This unknown "classic" from 1982 doesn't star anyone you've probably ever heard of (unless "Blinkin" from Robin Hood: Men In Tights counts), but if you're a fan of movies by the Brothers Zucker (Airplane!, Naked Gun!), this movie should have more than enough for you to appreciate. This piece of comic gold helps to remind us what makes comedies really and truly funny: dick and fart jokes - with a dash of "drugs are great!"-style humor thrown in for easy, cheap laughs. There is no sub-plot, no "message", and certainly no political bent.
Dr. Daniel Jekyll has decided to forgo his successful career as a surgeon to dedicate his time to bringing out "man's primal instinct for survival" - through (how else?) drugs.
Huzzah for drugs!
Luckily for us he fails miserably and instead creates a formula that brings out his id: a sex starved, drug-fiend degenerate, whose only goals are an easy lay and "better living through chemistry". Since this is 1982, and this is a comedy (of the sort that wouldn't even make it to direct-to-DVD release nowadays), the drug of choice is cocaine. Keep in mind, this is pre-"Just Say No", so comedies glorifying drug-use were acceptable...and pretty godamned funny.
Hilarity, hi-jinks, and possibly bestiality (no worries - it's the funny kind) ensue when Jekyll accidentally snorts a line of his latest batch. Unlike Stevenson's Jekyll - who was tormented and torn by his condition, and eventually committed suicide - this interpretation of Jekyll isn't all that bothered by it.
"What harm could possibly come from it?"
And why would he be? Though this version of Hyde is indeed a sociopath and (comically) violent, he's also the epitome of everything that was bad about the transition from the 70's to the 80's: popped butterfly collar, gaudy rings on every finger, white-guy 'fro, neck-chain with a razor-blade attached, silver tooth with "LOVE" etched into it - all topped off with a "bad mo-fo" disco strut.
"Let's party, babe."
There aren't too many quotable lines in this film, but here's one that might make sense out-of-context:
"That's my name - Mr. Hyde!"
"Dontcha have a first name?"
"No. My parents lacked imagination."
Past that, you'll just have to watch it. And I wholeheartedly encourage you to do so. The 12-year-old Mojo demands you do so.
Things I learned from this movie:
- Drugs will make nerdy guys instantly cool
- Cool guys have sex with hookers
- It is realistically possible to have two girlfriends who know about each other
- If your nuts are defective, you can get a new pair via transplant
In short, this is a movie where you can leave the room and not have to worry about missing anything. It's just good, old-fashioned empty-headed fun.
"Hold this for me - I won't be needing it." |
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