At The Films: Enola Holmes 2 is enjoyable, girl-power leisure

Enola Holmes 2 (PG13)

129 minutes, out there on Netflix

3 stars

The story: Recent off the triumph of her first case in her 2020 Netflix hit, 16-year-old Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown), a sleuth the equal of well-known large brother Sherlock (Henry Cavill), is employed to discover a lacking match manufacturing facility lady.

Enola Holmes 2, based mostly on The Enola Holmes Mysteries teen e-book collection by Nancy Springer, expands Enola’s spirited adventures into the grownup world of Eighties Victorian London the place, having opened her personal detective company, she is discovering herself laughed off for being younger and feminine.

The match manufacturing facility thriller is her one break. It takes her from smoggy sweatshops to a excessive society ball, to nothing lower than a lethal conspiracy linked to Sherlock’s personal investigation into official corruption.

The rivalrous siblings must companion up.

Their dynamic provides to a fleet and sensible sequel that’s, for all its crime-fighting derring-do, most satisfying within the brainiac pair’s meticulous puzzle-solving.

Cavill is a dashing Sherlock. Additionally returning alongside Emmy-winning Fleabag (2016 to 2019) director Harry Bradbeer and his screenwriter Jack Thorne are Helena Bonham Carter because the suffragist Holmes mom, Enola’s “nincompoop” crush Lord Tewksbury (Louis Partridge) and Inspector Lestrade (Adeel Akhtar). David Thewlis performs the villain, a viperous Scotland Yard superintendent.