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The Man With Two Brains (1983)

Director: Carl Reiner

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From Time Out Film Guide

Played by Steve Martin with the mixture of flat cynicism and crazed childishness which makes him a near successor to Jerry Lewis, brilliant brain surgeon Dr Hfuhruhurr falls foul of a wicked husband-collector (Turner), while still carrying on an affair with the talking brain of his dead wife, conveniently stored in a jar of purple fluid. Also in there somewhere are the crazed 'elevator' killer who turns out to be a very famous American TV chat-show host, the even more crazed Dr Necessiter (Warner, on his usual bonkers form transferring human brains into gorillas), and a condo apartment with an interior as large as Frankenstein's castle. It's a patchy affair, often hilarious, often thin, but it does contain a bewildering array of underwear adorning Ms Turner which would make a corpse sit up and steam. And any movie which contains the line 'Into the mud, scum-queen' is surely not totally devoid of cultural merit. CPea.

Author: CPea 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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BillC said...

Posted on Dec 06 2007 16:03 Two brains was a good attempt to cheer up the 1980's, it almost worked, it does works as a transitional film, or a comedy fable(of sorts) that pokes fun at several human vanities. Steve Martin role plays well, although the movie comes across as somewhat skit-ish.

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