Based on the novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886.
Dr Jekyll announces that he will retire from surgical practice to devote his time to pharmacological research. The hospital owner wants him to perform one last surgery on an elderly millionaire. Jekyll accidentally inhales some chemical products during an experiment, and suffers a physical transformation.
This is a very bad film, and yet a curious one when taken as an experiment whose creative process seems to mirror its subject matter. It adopts a no-holds-barred, anything-goes approach to comedy, never shying away from bad taste or, for that matter, any kind of unpleasantness. Its four writers, one of whom is the director, have done decent stuff elsewhere. In other words, they all have respectable Jekyll careers and this was their Hyde moment.
Rating: 3
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