Product Details

• Actors: Sean Young, Tim Daly, Lysette Anthony, Stephen Tobolowsky, Harvey Fierstein
• Directors: David Price
• Writers: David Price, Oliver Butcher, Robert Louis Stevenson, Tim John, William Davies
• Producers: Frank K. Isaac
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hbo Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 8, 1998
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303926177
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,304 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

He's a doctor in search of the discovery that will change his life forever-and boy, does he find it. An experiment in genetic change transforms this gentle Dr. Jekyll into a murderous Ms. Hyde-and he can't get her under control! A sexy hilarious quick-change comedy.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very funny !!!!!, May 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dr Jekyll & Ms Hyde [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Dr. Jacks decides to make use of his naughty great-grandfather's genetic formula, with humorous results named Helen Hyde. What ensues is the classic "woman scorned" syndrome when Dr. Jacks tries to reclaim their body. Her climb up the corporate ladder leaves Dr. Jacks in many hysterical situations. Combining horror, sex, murder, comedy, transvestitism, miniature poodles and Polly Bergen, this movie is one funny look into the world of Big Business and corporate greed. Dr. Jacks reminds one of Dr. Frank N. Furter in the cross-dressing scenes !

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Delightfully campy spoof on the horror book, May 23, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Dr Jekyll & Ms Hyde [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This 1995 spoof of the famous "Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde," is disappointing in its comedy, mostly focusing on body references and sexual humor to only produce chuckles and groans.

Tim Daly (Dr. Jacks) tries to find a potion to cure the source of human evil by adding estrogen to the potion. By doing this, he transforms into sexy (and annoying) seductress Helen Hyde (Sean Young) on occasions. Helpless to stop this process of man to woman and woman to man, Dr. Jacks tries to convince his fiancee, Sarah (sexy and always watchable Lysette Anthony) to help him find a cure for taking Helen out for good.

The movie is delightfully campy in the beginning, but in the last 15 to 30 minutes, suddenly turns somewhat suspenseful, hilarious, and romantic. A hilariously campy movie with a satisfying ending. Rated PG-13 for crude sex-related scenes and humor, sexual innueudo, nudity and language.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde DVD Review, November 13, 2004

By 

M. Banno (Harrisburg, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (DVD)

The Story

Dr. Jacks is a perfume scent maker. But he's also a scientist. One day he discovers that one of his long lost relatives was the infamous Dr. Jekyll. When he tries the formula to try to perfect it, he unleashes his alter ego, Ms. Hyde. Now he must try to find a way to reverse the curse before its too late and she takes his body and his job.

My Review

I had seen this a while back on tv. Not completely in full, but most of the film. So recently i found the DVD at my local best buy for 5.99. I bought it with 2 other 5.99 dvds (being The Great White Hype, and The Adventures of Pinnochio). So today i watched it and i rediscovered why i enjoyed the movie so much. Its not a horror film, its a comedy. The acting i thought was pretty good and the effects while not the best were decent enough to get the job done. The young woman who plays Helen Hyde, actress Sean Young, is attractive and quite the evil lady. The movie starts as Jacks goes to a relative's will reading. He inherrits his great grandfather's scientifit journals. It is here that he discovers that he's not a Jacks at all, but a Jekyll.

Jacks starts to study the formula closely and discovers that maybe certain things had to be upped before the formula could actually work. What he does is up the estrogine that's inside by 160%. What ends up happening is that its too much, and now instead of turning into an evil hyde man, he becomes a female. Now his life is thrown into chaos as he tries to keep his job going with the perfume place trying to make a new scent, keeping his love life together, and trying to get rid of Hyde. It only gets more difficult when Hyde herself tries to work up a scent and try to take over his life and his job. Funny things happen, and in the end the guy has the last laugh.

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde is rated PG-13 for slight nudity and sexual inuendo.

DVD Featurs

This is the only bad thing about the dvd. THERE ARE NO FEATURES WHAT SO EVER! Not even a trailer! Its almost like a simple transfer of a widescreen VHS version of the movie onto a DVD-R.

The bottom Line

If your into laughs and just want a good comedy, this one's for you. Just don't expect anything extra other than a decent widescreen transfer of the film.