Extremely funny, Martin is one of the best of his generation.

Any comedy with the line "The only time we doctors should accept death is when it's caused by our own incompetence" is worth checking out.

They try so hard and maybe it's just me who doesn't find anything funny anymore 🙁

Carl Reiner directs a comedy starring Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner A doctor lost his wife but still keeps her brain fresh in a jar He gets the crazy idea to put it in another person to have a second chance This is a result of an accident after hitting a woman Dolores, a gold digger who goes through rich men It's his late wife's brain in this woman but the doctor suddenly becomes trapped in such a loveless marriage Steve Martin is utterly hilarious here with his comic timing doing a lot of physical stuff, facial expressions, and mannerisms At times this gets so silly it's almost a Monty Python sketch so it comes off really uneven But you'll still laugh yourself silly because of Martin's commitment to such fun lunacy

This comedy classic was great. Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, and the rest of the cast did a great job in this movie. The plot of the movie was entertaining and humorous. It's a funny sci-fi movie about gold diggers and finding true love. If you haven't seen this classic movie yet. check it out sometime. It's worth watching.

Steve Martin rules. Enough said.

This antic filled mish mash has not aged well. Cut and pasted themes and scenes, bits and lines that once worked out of sheer novelty now do not.

It has some genuinely funny moments. Then their are some that thinks its funnier than what it really is. Still got some laughs out of me.

When I was young, I loved Steve Martin and I would always seek out anything he did. I owned comedy albums, watched SNL episodes, and even saw some movies. The one problem with the Steve Martin completionist endeavor was that I wasn’t allowed to watch R-rated films as a kid, so I missed out on a number of his movies. Catching up to The Man with Two Brains now, I felt like a kid again giggling at his silly antics. Of course, there are plenty of sexual jokes in this movie that I would not have understood back then, so it’s probably best I watched it now. The movie is that perfect blend of campy comedy with a real story. It sits in the same category with Airplane or The Naked Gun as a spoof film that tries to keep a logical plot progressing even though things happening in the world of that plot are utterly ridiculous. I laughed a lot while watching this movie because it had a number of my favorite kind of jokes. A couple of examples: I’m a big fan of a well-executed running gags, and this movie contained tons of them; I also love when something completely illogical and silly happens (or is said) and the characters act like it’s perfectly normal. Steve Martin is so wacky that I can laugh at him when he is playing a pompous idiot in The Man with Two Brains. The film tries to make him more sympathetic as the story goes on, which I don’t know if they accomplished, but it didn’t stop me from finding him funny. Kathleen Turner is delightfully devious, and I loved how she manipulates everyone in the movie. She also gets to deliver one of the most offensive and funniest lines in the film. Sadly, from a story standpoint, the film isn’t the greatest. It asks us to care that Martin’s character is being swindled, when he is presented as someone who isn’t all that pleasant anyways. Plus, the movie makes it clear that he should have known better than to get in this situation in the first place. Then as it transitions into the second half, the eventual end result of the story seems obvious. I’m not a big fan of movies that telegraph their ending, but it’s more tolerable when it is a comedy and you can chuckle through it all. The Man with Two Brains is still a solid movie that I would watch again. This isn’t the type of movie you watch for the story anyways, so I can forgive its flaws in that department in order to get the laughs.

The best comedy movie ever made!

Ridiculously funny with black comedy intertwined with satirical sketches reminiscent of Airplane!.

Sci-fi comedy from Carl Reiner and Steve Martin (in their third team-up), about a brilliant brain surgeon who marries a psychopath, and falls in love with a brain in a jar while on their honeymoon. It is a weird movie, but a funny one, with Martin at his manic best, some funny bits from Kathleen Turner, and an all around kooky plot. Not for everyone, but for those that it is for? They will enjoy the hell out of it.

Yet another homage to B movies except this one works.

Silly, profane, twisted and a whole lot of fun.

If anyone but Steve Martin was captaining this ship, it would have sucked huge. Steve Martin is magic.

This film is beyond stupid! But for some reason I do like it.

The worse Steve martin movie ever--absolutely abominable. The movie is unpleasant and disgusting with only a few mere bits of humor. It has no redeeming value whatsoever--even Steve Martin can't save this one. Avoid like the plague!

not as funny as i thought it would be

My first Steve Martin experience, and boy was it wild and crazy.

Easily the best collaboration between Martin and Reiner in their long movie errm...collaborations. Its Martin's second zany wacky off the wall movie after 'The Jerk' which wasn't as madcap as this. In this work of genius Martin is set free to basically come up with as much lunacy as he possibly can and boy does he. The plot is somewhat sensible I guess, a brain surgeon falls for the sexy Kathleen Turner only to eventually discover she is a gold digger and doesn't give a shit about anyone really. In the mean time Martin falls in love with a disembodied brain (in a jar) and decides to try and rescue it with a new fresh sexy body. The whole idea is basically a B-movie homage to various ridiculous horror concepts and at the same time an influence for many future raunchy trashy 80's teen comedies, it serves dual purpose. Its not exactly a full spoof but it comes close at times, its just an insane comedy with surreal touches of outlandish humour that borders on spoof. Most of the funny moments tend to be sexual innuendo or sight gags, some childish some clever and witty, whilst others are clearly in there just for the hell of it, probably created on the spot. Take Martin's character name for instance...Dr Hfuhruhurr, we here Martin say his name properly right at the start but from then on almost everybody pronounces it differently as they struggle to say it, most just give up. This is such a stupid gag ,its infantile, but it works so brilliantly every time yet you don't really know why. You know its stupid but seeing all the various characters pronounce it so randomly is just so fudging funny. The joke is even extended to a few other characters also, you'd think it would get old but it still manages to make you smile. What hit me was how old the film looked, it was released in 83 but it looks like a 70's flick to me. Everything really looks so dated nowadays but I think some of it is deliberate, made to look cheap like an old fashioned mad scientist movie. Naturally the fake castle laboratory within the apartment (nice switch) is the cheesy stereotypical mad scientist vibe for this kind of thing. I like how they include that simply for that reason and actually say that in the film hehe could almost be a Leslie Nielsen vehicle. Its also easy to forget how hot Turner was back in the day, she smoulders here as the evil temptress or black widow. I also like the various bits of ass on display too (yeah sue me). I do recall watching this as a kid and thinking it was a dirty film, to a kid the material shown is quite kinky and revealing for sure, the dialog is also pretty smutty and only now as an adult do I appreciate it, much like all the humour. This has to be Martin's best film or close to, its such a shame he never really did anymore off the wall flicks like this. There is so much that works here, so many little gags and visual nuggets that are admittedly so daft (the very quick human pinball scene) you just can't help but like it (unless you dislike Steve Martin's style of course). Its rude crazy and predictable (with a brief bit of in your face racism!) but for me its probably one of the best comedies made. 'The only time we doctors should accept death is when it's caused by our own incompetence'