In the second part, Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill will return to their roles as Enola and Sherlock. Who else will play in the sequel, has not yet been disclosed. The plot of the future belt is also kept secret.
Recall that the movies are based on the novels of Nancy Springer. They tell of the sister of Sherlock Holmes, who flees home to investigate the disappearance of her mother on their own, because her siblings refuse to help.
Enola Holmes 2 4K ReviewEnola Holmes replicates the fate of her much adored older brother - and it's not just about investigations, ciphers, or undercover work (but detective gimmicks, too, of course). Just as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's hero once took on a life of his own outside the author's jurisdiction, the Nancy Springer book series was just the starting point for the Netflix brainchild. The first film ran headlong into the credits, but kept looking back to the source material ("Enola Holmes and the Marquis in the Mousetrap"), the sequel freed itself from literary precepts and instead offers a reminder of what was really going on in late 19th century London.
Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) finally gets her first case on her own: the private investigator has to track down the girl's sister (Serrana Siu-Ling Bliss) from the match factory. Sarah Chapman has a falling out with her bosses and gets away from production, getting accusations of theft in her wake. As is the Victorian setting, the missing little person turns into a grand conspiracy: Enola pines for her mother (Helena Bonham Carter), forges a family and professional bond with Sherlock (Henry Cavill), figures out sympathies for Lord Tewkesbury (Louis Patridge) and saves those she can save.
A major paradox of the Enola Holmes films is how adventures are both old-fashioned in form and progressive in ideas. They are both comfortable teen movies in the best traditions of the 90s and 00s, with an almost total lack of ambivalent characters: the bad guys do bad things (this time they cast David Thewlis as the superintendent bastard), the good guys suffer but fight back, and the time in between is filled with dancing, chases, stakeouts and harmless jokes. Nineteenth-century London is a huge playground for all sorts of heroic hooliganism, which doesn't stop for a minute for the entire two hours. Millie Bobby Brown, in puffy skirts, deftly climbs the piping to the roof, escapes the constables (and, if necessary, can punch the lawmen), learns to waltz enthusiastically but without zeal, and coquettishly addresses the audience by breaking the fourth wall. You-versus-you communication is the equivalent of friendship, for which the screen is no obstacle: who better than Millie, the role model for girls ages 12-14 today?
Enola Holmes handles the function of the ABCs of feminism for beginners with ease, playfully, but at the same time uncompromisingly. There's no doubt that the film will infuriate conservative viewers with its blind casting, its liberties with Conan Doyle's legacy and its demonstration of female strength (not only ideologically but also physically), but it can hardly be called a target audience of 35+. Enola Holmes is an older girlfriend for schoolgirls who can do everything, even if she can't do much: the detective can shoot an arrow and box fearlessly, but dancing at a ball, wearing a tight corset and small talk cause almost insurmountable difficulties. Failures at a social occasion are not presented as a disregard for etiquette and gaps in femininity - Enola was raised by a very different mother, and there is no harm in that. Mrs. Holmes reappears, and again briefly, but there is enough tenderness in the daughter-mother bond to last the entire running time - a little Carter and Brown magic. The film dwells more on the brother-sister relationship: Sherlock is not the mighty detective, but rather the perfect older mentor one can only dream of at age 14. The duo of Henry Cavill and Millie Bobby looks ridiculous on the one hand, but is charming in its awkward disharmony on the other. Mycroft, on the other hand, is not back in the sequel: Sam Clafin is the only one of the cast of the first film who has gone into the shadows, but perhaps not for long: the new sequel to Victorian Investigations, though not yet announced, is predestined.
One can only be genuinely happy that Netflix has succeeded in creating a niche franchise, and that the girls have their favorite detective. Director and producer of the breakthrough "Trash," Harry Bradbeer, having worked with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, has also found the right key to talking to the younger generation, who will surely grow up better than we did. The frantic pace, the parallel editing, the mischievous flashbacks and the perpetual cross-dressing circus - Enola, like her peers, can't sit still at all, but has already begun to grow up inexorably. The film closes with a history lesson and a literal illustration of how one small step (not on the moon, but in production) changed the world a little bit in 1888. "Enola Holmes 2" is a film shamelessly straightforward and crystal clear, but perhaps that's what a feminist tale for girls should be. It's a little sloppy, panting, sentimental, and romantic (it's hard to imagine how many Tewksberry fanfics have already been written and how many more will be): Enola is a fantasist and makes up in vivid colors a world that didn't exist but that she really wants to believe in.