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Bookmark this pageThe Man With Two Brains (1983)
Director: Carl Reiner
Movie review
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
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- wordsfromthebox.com said...
- Posted on Apr 25 2011 09:14 A suprisingly overlooked comedy from Martin's early period, The Man With Two Brains is ultimately not nearly as wacky as threatened by its promotional material. Though the film misses when it attempts Airplane! style parody, it hits with some well-written gags and solid performances from Martin, the wonderful Kathleen Turner, David Warner and a vulnerable vocal turn by Sissy Spacek as the brain. A note on the Time Out review - the doctor is indeed mourning his dead wife, but the brain in the jar belongs to a stranger, a miss Anne Uumelmahaye.
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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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Cast & crew
Director: Carl Reiner
Producer: David V Picker, William E McEuen
Cast: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Paul Benedict, Richard Brestoff, James Cromwell, Gerge Furth full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 93 mins
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