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Don't Believe the Hype

Best movie of this year hands down!

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

I know it's an Abbott and Costello movie and I wasn't hoping for gritty realism, but just a few questions:If the story takes place in London, why are there so many American characters. OK, I'll give Abbott and Costello a pass since they are the stars of the film, but why is the reporter American and, more importantly, why is the Vicky character American. According to her, she was raised by Dr. Jekyll since she was a little girl, so wouldn't she have a British accent?Why do the British bobbies take orders from the Craig Stevenson character? Towards the end of the film, the American is leading the manhunt. Why are they taking orders from someone who is a) a civilian and b) a foreigner?Did the screenwriters ever read Robert Louis Stevenson's book? Dr. Jekyll was a kind man. As played by Boris Karloff, though, Jekyll is pretty much a jerk too who harbors a weird sexual fixation on his young ward.Just a few thoughts.

Watching Abbott&Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde the only thing that struck me wrong was the casting of Craig Stevens and Helen Westcott as the young lovers. Both are completely American and have absolutely no trace of English speech pattern for a story set in Victorian London. Even Bud and Lou's presence in the film is explained that they are Americans studying English police methods. Which begs the question, what police force in America would hire them?The cultivated Dr. Henry Jekyll is played by Boris Karloff, but his Jekyll is not the scientist that we saw Fredric March and Spencer Tracy play. He's well into his experiments that now have him change without warning into Mr. Hyde. Unlike with Tracy and March, Hyde does not speak he just grunts and growls the way Karloff's Frankenstein monster does.Westcott is Karloff's ward whom he has raised since childhood, but those aren't fatherly glances he's giving her now. Especially since young reporter Stevens has become interested in Westcott after covering her at a suffragette rally. It doesn't take much to get his inner Hyde going. As for Bud and Lou none of their patented burlesque routines are featured here, but they still get plenty of laughs. Unfortunately for the film, their best moments are as London Bobbys trying to break up the suffragette rally where the women do get the better of them which is at the beginning of the film.Of course at the end Costello gets jabbed with some of Karloff's Hyde serum and goes off on an inner Hyde journey of his own. Reginald Denny has a fine role as the English Scotland Yard Inspector driven quite crazy like Herbert Lom by this pair of American Clouseaus.Not the best of A&C, but the boys still had a lot of good humor still left for their audience.

This is an example of a good idea but one that looks like it was done too many times. This is the boys second movie with Karloff (the other being several years earlier). This one is just not as good.What is missing here is John Grants script writing. When Grant writes, he remembers that A&C are verbally funny and give them some oral comedy. That is what this film is missing.Oh, if only the idea had at least gotten some of Grants dialog got into this, the opportunities are here as the boys have several sequences with Boris, but alas, they are not to be. There is plenty of physical comedy.

While not the worse A and B movie, it's certainly no the best. Enjoyable at times, but A an B seem a little laid back and distracted in this one. Perhaps they made too many films of the same nature. Good for one viewing just to see Boris Karloff. A wonderful actor wasted in this, but he does well. The plot, like all of the boys films, is very slim and excuse for high jinks and routines. Craig Stevens and Helen Westcott are merely decorative and haven't much to do. The effects are quite cheesy, but I guess that's part of the fun. One wouldn't really want much reality in an A and B film. Of all the A and B "meet" movies, my favorite is A and B MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN. A true classic and I never tire of watching it. A and B MEET FRANKENSTEIN is also excellent.