Thread by @BigBillMoon

Here is a story.

A tale about one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

That movie stars Eddie Izzard. It's called 'Dr Jekyll'. It is shit.

Everything about it is bad. The story, the pacing, the setting, the acting...

But especially Izzard.

Here's a sample piece of dialogue.

The story is incredibly poor. They've taken the Dr Jekyll story and put it in the modern day and somehow stripped it of any element of horror.

We're also supposed to believe Izzard's character is a woman.

Not a transwoman.

A real woman. 🤣

Here's some bad acting.

We, the audience, are told in no uncertain terms that Izzard's character is a woman, because of this flashback scene.

We are supposed to believe that this is Izzard as a child.

"Bring me a girl who looks a bit like this old bloke", the director presumably cried out. Poor girl.

Might I also add to the post above:

Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffftt!!!!

There is a lot of product placement, presumably because there's no way anyone else would invest money in this crap.

See if you can spot it in this scene, it's incredibly subtle.

There's a dance scene - which appears to be included just to pad out the run time.

Izzard moves with all the feminine grace of an upturned gravestone.

Spoilers (as if you were ever going to watch this rubbish):

This is the denouement of the movie.

This movie is not a comedy.

This is Izzard is trying to act the best he can.

He cannot act.

To prove he's a 'good actor worthy of awards', and not just some bang-average past-it comedian who took a job that no proper actor wanted to stoop down to take, Izzard puts on a weird American accent for no reason at all.

He sounds like he's doing a stand-up bit.

He is not.

So there you have it, one of the worst movies I have ever had the misfortune to watch (and I've seen Sex Lives of the Potato Men, which honestly looks like Citizen Kane next to this crap).

At NO POINT is the fact that Izzard is a bloke in a dress and a wig mentioned, despite the fact that he bigger jaw than Frankenstein's monster.

This movie insults Robert Louis Stevenson, insults the story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and insults the audience.

It scores 0/10.