Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes dilemmas, Watson hires Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine), an alcoholic, womanizing, ne'er-do-well actor to impersonate Holmes. The twenty-third film in the VeggieTales series is entitled "Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler", and features Larry the Cucumber as Holmes and Bob the Tomato as Watson. Robert Downey, Jr. appears as the detective in the Guy Ritchie–directed "Sherlock Holmes" (2009) and its sequel "" (2011), with Jude Law as Dr. Watson, Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, and Jared Harris as Moriarty. "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" is the highest-grossing Sherlock Holmes film, grossing $545 million worldwide. In 2010, low-budget film company the
Sherlock Holmes pastiches been inverted for comic effect, as in Gene Wilder's 1975 film "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother". Here Holmes' younger brother Sigurson (Wilder), who is jealous of 'Sheer Luck' as he calls him, is manipulated by Holmes into solving one of his cases. 1988 brought Thom Eberhardt's role-reversal comedy "Without a Clue". The film depicts Dr. Watson (Ben Kingsley) as the real detective genius and Holmes (Michael Caine) as a bumbling idiot who is merely an actor and a front man for Watson, with a plot which cleverly mirrors the real life circumstance of Conan Doyle (also a physician)