smashed tomorrow, causing the others to scream in horror.
72	* PantomimeAnimal: Sherlock and Juliet disguise themselves as a squirrel so they can move about a park in daylight.
73	* {{Parody}}: After ''Romeo and Juliet'', Sherlock Gnomes. He's a gnome counterpart to Sherlock Holmes, of course!
74	* PassThePopcorn: Three squirrels watch attently as Juliet and Sherlock (still disguised as a squirrel) are running from the hound. The one chewing nervously a nut brings to mind someone eating compulsively popcorn (or peanuts, etc) while watching the climax of a terror film.
75	* {{Pun}}: Gnomeo's response to Sherlock's claim that [[MissingTrailerScene they need to commandeer a ship]].
76	-->'''Gnomeo:''' No ''ship'', Sherlock.
77	* {{Ramprovisation}}: While trying to escape the hound in the park, Juliet drives the ride-on lawnmower up a pile of deckchairs that launches the mower into a tree.
78	* RippedFromTheHeadlines: In the [[TheNineties '90s]], garden gnomes actually tended to vanish sometimes -- in France for instance, they were stolen by The Garden Gnome Liberation Front.
79	* RollingPinOfDoom: Moriarty's primary weapon is a rolling pin. (He was originally the mascot of a pie company.) During the climax, he fences Sherlock with him using his rolling pin and Sherlock using his magnifying glass.
80	* ShakingTheRump: Sherlock demonstrates how a squirrel wags its tail.
81	-->'''Sherlock:''' ''[shaking his rear back and forth]'' Do you see what I'm doing? See, do you see?\
82	'''Juliet:''' Yes. [[DoubleMeaning You're acting like a rear-end.]]
83	* ShoutOut:
84	** Moriarty says he was "deaded", that someone is "misrebable"... ''Radio/TheGoonShow'', anyone?
85	** In the opening scene, the two other Red Goons suggest other stories like ''[[Series/GameOfThrones Game of Gnomes]]'', ''[[Radio/TheLoneRanger The Gnome Ranger]]'', ''[[Franchise/TheTwilightZone The Twilight Gnome]]'', ''[[Film/SpiderManHomecoming Spider-Man: Gnomecoming]]'', and ''[[Franchise/IndianaJones Indiana Gnomes]]'' instead of the main story.
86	** The sequence where Moriarty and Sherlock fight on the dinosaur skeleton brings the end of the first ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' to mind.
87	** The gargoyle chasing Gnomeo and Watson yells [[{{WesternAnimation/Moana}} "You're never gonna away on those stubby little legs!"]]
88	** During their final fight, Moriarty says that he and Sherlock [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke "are not different"]], then sings [[Theatre/MissSaigon "you are the sun and I am the moon"]].
89	* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Moriarty is not seen in either of the film's main trailers. Aside from a few brief shots in the TV spots, he is barely in any of the film's marketing.
90	* SuicidalGotcha: When Gnomeo is cornered by Moriarty atop Tower Bridge, he takes a single step backwards and plummets out of sight towards the river. [[spoiler:Where he is caught by Juliet who is hovering just below on the drone.]]
91	* SwarmOfRats: When their boat is stranded by the falling water level in the sewer, Sherlock and Watson start uses ropes to haul the boat off the floor of the tunnel. Gnomeo and Juliet are confused as to why, but quickly learn it is to get the boat (and them) out of the way of the swarm of rats that is approaching.
92	* TheStinger: After the credits, the animated Gnomes form a 'Sherlock Holmes' logo, which is then teased by the animated Moriarty, who is then smashed by the magnifying glass of the logo and says "I hate you, Sherlock Gnomes."
93	* TwoMenOneDress: Sherlock and Juliet disguise themselves as a squirrel.
94	* WeaponizedHeadgear: After Moriarty's hat (which like the Gnomes is actually a sculpted part of his head) is broken off during the prologue, he frequently uses it as an [[CombatPragmatist impromptu throwing disc]].
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96	->''"I hate you, Sherlock Gnomes."''

Context WesternAnimation / SherlockGnomes