Critics generally view the film as a "hit-or-miss" but ultimately rewarding experience. Rotten Tomatoes gives it an 80% critic score, noting that while it is "spastically uneven," it remains close enough to peak Steve Martin to be thoroughly enjoyable.
Necessiter (David Warner). And so on. The movie uses the basic approach established by Brooks in “Young Frankenstein”: Sight gags, Roger Ebert The Man with Two Brains (1983) - IMDb The Man with Two Brains
: Reviewers from The New York Times and The Digital Bits praise Martin for his "ingeniously dopey presence" and impeccable physical comedy, often compared to the work of Charlie Chaplin. Critics generally view the film as a "hit-or-miss"
: Martin stars as Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, a world-famous brain surgeon who marries a calculating femme fatale (Kathleen Turner) but falls in love with a telepathic disembodied brain in a jar. And so on