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The Man with Two Brains, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: The Man with Two Brains
Year: 1983
Director: Carl Reiner
Rating: R
Length: 90 Min.
Video: Pan & Scan 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: N/A

Stars:
Steve Martin as Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr
Kathleen Turner as Dolores Benedict
David Warner as Dr. Necessiter
Paul Benedict as Butler
Richard Brestoff as Dr. Pasteur

Plot:
It's comedy that's out of its mind (and the drunk-driving test is really, really hard!). Director Carl Reiner and star Steve Martin put their manic brains together in The Man with Two Brains, spoofing mad-scientist movies with a madder scientist: Dr. Hfuhruhurr (Martin), smitten with a disembodied brain he plans to implant into a curvaceous vixen (Kathleen Turner).

Extras:
Scene Access
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
Going into this movie I really couldn't remember if I had seen it before. It is hard to remember all the movies you seen almost 30 years ago. After getting part way through it I realized I never seen the movie before. Unfortunately I didn't care much for this one.  It may have had a laugh or two... but it was just a little too silly for my taste.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Anything Goes on February 27th, 2010)

The Dark Knight, a review by Jon

The Dark Knight
5 out of 5

This film deserves all the praise that has been heaped upon it and more. An overhyped movie that lives up to the hype with an ambitious character driven story that goes against comic book movie formula. It's a clever, layered story that gets to the heart of several characters, using The Joker as a centre-point. A straight comic adaptation would rank amongst the best Batman stories, and that never happens; for instance X-Men 2 was fantastic, but the story wouldn't hold up against the originals. Nor would either of the Spider-Man films (what do you mean there were three? I meant "good" Spider-Man films). This could because it's so well balanced amongst the key characters.

If I have a gripe it's that

Heath Ledger's Joker is as good as you have heard and probably better. The role will be remembered for years, but the best roles are a part of a film, not the focus, and it's a tribute the quality of this story that he doesn't take it over. The rest of the cast held their own and the story is pretty equally shared, revolving around The Joker's anarchy, not unlike Seven. That isn't a lazy comparision.
Actually, The Joker is a good enough villain to have worked in a traditional thriller, but then we'd have to do without Christian Bale's Batman. It's still his film and hopefully, his trilogy. There aren't many good part 3s, but Christopher Nolan could pull it off.

One of the very best comic adaptations, cutting straight to the motivation of each well played character, with a solid story to back them up.

 

(From The Dark Knight on July 27th, 2008)

Fear Itself Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

6. Family Man
A likeable family man switches bodies with a serial killer after a near death experience. Now, he must fight from behind bars to keep the murderer from adding his wife and kids to the long list of victims.
Director: Ronny Yu (Freddy vs. Jason, Bride of Chucky)

Stars:
Clifton Collins Jr.
Colin Ferguson
Josie Rebecca Davis
Stephen Lobo
Brent Stait

My Thoughts:
This is another one I never seen before (reading ahead... looks like I never seen the rest of the episodes in this set!). And is the 3rd one to air in it's original run. This one has an interesting story. But once again not really that thrilled with the episode itself. This one had a pretty cool (but disturbing) dream sequence in it. I did like this one more then the previous one. They did do the ending better on this one.

My Rating:

(From Fear Itself Marathon on April 7th, 2010)