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: A Game of Shadows critical consensus reads, ""Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" is a good yarn thanks to its well-matched leading men but overall stumbles duplicating the well-oiled thrills of the original." Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating to reviews, gives the film a score of 48 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale. Roger Ebert, who gave the first film three stars, was even more positive in his review for "A Game of Shadows", awarding it three-and-a-half stars