Dean's Thoughts on Entertainment

The Man with Two Brains Review

This is one of Steve Martin's classic comedy films, one of his many with Carl Reiner. This one had more sexual humor and nudity than I remember, but it is still one of Martin's finer showcases of goofy humor. In this one he plays a brilliant Brain surgeon who invented the "Screw-top" mode of sugery in which he unscrews their head like a bottlecap to access the brain. His wife had died and he falls in love with an evil gold-digger of a woman played by Kathleen Turner on whom he does his patented surgery. After seeing her for what she is, he falls in love with a brain which he meets in another scientists lab. Although not quite as good as The Jerk, this one is worth watching if you love Steve Martin or his style of comedy.