Product Details

• Actors: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Paul Benedict, Richard Brestoff
• Directors: Carl Reiner
• Writers: Steve Martin, Carl Reiner, George Gipe
• Producers: David V. Picker, William E. McEuen
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 14, 1998
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000F13N
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #362,036 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice movie, bare bones DVD, March 3, 2000

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Eyal Teler (Jerusalem Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Man with Two Brains (DVD)

This is a nice Steve Martin movie, with some good laughs. It's enjoyable and funny. Not the funniest thing ever, but certainly not bad. I'd give it 4 stars.

The DVD is the simplest I've seen. The sound is in mono (! ), there are no special features, no subtitles, nothing. There is a scene selection menu, which is entirely textual. There's supposed to be close captioning, but I have no idea how to get at that. I wish they had normal subtitles.

In short, there's a reason that this DVD is inexpensive, but this doesn't detract much from the enjoyable movie (except that I would have liked subtitles, as English is not my native language, and having things spelled out helps).

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The DVD is missing a few scenes from the movie..., January 30, 2002

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[e-mail] (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Man with Two Brains (DVD)

Although I enjoyed this movie, I wanted to make any potential buyers aware that the DVD is missing a few scenes from the original movie: The scene where the Bellboy in the elevator goes through puberty in 10 seconds is missing, and the whole sequence where Ann Uh-Mel-Muh-Hay's brain is damaged and she forgets the letter "Z" ("A ebra lives in a oo") is missing.

Other than that the DVD is a good transfer of the movie, and I highly recommend it.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Into the mud, Scum Queen!", July 22, 2003

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cookieman108 "cookieman108®" (Inside the jar...) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Man with Two Brains (DVD)

I give this movie four stars, but three stars for the release. I don't understand why this movie couldn't be released with both wide screen and full screen format, but there you go. With this DVD, we only get the full screen release. That doesn't take away from how funny the movie is, and maybe I am just being nit picky as is my way sometimes....

Anyway, Steve Martin stars as Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, a world-renowned brain surgeon, who has developed a new method of brain surgery called the cranial screw top method. It involves unscrewing the top of a person's skull for easy access and much faster recovery time.

Suffering the recent loss of his wife, he accidentally hits a woman named Dolores, played by Kathleen Turner, with his car. She suffers a massive head injury, and Steve Martin is the only one who can save her. She also bears a remarkable resemblance to his deceased wife. He saves her, they fall in love, and get married. Only problem is she is a conniving, cheating, lying, evil woman who's main interest is money and infuriating her husbands, making the veins stand out on their foreheads.

During their honeymoon trip to Europe, Dr. Hfuhruhurr meets a fellow scientist who has perfected a method of keeping brains alive in jars. During a visit, one of these brains, that of a woman, begins to talk to him, through telepathy of some sort, and they develop a relationship. Realizing his feelings are growing for this bodiless brain, he drifts away from his wife and even begins scheming to replace his wife's brain with that of Anne, the brain in the jar.

There's a lot more, but that's the gist. This is a very funny sci-fi comedy movie, in the vein of a Young Frankenstein, but not as good. This is what I call 'old style' Steve Martin, the more rowdy, raucous, animated Steve from the old days of SNL and The Jerk, before he became more refined and sophisticated. I still think he's funny now, but I just never got into that whole Father of the Bride/LA Story comedy. Lots of sight gags, some slapstick and profanity, and a little nudity, which give this movie an R rating. No extras, no wide screen format, but still a lot of fun. A good, stupid adult comedy with one of my favorite lines that I think only Steve Martin could have delivered as well as he did which is the quote I used in the title of this review.