Jekyll And Hyde Together Again

watched this as a kid when it came out..... haven't seen it since it came out 40+ years ago !a must watch !!!!

Really funny movie. Text me back to my youth.

I think this is likely a cult classic, but I have never held a discussion with anyone who knows of this movie. I think it was overshadowed by the likes of Airplane!, Top Secret, and a host of others of the time. Perhaps its was a bit too audacious in terms of "drug" usage for its day and age, but in my opinion, this was hilarious. An underrated performance from the main actor, Mark Blankfield.

I have tried to but this in a dvd format since forever, gave up as it wasn't available. tried again and snarfed up my copy and watched it as soon sit arrived. Dated subject IMHO but as good as the original release was.

Growing up, I was a kid of the "VCR Generation", and when this newfangled invention entered our home, so too did a number of movies that are very well known and popular, and movies that were of their time and became obscure and hard to find. "Jekyll And Hyde...Together Again" is of the latter. It was one of those movies you would rent a number of times because it was wild and hysterical to a kid back then, or you caught it whenever it would air on HBO (which, back in the day, would be routinely. Actually, back in the day, a lot of cool films would air on TV that is unheard of now, sad to say). It was an obscure film for many, but remembered and loved by those fans who turned it into a cult hit. Thankfully, it has been released on DVD and can live on.Mark Blankfield (who is hysterical and should be working more!) plays Dr. Henry Jekyll, a world renowned surgeon at the 'Our Lady Of Pain And Suffering' hospital. He announces he is no longer going to operate, but will instead turn his attention to research. When he accidentally concocts a potion in his lab, a super drug, and accidentally inhales it, it turns our mild mannered Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde, a spiky haired, mustachioed, gold toothed, hairy chested party animal. As Hyde, Jekyll lets all his inhibitions go and lets it all out. In the process, he acquires an obsession with Ivy, even though he is to be engaged to Mary (Bess Armstrong) as Dr. Jekyll.What we have here is a very politically incorrect comedy in the way that only a wild 80s comedy could do. Ah, I miss those days. The movie has a lot of physical, slapstick humor, but also sight and sound gags in the vein of Mel Brooks, and the Zucker Brothers ("Airplane", "The Naked Gun"). You really don't know what will be seen or heard next. Blankfield, as Jekyll and Hyde, is a real comedic genius in my opinion. It is a real blast to see the dynamic difference between him as Jekyll and the wild and crazy Hyde. He really goes all over the map and is a master at this type of humor. I've seen him here and there in movies and TV since (although I hear he is teaching now), but not in a long while. He really should of been more popular and worked more. The rest of the cast do what they can, but this is Blankfield's show. As Hyde, he chews the scenery and everything else he can get his hands on. The rest of the cast does include Tim Thomerson (another familiar 'Whatever happened to him?' face), as well as small cameos by George Wendt ("Cheers"), and Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson as a nurse.This movie is critic proof. It doesn't want to be, or try to be, anything other than a wild and crazy comedy. It delivers in spades. It all depends on what this kind of movie means to you. If this is a nostalgic movie from your past, and you know what you are getting, then you will enjoy it again. If you love this type of genre of comedy, then you should find plenty to enjoy and laugh at. If this is not up your alley, then it never will be and this is certainly not the movie that is going to change your mind,In the end, the movie is what it is. No one is going to sit back and judge it academically. it's unhinged comedy and nothing more. For me, it was a fond and nostalgic memory of my youth. A youth that had me renting and seeing everything under the sun. Movies that you just can't find so easily anymore or at all. "Jekyll & Hyde....Together Again" isn't rocket science. It's a goofball comedy that was designed to laugh and have a good time. After all these years, the movie brought back a lot of memories that I forgot about but instantly remembered when they came up. It wasn't watered down by time. It was still a hilarious viewing experience. A movie I remember from a time when it was magical to go to the video store.

If you lived through the eighties you came to expect some wild movies like this.Irreverent comedy, drugs, nudity, and just insanity in general.All the things that made movies back then 1000X better than anything being served up nowadays.Make your life better and watch this classic.

I've got a story for all of you about this movie: In 1982, at the tender age of eight, I was brought along by my ol' man to see this movie at the City Cinema Duplex on a Saturday Afternoon.Now all that week in school, I had been bombarded by "Just Say No" propaganda geared to scare an urchin like me straight. They scared me a little TOO well. All that week, I was afraid some skeevy freak was gonna dose my Orange Juice with some Orange Sunshine and turn me -against my will- into a slobbering, murdering mutant scum like Tony Montana from "Scarface."When I see Mark Blankfield, aka Dr. DANIEL Jekyll, dicing up some blow... er, a sample of his SERUM, I start getting nervous. Why would my pop bring me to some awful, AWFUL movie that plumbed the depths of the seedy underworld of NARCOTICS? Bear in mind I was eight, and had yet to learn of "Reefer Madness." Long story short: Blankfield snorts the blow and undergoes the hideous, diabolic metamorphosis INTO... Frank Zappa with gold chains and MOOD RINGS???When he flashed his gold plated tooth with the "LOVE" engravement, I proceeded to laugh my baby-smooth ASS off. I even told my pop after the film, "That guy looked like one of your hippie friends!" That made my pop laugh even harder!Bless this goofy little film! Blessed be the show-stopping number, "Hyde's Got Nothing to Hide!" And pity poor George "West Side Story" Chakiris for his hapless cameo! "J&K Together Again" helped me get over my paralyzing phobia of drugs. NO, I'm not a stoner. It's no classic, but it's a damned sight better than "Porky's" or "Police Academy!" THAT'S RIGHT, I SAID IT!!!Mark Blankfield is da Shizzle, and he deserved a more rewarding comedic career. (I mean, CHEVY CHASE? Eyyyyuck!) I wish it would come out on DVD, 'cause seeing the original film release I KNOW there's cutscenes I don't have on VHS!I say with great pride that I am addicted to this film for life!

Just and old time all time favorite. Out of this world comedy version. Definitely not for the younger crowd. But a good laugh. Strange.. but good.