Review - Jekyll & Hyde…Together Again
JEKYLL & HYDE… TOGETHER AGAIN [R]
review by Robert Newton
Another of Paramount sub-licensor Legend Films’ long-lost ’80s gems (see also our review of Student Bodies), 1982’s Jekyll & Hyde…Together Again is finally out on DVD, and man, is it a whole lot of fun.
The movie was a great showcase for comedian Mark Blankfield, the “Fridays” star who could have upstaged any of the pre-Eddie Murphy era cast members of ABC’s rivals on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” Blankfield, whom comedy fans will also know as the blind Blinkin from Mel Brooks’s 1993 spoof Robin Hood: Men In Tights, plays dual roles in this loosely based adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel. (There’s actually a scene at the very end where the famous author actually rolls over in his grave.) While the mild-mannered man of medicine, Dr. Jekyll (Blankfield), is engaged to a pretty rich girl named Mary (Bess Armstrong) and lives […]
Original post by Robert Newton
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