The Man with Two Brains

Rate It

Seen it:     Not seen it:  Comments:    clear rating

Share It

• Recommend this movie
• Invite friends to see it
• Add to list... My Favorite Movies Create a new list...

Rating Averages

My Friends	Not rated. ()
All Flixster	(7436)	2224	13451
Female	(3029)	906	5479
Male	(4407)	1318	7972

More Like This

If you liked this, then you'll also probably like...

Got another recommendation for someone who liked this movie? Add it to the list!

Got an opinion? Use the buttons to vote on all the suggestions people have added.

If lots of people vote, the best suggestions will rise to the top.

2001 - A Space Travesty (0%)
The Jerk (60%)
Man With the Screaming Brain (25%)
The Nutty Professor (44%)
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (50%)

View More / Suggest Another

Plot: 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" me...( read more  )thod 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

• 
  starrey1
  ONLINE NOW
• 
  jeremy2626
• 
  WhiskeyWar
• 
  princess92028
• 
  flygirlstormyee
• 
  weazel420
• 
  dofficer
• 
  kpedig69

• 
  pulpdog2001
  

  MCT:

  June 8, 2008

  One of my all time favourite comedies, definitely room for it on my top 5 I reckon. It's a bizarre mixture of soap opera and 1950s B-movies that never puts a foot wrong. This is how comedy should be and Steve Martin has never bettered it, I don't think any film has such a high hit-rate

• 
  grayavec
  

  MCT:

  May 23, 2008

  No horror here, just Martin-style comedy of the obscure kind. It's the odd-couple in one body problem that runs the entire length of the film. Kind of gets old fast.

• 
  FreddieQ
  

  MCT:

  May 21, 2008

  This film was so funny and Steve Martin was the perfect guy for the part. His name was very funny Huffffufffur or something like that.

• 
  JasonDuron666
  

  MCT:

  March 1, 2008

  Extraordinarily silly turnout from Steve Martin as a famous brain surgeon with a hilarious name who falls in love with a brain (even taking it on corny dates, which are some fucking hilarious scenes). This movie is slightly bizarre and one of the oddest entries from Martin and director Carl Reiner who had been doing several movies together around that time. Oh well, still a hilarious and great 80's flick.

• 
  MsCarnag
  

  MCT:

  February 29, 2008

  oh man, dad got me watching this one night, what a goober movie :D. There were funny parts, but overall it's a guy flick

Register or sign-in to see your friends' reviews !

• 
  kindangel19

  Did ever think about talking to a brain? Not a person! The actual brain!If you wanna see what that looks like, u should watch this movie! It doesn't mean the movie is lame! It's funny in a stupid kind of way!

  posted 648 days ago

• 
  David Warner
• 
  James Cromwell
• 
  Kathleen Turner
• 
  Sissy Spacek
• 
  Steve Martin

• Rated: (R)
• Directed by: Carl Reiner
• Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
• Released: June 3, 1983
• DVD Released: March 30, 1999

No recent headlines. Got one?

No skins yet. Interested in creating one?

• THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS
  by fb536894528 - 28 Users Taken
  Created 207 days ago

• 

  The Man with Two Brains

• 

  Películas que recuerdo haber visto...

  by diegostudio
• 

  My Movies!

  by loopylass14uk
• 

  The Guardian's 1000 Films To See Before You Die PA...

  by littlecharmer1...
• 

  Movies to get

  by Hanley2oo8
• 

  Steve Martin Collection

  by kitt9