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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006)

February. 01,2006
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3.7
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R
| Horror Thriller

After successfully curing a primate's heart condition, Dr. Henry Jeckyll develops a personality-enhancing serum for himself which inadvertently creates an evil alter ego personality, Edward Hyde, who sets out to terrorize college co-eds.

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Cubussoli
2006/02/01

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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Voxitype
2006/02/02

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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Sameer Callahan
2006/02/03

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

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Nicole
2006/02/04

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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mikemdp
2006/02/05

Holy moly. Here I am exactly 17 minutes into the film and I'm already regretting spending three bucks for it at Big Lots. Three bucks! At Big Lots, that's a helluva lot of KitKats I gave up in favor of this awful film, and boy, do I feel cheated.Tony Todd? Good in "Candyman" and nothing else, including this. As the titular doctor he's bland, boring and uninteresting. As the titular monster, he's laughable -- equal parts Jerry Lewis in the original "Nutty Professor" and Eric Roberts in anything.Tracy Scoggins has grown old to look like Lily Munster. Except, the actress who played Lily Munster had to work at it. Damn, that's sad.I won't insult you by recapping the plot. You know the story, and none of the differences in this film matter, anyway.There's lots of college coeds in early-'90s lip gloss who don't take anything off. At least they could have given us that. But director John Carl Buechler, who is just... oh, just awful, has such contempt for anyone who would drop three smackers at Big Lots for this garbage he doesn't even give us a peek.Not that a little T&A would have made up for a nonsensical script, molasses-in-Alaska pacing, and the worst acting I've ever seen since that '80s cult VHS classic "Evil Toons" (which was better than this movie).And I want to reiterate -- though the late Roger Ebert would have likely disapproved -- I've come to these conclusions after just 17 minutes into this rotten, rotten movie. I turned it off after deciding my life was worth more than spending time on this.I've read in other reviews Jekyll turns into a giant monkeyman at the end.Not worth it, folks. I'm going to bed. And I hope Big Lots exchanges this for three bucks in KitKats tomorrow.

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lampley
2006/02/06

Total CRAP! Waste of Talent, Waste of Money, Waste of Time.(Spoiler) Any time a minor character tells another minor character in the beginning of the movie that the Major character is "Gorgeous" and we've already seen him as a possibly charming but homely lug, we are in BIG trouble. The makeup man is the director and it's terrible makeup.Poor Tracy Scoggins, normally a beautiful woman, looks like a retired hooker with that shaved eyebrow blue streak eye shadow stretching back to her temples.Tony Todd is just not equipped to rescue this celluloid miscarriage.Nuthin' but offensive Pimpaganda.Pheeww! Somebody open a window!

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joemamaohio
2006/02/07

Renowned horror legend Tony Todd ("Candyman") brings to life...once again...the story of Dr. Jekyll and his monstrous alter-ego, Mr. Hyde. Only this time, it's in modern times, and he's a scientist who's working with animals to discover something (I don't remember what it was, the movie was THAT bad).The violence is extremely toned down, the storyline is so overdone that it's simply boring, and the ending (SPOILER): Jekyll turns into Hyde...and then turns into a giant monkey-man.Once again, I feel that Robert Louis Stevenson is rolling over in his grave.

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JoeB131
2006/02/08

Well, we all know the story. Kindly scientist takes a drug that turns him into a debauched killer. Been done a hundred times and there was no real good reason to do it again.Tony Todd and Tracy Scoggins are good actors, but they are really abused here. Note to Ms. Scoggins. You are a mature, accomplished actress. You can stop taking these roles that should be going to 20 year-olds.Todd fares little better. He seems to really be having fun doing the scenes as Hyde. His Jekyll seems to be subdued and not really into it.Much of the plot seems contrived, especially the parts to get Jekyll/Hyde into the costume that we'd traditionally expect to see Mr. Hyde in. I don't even want to go into the ending, where Todd converts into an ape and becomes bulletproof.

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