Looking like something that the bat threw up, veteran character Oliver Reed guess one of the worst and unfunniest performance of the 1980's. In fact, had it not been for the 1982 bomb horror comedy "Jekyll and Hyde Together Again", read might have actually been at the top of the worst. This has one Saving Grace over that one. This one directly to cable TV rather than getting a theatrical release, while the other one was fully released where it was born and promptly croaked. I guess Cannon films in one of their earliest efforts realized they couldn't get away with something this bad, and why start your run out of "Hollywood's Gate" with something this hideous. While Reed is a good dramatic actor, when he's doing drama, when he has been in the occasional comedy, t's worked because he wasn't trying to be funny, and here he tries too hard, bombing faster than the conclusion of "Dr. Strangelove".
A physically deformed physician at a rather wacky medical facility, Reed a patient's who aren't actually looking at him when they go into the office and scream in horror when they finally look up and see him. The other doctor in the facility treats heavyset women with a procedure that makes them lose weight immediately, but they walk out of the office with lemon puckered lips. Reed is experimenting with drugs to change his appearance, and when he succeeds, he turns into a handsome but murderous buffoon who accidentally kills the women he's trying to lose his virginity with. That results a bunch of unfunny slapstick scenes where all the women die in cartoonish ways. His efforts to pick them up make him look even more like a lunatic than before.
This is a type of film where the audience asks, "Is this for real?" I sat there like the audience in "The Producers" with my mouth agape, stunned that anybody who had seen any of the Mel Brooks parodies could even think this was remotely funny. The ensemble is collectively wretched, and the script is up there with "Slapstick of Another Kind" as one of the worst of the 80's. Good comedy certainly isn't hard because a lot of it is rotten. The only hype I can recommend about this is that audiences who dare to even make an effort to watch this will be running out of there faster than the guy whose feet Dr. Hype wants to cut off.
A physically deformed physician at a rather wacky medical facility, Reed a patient's who aren't actually looking at him when they go into the office and scream in horror when they finally look up and see him. The other doctor in the facility treats heavyset women with a procedure that makes them lose weight immediately, but they walk out of the office with lemon puckered lips. Reed is experimenting with drugs to change his appearance, and when he succeeds, he turns into a handsome but murderous buffoon who accidentally kills the women he's trying to lose his virginity with. That results a bunch of unfunny slapstick scenes where all the women die in cartoonish ways. His efforts to pick them up make him look even more like a lunatic than before.
This is a type of film where the audience asks, "Is this for real?" I sat there like the audience in "The Producers" with my mouth agape, stunned that anybody who had seen any of the Mel Brooks parodies could even think this was remotely funny. The ensemble is collectively wretched, and the script is up there with "Slapstick of Another Kind" as one of the worst of the 80's. Good comedy certainly isn't hard because a lot of it is rotten. The only hype I can recommend about this is that audiences who dare to even make an effort to watch this will be running out of there faster than the guy whose feet Dr. Hype wants to cut off.