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It was the first film produced by [[Amblin Entertainment]] to receive a PG-13 rating. The film is notable for including the first fully computer-generated character, a knight composed of elements from a stained glass window. The effect was created by Lucasfilm's John Lasseter, who is now chief creative officer at [[Pixar]] Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios. The SFX earned the film an [[Academy Award]] nomination, and was beaten by ''[[Cocoon]]''.
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* [[Already Met Everyone]]
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* [[Blow Gun]]: An assassin uses a blowgun to shoot darts tipped with a hallucinogenic drug.
* [[Boarding School]]
* [[Cool School]]: Being cool is what Brompton Academy became.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Nicholas Rowe, who plays Sherlock Holmes, is several years older than most of the other actors playing students. This was probably intentional to give Holmes his necessary height and appearance of superior intellect.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Rathe falls into a frozen river.
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* [[Freudian Excuse]]: For both Holmes' detective career (see [[Troubled Backstory Flashback]]) and being a bachelor ({{spoiler|his first love dies}}).
* [[Fright Deathtrap]]: The Run To Your Doom variety is used frequently in Young Sherlock Holmes, as several elder gentlemen {{spoiler|who pissed off the wrong Egyptian cult as younger men}} are drugged with blow-darts, causing them to see terrifying hallucinations and run into traffic, leap out 3rd story windows, etc.
* [[I'm Going for
* [[Mummy Wrap]]: The cult does this to prepare their victims for sacrifice.
* [[Mushroom Samba]]: {{spoiler|The peculiar way the victims are killed.}}
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Plenty of them.
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* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: Villain Eh Tar uses the alias of Professor Rathe for his cover job at Brompton Academy. Watson even spells this out towards the end of the film as a "very important clue."
* [[Spinoff Babies]]: A pastiche supposedly telling the early life of Holmes and Watson when they first met as teens -- and apparently before Holmes figured out how to solve crimes by logical deduction.
** Perhaps to pacify any purists, Watson's opening narration implies that the whole film may simply be him ''imagining'' what it would have been like if he and Holmes met as youngsters. Essentially, it's Watson's [[High School AU]] fanfiction about himself and his friend.
* [[Taking the Bullet]]: {{spoiler|Elizabeth.}}
* [[The Eyes Have It]]: The scene where the knight in the stained-glass window leaps down to do combat with the poor priest. Notable because it is specifically later revealed, like other deaths in the film, to be caused by a hallucinogenic drug. What the priest saw was in fact all in his mind, but since it made him flee the church and run under the wheels of a moving carriage, he still ended up just as dead.
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