Feminists should be well pleased with the central premise of this hilarious comedy - Steve Martin falls not for a woman's body but for her mind or, rather, her brain (voiced by Sissy Spacek), which is conveniently portable in its glass jar. What could simply have been another horror movie spoof in the style of Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein is turned by Martin and his director and co-writer Carl Reiner into a magnificently surreal movie, which offers the star plenty of well-taken opportunities to display his unique brand of verbal and visual foolery. Mind you, while he steals the film, Kathleen Turner, as his faithless wife, turns in a wicked send-up of her man-eating character from Body Heat, so gives him a good run for his money. As with much fine comedy, good taste is largely kept at bay and the result is a genuine treat.

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