Jolly Good Fun

Rating: 7/10 (11 May 2004)

What a gloriously outrageous film. The kind of movie that has you smiling from beginning to end.
I don't often laugh out loud at the movies but the opening conflict with Mr Hyde was hilarious. To come up with the idea of linking Mr Hyde with Shrek using Robbie Coltrane's wonderful Scottish growl is pure inventive genius.
Only The Simpsons challenge it for old movie references and surely a lot of the fun is spotting them all. I would even swear I have heard the GVH heavenly chorus before. Can't put a name to it but it was from some old biblical epic or other.
Hugh Jackman strutted his stuff as a Sergio Leonesque mystery man very well but I thought Richard Roxburgh was rather hammy, trying but never quite achieving the Gary Oldman menace. I thought Igor could have done with a few more dollars spending on his make up too.
A spectacularly over the top movie.