I acknowledge that I'm not the target audience for this movie, but come on, it still could have been more entertaining than it was.

"Enola Holmes" is a heavy handed girl power movie that awkwardly tries to jam a 21st century female empowerment theme into a corset. The movie is annoyingly aware of itself -- the main actress is always looking straight into the camera, winking and smirking and talking to the audience like we're part of the action -- but not good enough to pull it off. The movie wants to have its cake and eat it too. Enola is a feminist role model for young girls yet the movie still seems to find a way to stick her tomboy character in a restrictive Victorian gown so that she can look pretty. It's ok, you see, because she CHOOSES to wear the dress as part of a disguise. She then proceeds to do martial arts while wearing the dress, which pretty much negates every point the movie made up to that point in time about how corsets were just one convention society engineered to keep women contained in their place.

Young girls might like this movie. Maybe?.....

Grade: C