I don't get it, didn't this like fail at the B.O for the first month or so? :S

Good.It was superlative.(means I liked it)

saw it twice. good movie.

...and I guarantee, you will have the same very successful results with 'John Carter', even though it 's not a sequel. Everyone I've talked to liked it alot. Not ONE person said 'Meh' or 'it sucked'.
Not one!
Good movie's need to be supported so studio's make more GOOD MOVIES!
Let the bombs bomb, and the good one's be rewarded!

Economics 101.

It's good for what it is: Sherlock Holmes Action Hero. critics have a big stick up their ass because it's not like the stories, but there are a million versions of those. This is just something different. Different, but good. If they had done the same old thing critics would bitch about it being to familiar. I liked it, and am waiting for the next one.

HOW AWESOME IS THIS? GUY MUST BE REAL HAPPY

Sherlock for intelligently challenged!

@RorMachine - Dunno if you're being sarcastic but that's nothing new either..

Spider-man 3 out-grossed both the other two movies.

X-Men 3 out-grossed both the other two movies.

Transformers 3 Out-grossed the other two movies.

Quantum of Solace out-grossed Casino Royale domestically.

There's literally a lot of sequels that surpass the originals all the time, TDK obliterated Batman Begins box office too!

@Ceejay

You taking a high and mighty stance with regard to the intelligence of America audiences is nothing new ether. Sorry us yanks can't be self righteous prick snobs
like our friends in the UK ,but we are not all the "That blew up good" redneck hicks some of you euros like to make us out to be. We actually can support good dramas every now and then. Schindler's List, great comedy. Saving Private Ryan, laugh riot
The Dark Knight, busted a gut.What about the works of Robert Zemeckis,Paul Greengrass,Oliver Stone,Martin Scorsese,Michael Mann,Ridley Scott,Clint Eastwood,Tim Robbins,Mel Gibson,Spike Lee,Catherine Bigelow? All those people turned out great dramas that sold well with American audiences.Your premise is that Hollywood adapts every thing into an action comedy,action film or comedy,then you go on to list Charlies Angels,Starsky and Hutch and 21 jump street as examples.
Are you for real? all of those shows were action shows.You might as well have bitched that the Dukes of Hazzard movie didn't star Meryl Streep and wasn't directed by Terrance Malik. Your beef doesn't appear to be with American audiences in general but rather with America youth,the choices they make and the fact that America studios actually practice capitalism and give their audiences what they want instead of what guys like you think they should see.If you don't like America,just say so instead of hiding behind an argument which anybody can see is a total fail.
Enjoy yourself supporting indie film making.USA USA (hope you see the sarcasm)

as it should. the first one's fun. the sequel's great. Jared Harris really delivers as the evil genius Moriarty. and RDJ's Sherlock's less annoying than he was in the original. so was Jude Law's Watson.

THIS is how a sequel should have been. an improvement to the one before it.