“Holmes And Watson” (** out of four) was an occasionally amusing comedy based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mysteries set in 1881 as Sherlock Holmes (Will Ferrell) meets John Watson (John C. Reilly) and they become embroiled in an attempt to discover the criminal plottings of Professor Moriarty (Ralph Fiennes) and a beautiful doctor (Rebecca Hall). Not without laughs, and Ferrell and Reilly have good chemistry together, but wears out its welcome after a while and goes overboard with general plot dumbness. And the musical interludes could have easily been cut! For a funnier look at the same characters, watch 1988’s “Without A Clue” instead.