This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

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

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

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

The Man with 2 Brains is a science fiction comedy produced in 1983 starring Steve Martin as Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, a brain surgeon who saves lives with his "cranial screw-top" type of brain surgery. One of the victims he saves is Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner), who gets run over by a vehicle in her attempt to escape from her previous husband's coronary which is fatal and caused by Dolores. Dolores is a conniving, scheming woman whom Hfuhruhurr unknowingly falls in love with and marries. On their honeymoon as well as business trip to Vienna, Hfuhruhurr refuses to consummate the marriage and a strange twist happens in the movie. Hfuhruhur runs across Dr. Alfred Necessiter played by David Warner, who is a mad scientist that has discovered how to preserve live brains in jars. It is here that Hfuhruhur meets Annie, a woman's brains that have been kept alive and he falls in love with. The only problem is he now needs to find a body for Annie and fate provides him an opportunity. There has been a series of elevator murders, and his wife gets murdered by the elevator killer so opportunity arises to transplant Annie's brains into his wife's corpse.Cast includes Martin, Turner, Warner, Paul Benedict as the butler of Dr. Necessiter, George Furth as Timon and Peter Hobbs as Dr. Brandon. This sci-fi is just too funny and if you're in for a good laugh with a bit of a twist, then The Man with 2 Brains is for you.

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

I hadn't seen this movie in quite a few years I guess. I had actually forgotten just how incredibly funny Kathleen Turner is. Of course, ten years or so can make a huge difference in the way I appreciate anything so I was more than psyched when a friend bought this movie at Ross the other day. The whole farce and its perfect cast are worth it even if the underlying opinions of the writer aren't immediately understood. Years ago I caught an old recording on the radio about the Lobotomy demonstrations performed back in the 50's by the "innovator" in Psychiatric medicine that invented it. Obviously, Herr Fuhrer (even if it IS Steve Martin) is a parody based very loosely on doctors of that time. Screw-top brain surgery is pretty innovative for sure, which feeds the enormous but self-deluded ego who falls in love with the most manipulative and evil, but very beautiful Dolores of the great speaking voice and fabulous fashion sense- she even knows what costume to wear for each particular mind game she easily works on him. There couldn't be a more perfectly matched couple as far as how equally selfish and driven they both are. Only one problem with the the brain surgeon- he can only ultimately be tied down by a woman who also tells him he is always right and of course,everything else he wants to hear. He grows tired of feeling used and never getting laid as much as he thought he would. Falls in love with a female brain that fits all his needs but must have a body to put it in or all is lost for the Fuhrer in his quest for love. Well, obviously the mean wifey dies and the perfectly docile brain is switched in- food and body issues included but somehow he isn't interested in her body being perfect so long as the brain IS. I secretly hope she gives him a hernia while the dumbass tries to pick her up the second time. Nothing beats a great Steve Martin comedy!