There have been many versions of "The Hound" since it was first filmed in Germany in 1914. This isn't the worst but it's certainly the sleaziest, since it takes Ernest Pascal's screenplay for the 1939 version and merely "updates" it with dreadful dialogue. Fresh? Thrilling? Fuhgeddaboutit. Richard Roxburgh is a dull, unconvincing Holmes, and Ian Hart is a laughably bad Dr. Watson -- he plays him "tough," but like George W. Bush strutting around in a flight suit, it's not exactly convincing. By the time the Hound, a CGI relative of Scooby Doo, shows up, you'll be lunging for the remote.