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Meet Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin), the famous brain surgeon. Perhaps the name is not unfamiliar, though it is unpronounceable; the good doctor is the inventor of the celebrated "screw-top" method of brain surgery, in which the top of the skull twists off as easily as the lid of a pickle jar. The man may be a medical genius, but his talent for love leaves something to be desired, which explains his marriage to a gold-digging vixen (Kathleen Turner). Ah, but Dr. Hfuhruhurr may yet find true love, in the form of the disembodied brain he discovers in the lab of a mad scientist--David Warner, gone the Frankenstein route. (Lovely image: Hfuhruhurr in a rowboat, taking the brain out for a romantic ride on the lake.) Thus, in its own utterly goofy way, does The Man with Two Brains delve into the eternal dilemma of male indecision: does a man fall in love with a woman's body, or with her mind? Along the way, of course, there are gags both highbrow and very, very lowbrow, a mind-body split that might be why critics have tended to prefer the more sophisticated slapstick of All of Me (directed, like this film, by Carl Reiner) and Roxanne among the early Steve Martin outings. Still, this is one of Martin's funniest pictures, and a game Kathleen Turner, fresh off her Body Heat success, ably spoofs her own sultry image. The cerebral love object is voiced by Sissy Spacek. --Robert Horton
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film is simply hilarious. Why? Because right from the very start we are drawn into a world of the sublimely ridiculous. Steve Martin and others act the part brilliantly. The jokes are the zaniest and most urinatingly funny you will ever see. This is a classic film and has been overlooked by many. You will not regret buying this film if you love silly and crazy humour. It is the kind of film to watch with a new girlfriend and laugh yourselves stupid!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I've wanted to really like this movie but previously it's not clicked with me. I thought it started good but lost steam after the first half hour, and then dragged on with too few jokes too far apart. There was a lack of forward motion to it which annoyed and bored me. I considered it to be an overrated dud with some signs of quality here and there.
This time, for no obvious reason, it clicked with me. I found it to be engaging from the start to the very end. Perhaps it worked this time because I was paying proper attention to the "dramatic" story and not just thinking of it as an excuse they were using to string some jokes along?
It's a gloriously silly film and Steve Martin is excellent. It really is a puzzle how he stopped being funny from about the early 90s onwards (a very notable exception being the brilliant Bowfinger in 1999)?
The film could certainly be better (quicker pace, more jokes, nicer visuals) but it's good enough for some easy laughs. Not a masterpiece but a good film.
This time, for no obvious reason, it clicked with me. I found it to be engaging from the start to the very end. Perhaps it worked this time because I was paying proper attention to the "dramatic" story and not just thinking of it as an excuse they were using to string some jokes along?
It's a gloriously silly film and Steve Martin is excellent. It really is a puzzle how he stopped being funny from about the early 90s onwards (a very notable exception being the brilliant Bowfinger in 1999)?
The film could certainly be better (quicker pace, more jokes, nicer visuals) but it's good enough for some easy laughs. Not a masterpiece but a good film.
Format:DVD
I vaguely remembered the action of this movie I had partly seen on TV as a child and when I saw the Amazon offer for 2.99 I said "why not?" and went ahead and bought me the DVD.
the old movie is extremely funny, and the plot is close to insane, but the whole magic of the movie resides in the fact that it is not pompous, serious and demanding critical acclaim: you can genuinely feel that the actors loved what they were doing, having fun with the roles and the storyline.
For you to get an idea of the plot: the doctor with an unpronounceable name, played by Steve Martin, falls in love with a female brain and does not know how to make the woman/ brain of his dreams be a part of his life. Does it sound believable? No...and it shouldn't...that's the whole fun of it!
In this fantasy world, a man can actually fall in love just with a woman's brain and not her appearance, thus solving the dilemma a lot of women have had: yes, we care about your thoughts more than you think!
the old movie is extremely funny, and the plot is close to insane, but the whole magic of the movie resides in the fact that it is not pompous, serious and demanding critical acclaim: you can genuinely feel that the actors loved what they were doing, having fun with the roles and the storyline.
For you to get an idea of the plot: the doctor with an unpronounceable name, played by Steve Martin, falls in love with a female brain and does not know how to make the woman/ brain of his dreams be a part of his life. Does it sound believable? No...and it shouldn't...that's the whole fun of it!
In this fantasy world, a man can actually fall in love just with a woman's brain and not her appearance, thus solving the dilemma a lot of women have had: yes, we care about your thoughts more than you think!
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Excellent film
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It's a no-brainer!
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Big Steve Martin fan, this is one of his better films which any Steve Martin fan would have seen by now.
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Best Film Ever with a Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr character
An extremely funny movie, it deserves to be up there with Airplane! and The Naked Gun in the best 'stupid-funny' films of all time.
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Published on 23 Dec 2007 by Jay
The funniest film ever made
This has got to be one of the funniest films I have ever seen. A whacky plot, Steve Martin at his best, the perfect foil to Kathleen Turner. Read more
Published on 6 Jun 2006 by S. Lindley
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This is a film any comedy fan has to watch. Usaully i don't laugh that much but this made me chuckle loads steve martin is just so funny the gags never wear thin, a good... Read more
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