{"id":1434,"date":"2024-07-30T16:26:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2024-10-14T12:45:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T16:45:24","slug":"jekyll-and-hyde-together-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/07\/30\/jekyll-and-hyde-together-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again <\/strong>(1982)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paramount\/Comedy-Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 87 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, sexual humor, nudity, drug use\/references)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jerry Belson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Monica Johnson, Harvey Miller, Jerry Belson and Michael Leeson\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Music: Barry De Vorzon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Philip H. Lathrop\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: October 22, 1982 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Mark Blankfield, Bess Armstrong, Krista Errickson, Tim Thomerson, Michael McGuire, Neil Hunt, Cassandra Peterson, Jessica Nelson, Peter Brocco, Liz Sheridan, Belita Moreno, George Wendt, Virginia Wing, Michael Ensign, John Dennis Johnston, Sam Whipple, Barret Oliver, Tony Cox, Art LaFleur, Lin Shaye, George Chakiris.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $3.7M (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0Just like its main character, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again<\/strong> has two distinct personalities. Sometimes it\u2019s a spoof of Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s classic story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Other times, it\u2019s a drug comedy in the grand tradition of Cheech & Chong. Veteran TV director Jerry Belson (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) tries hard to reconcile the two and mostly succeeds. While it\u2019s not as consistently zany as Airplane, it\u2019s funny in the same dopey way the misadventures of stoner duo Cheech & Chong are funny. In other words, I like it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Mark Blankfield (The Incredible Shrinking Woman) plays Dr. Daniel Jekyll, a world-renowned surgeon who announces his intention to retire from performing surgery in order to focus his efforts on his research. He\u2019s been trying to create a formula- in the form of a white powdery substance, of course- to unlock man\u2019s deepest survival instincts. It would eliminate the need for surgery altogether. His decision doesn\u2019t go over too well with his boss Dr. Carew (McGuire, Partners) who already promised sickly billionaire Hubert Howes (Brocco, Fighting Back) that Jekyll would perform his upcoming operation, the world\u2019s first \u201ctotal transplant\u201d. He threatens to cancel the doctor\u2019s wedding to his daughter, bubble-headed snob Mary (Armstrong, Jaws 3D), if he refuses.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Jekyll falls asleep while working in his lab late one night and manages to accidentally snort some of the powder from yet another failed experiment. It transforms him from a wimpy workaholic to a drug-crazed sex maniac. And what a transformation it is! Hair and gold chains sprout from his chest. Rings grow on his fingers. A certain appendage grows larger. Dressed like a disco stud from 1979, Hyde heads off to find Ivy Venus (Errickson, Little Darlings), a foul-mouthed nightclub singer Jekyll treated in the ER earlier that day. After a night of wild sex, Jekyll is his old self again only now he\u2019s addicted to the drug that brings out his animal instincts.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I was lucky enough to see Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again<\/strong> at the movies. It did so poorly, it was gone in a week. It took a little convincing on my part, but the parentals let me see it that Saturday afternoon. Only a handful of people showed up for the 1pm matinee. I laughed my head off at it. I thought it was one of the funniest things I ever saw. Keep in mind that I was 14 at the time and still hadn\u2019t seen the uncut version of Animal House. Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again<\/strong> briefly appeared on HBO the following August before disappearing. I didn\u2019t see it again until it finally came out on video in early \u201987. I\u2019ve watched it a few times since (okay, maybe more than a few) and still find it funny even if it isn\u2019t necessarily a comedy classic. Believe me, it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I could point out that Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again<\/strong> is cheap and poorly made, but since when has that stopped me from enjoying a silly comedy riddled with corny humor and dirty jokes? You\u2019re talking to somebody who really likes Screwballs and Night Patrol. Sure, not all of the jokes in Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again<\/strong> land, but the hit-to-miss ratio is definitely in the hit zone. If I\u2019m being completely honest, I enjoyed it more than Young Doctors in Love, the other hospital-set spoof that came out that year.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Blankfield, one of the cast members of the short-lived SNL knock-off Fridays, does a good job in both title roles. He\u2019s believable as a mild-mannered, clueless sort frightened by his newly-discovered split personality. Jekyll is the type that doesn\u2019t even think about sex; he\u2019s too invested in his work to see his fiancee has physical needs. When he becomes Hyde, he\u2019s a complete wild man. He does crazy things. He orders chicken sushi at the Japanese punk rock club where Ivy performs. He moons a nun. He sniffs around like a dog for Ivy at a supermarket. When he takes a plane to London to receive the \u201cPutzpuller Prize\u201d, he rides on the outside of the plane. At the ceremony, he performs a song (\u201cHyde\u2019s Got Nothing to Hide\u201d) and full monty striptease before being chased through the dark London streets by angry audience members in a B&W sequence. By all rights, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again<\/strong> should have made Blankfield a big comedy star, but it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Armstrong does good work as the prissy pea-brained fiancee who greets patients in the hospital\u2019s charity ward with \u201cHello, sick people!\u201d BTW, the name of the hospital is Our Lady of Pain and Suffering. Errickson is better as a nymphomaniac who longs for a more mundane existence with Jekyll. I always found her sexy and appealing. Tim Thomerson (The Wrong Guys) co-stars as a plastic surgeon who takes breast augmentation to extremes in one of the movie\u2019s silliest scenes. Character actor John Dennis Johnston (48 Hrs.) shows up as the guy who agrees to donate both of his testicles for Hubert Howes\u2019 total transplant. Look also for the great Lin Shaye as a horny nurse.<\/p>\n

\u00a0At my age, I probably shouldn\u2019t laugh at Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again<\/strong> like I do, but since when do I care what others think of my taste in movies? I call it a guilty pleasure, but I\u2019m not ashamed of liking it. I\u2019ll tell you what, it\u2019s a hell of a lot funnier than most of the crap passed off as comedy these days. I could cite funny scene after funny scene, but why spoil it? Instead, I\u2019ll talk about a missing scene that I distinctly recall from the theatrical version. After the breast augmentation incident (BIG HUGE FAKE BOOBIES!), Thomerson\u2019s character puts the air hose down his pants with the intention of doing the same to his you-know-what. Why did they lose this scene? They ought to put it back in.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In any event, I will go on record with my love for Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again<\/strong>. Sure, it\u2019s dumb and dirty, but I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again (1982)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paramount\/Comedy-Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 87 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, sexual humor, nudity, drug use\/references)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jerry Belson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Monica Johnson, Harvey Miller, Jerry Belson and Michael Leeson\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Music: Barry De Vorzon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Philip H. Lathrop\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: October 22, 1982 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Mark Blankfield, Bess Armstrong, Krista Errickson, Tim Thomerson, Michael […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedies","category-guilty-pleasures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Jekyll-and-Hyde.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}