Sherlock v Sherlock

So who do you prefer Robert Downey Jr or Benedict Cumberbatch? Jude Law or Martin Freeman? Stephen Fry or Mark Gatiss? It's interesting that the two 'reboots' of Sherlock have taken very different approaches. The Guy Ritchie approach is a cross between an action film and a pantomime, with Downey Jr playing it for laughs in between the set piece action scenes. There is plenty of pow but little sleuthing. The Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss approach is to set it in the present and have a more traditional 'whodunit', although updated with things like Dr Watson publishing a blog.

Personally I found the movie OK but too long. I couldn't really tell you what the plot was - the only things that stick in the memory are Sherlock being camouflaged as a couch and it had the actress from the original Girl With a Dragon Tattoo series. Very little whodunit and a rather needless nude scene from Stephen Fry meant it was all fairly amusing but it's relationship to the original Sherlock Holmes character was tangential.

The Moffat/Gatiss reboot is excellent. The two leads are superb together and having Una Stubbs as Mrs Hudson is wonderful casting. Admittedly for me Moffat can do little wrong as he was one of the people behind Press Gang which was one of the best, if not the best, Children's TV dramas of all time (mind you, with the last series of Doctor Who he is testing my patience). It respects the sleuthing heritage of Sherlock, which has to be its key draw, and it leaves you wanting the next episode.

So for me it has to be Cumberbatch, Freeman and Gatiss.