DR. JECKYLL AND MS. HYDE

Name: DR. JECKYLL AND MS. HYDE
Item: DR. JECKYLL AND MS. HYDE
Author: Gaby Gaduh

Family Content: -4 Intentional blasphemy, evil, gross immorality, and/or worldview problems. (To be avoided)

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(Ro, Ho, LLL, VV, SSS, NN) Romantic worldview with no morals & extensive homosexual themes; 11 obscenities, 16 profanities & 11 vulgarities, Moderate violence including mans face burned, almost electrocuted, punches to face, & punches to crotch; extensive sexual references including 1 act of implied intercourse, seduction, an unmarried couple living together, a homosexual character treated comically, & crude references to sex & genitals; and, rear male nudity, frontal female nudity & obscure full female frontal nudity plus man & woman in underwear.

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In an attempt to put a comedic twist on a story so overdone it should be put out of its misery for good, DR. JEKYLL AND MS. HYDE fails completely. Struggling to become a light romantic comedy (or, perhaps, the ultimate gender-bender, cross-dressing, transsexual fantasy), this film with Tim Daly as the scientist, Richard Jacks, and Sean Young as the evil Ms. Hyde, disappoints at every turn of the predictable and tired plot. The old story is given a nineties twist as the mad scientist is an obsessive biochemist for a perfume conglomerate. His patient fiancee is a successful architect, and Ms. Hyde is a strikingly beautiful and intelligent woman whose evil springs from her ruthless ambition to take over Richard’s life and career — not to mention the perfume he developed before his personal experiment went awry.

DR. JEKYLL AND MS. HYDE stretches itself, but not the actors who can do little more than posture in their shallow roles. The bad script shows cliched stereotypes of hen-pecked husbands and homosexuals. Often crude, it has rampant foul language and poor comedy lines on sex, gender and body parts. It is a shame the cast and this film got together. If ever a movie didn’t need to be made, DR. JEKYLL AND MS. HYDE is it.