Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

John Brooks In one phrase of a couple of words, that's the best way I could find to nail down what this film was.If you've seen Steve Martin at all, not necessarily in films he's part of the writing crew but if you've seen him, you'll know his presence always brings about an element of utter randomness at times bordering on clownish performances and flat-out surrealism. So you're warned when you know he both stars and co-wrote this one. It's one of those films that clearly separate the viewing public in two: those who will be sensitive to it, and those who won't understand how this was ever released and why people have given it any consideration.If you know Martin as a writer now, you'll understand exactly what this is if you refer back to my title. His stories always contain an outrageously passionate love story at the center of it bordering on (or fully in) madness, set in remote places/with random strange things occurring consistently.This one is just about good enough to make you laugh, enjoy the story and concept, and have a genuinely good time.6.5/10

mark.waltz A delicious black comedy along the lines of "Death Becomes Her", this practically forgotten Steve Martin farce is now going on to my list of one of the best comedies of the 1980s, as well as one of the best comedies you've probably never heard of. Steve Martin plays a widowed doctor who specializes in brain surgery and all of a sudden becomes enamored of the gorgeous Kathleen Turner who has just managed in a hysterical opening sequence to knock off her wealthy older husband. Spoofing her role in "Body Heat", Turner is deliciously evil, and seems to be have a wonderful time in playing this part. Martin, of course, does his usual schtick, but mixing science fiction elements with a spoof of film noir which he had already done recently with "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid", he finds true love with a seemingly still living brain, voiced by none other than recent Oscar winner Sissy Spacek.A film clip of the 1953 science fiction film "Donovan's Brain" cast up his interest in experimenting, and features then first lady Nancy Davis Reagan in the archive clip. Verbal and visual sight gags a la "Airplane!" make this worth seeing over and over again.Among the visual highlights is Martin's checking out of a castle like house he wants to purchase, complete with laboratory and Turner's determination to get rid of anybody whom she can inherit money from. Her obvious plans of seducing the handsome Hispanic gardener is also very funny. Some surprise cameos along the way add to the hysterical moments that are frequent and sometimes pass by too fast to catch up on simply one viewing. Veteran director Carl Reiner practically outdoes himself in the delightful way he takes preposterous situations and makes them laugh out loud funny. I could not have seen this in the theater, because I think I would have been choking on my popcorn or spitting my soda at the unfortunate person in front of me. It is that funny. I won't spoil all the delightful things that occur by saying more, but being available on the Warner Brothers Archive Collection, this was more fun than I expected it to be, although I will give credit to the delightfully annoying voiced prostitutes who Martin encounters during his journey. By the time she came along, I was laughing so hard that I was actually crying.

Mr-Fusion I swear, Steve Martin did some of his best work with Carl Reiner. "The Man with Two Brains" is a winning mix of high and lowbrow humor, with much of the movie listing toward the absurd (like the star making out with a jarred brain, for example). Kathleen Turner offers up her sultry image for gags, while ... no, scratch that - everyone here does (David Warner included). As Steve Martin movies go, this is certainly one of my favorites, with its laundry list of one-liners and endearing sense of humor. And as if that's not enough, when we find out who the Elevator Killer is, it's a doozy. I laughed harder at some of the jokes than I have in a long while. 8.5/10

Dalbert Pringle This mediocre Sci-Fi/Comedy from 1983 was so funny that I honestly forgot to laugh.It didn't help matters much that I'm not a Steve Martin fan. His annoyingly goofy screen-persona tends to either bore me, or irk me off a lot. In this picture Martin's dumb histrionics did both.Of course, I can't say that the "Man with Two Brains" was a total waste of time. There were some genuinely funny moments in this film. Like, for instance, there's one real gem when the doctor ventures down to the "red light" district of town desperately searching for a hot enough body to house that brain that he's been storing in a glass jar of liquid preservatives - And it's here that he meets up with the hooker with the squeaky voice.In my opinion, Kathleen Turner's performance as the doctor's sleazy, whorish wife was just as lousy and unfunny as anything that Martin did in the film.