If I were stranded on a deserted island with only one movie to keep me company, this would be it — it's that good.
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Why is Brain Donors so good? Because it takes two great things and mashes them together into a sum that is far more than its parts — namely, the wacky antics and snarky wit of the Marx Brothers with the Rapid-Fire Comedy of Jerry and David Zucker. It's the result of a A Night at the Opera having wild wanton sex with Airplane!, a movie that would be destined to be a comedy classic if not for Paramount trying awkwardly to pretend it didn't exist. The movie is a showcase of the best works from two teams of comedy titans dovetailed into a seamless whole, ricocheting from Roland T. Flakfizer's biting wit and Double Entendres to Rocco Meloncheck's absurdist antics to Jacques' pantomime gags and endless font of props and back again. The subplot with Alan and Lisa carries the movie even higher, turning the trio into sympathetic Karmic Tricksters who use their wackiness to triumph over the Jerkass Volare and Lazlo.
Brain Donors is not a deep, life-changing movie, but it doesn't have to be — it's 80 minutes of nonstop madcap comedy with a heart, two lovers, three unrestrained clowns, an inflatable secretary, and more wit and cleverness than legally allowed by any movie since the abolishment of the Hayes' Code.
A movie so funny, I'd gladly be stranded on an island with it
If I were stranded on a deserted island with only one movie to keep me company, this would be it — it's that good.
...
...
...what?
...
...oh, I'm supposed to put more here? Okay.
Why is Brain Donors so good? Because it takes two great things and mashes them together into a sum that is far more than its parts — namely, the wacky antics and snarky wit of the Marx Brothers with the Rapid-Fire Comedy of Jerry and David Zucker. It's the result of a A Night at the Opera having wild wanton sex with Airplane!, a movie that would be destined to be a comedy classic if not for Paramount trying awkwardly to pretend it didn't exist. The movie is a showcase of the best works from two teams of comedy titans dovetailed into a seamless whole, ricocheting from Roland T. Flakfizer's biting wit and Double Entendres to Rocco Meloncheck's absurdist antics to Jacques' pantomime gags and endless font of props and back again. The subplot with Alan and Lisa carries the movie even higher, turning the trio into sympathetic Karmic Tricksters who use their wackiness to triumph over the Jerkass Volare and Lazlo.
Brain Donors is not a deep, life-changing movie, but it doesn't have to be — it's 80 minutes of nonstop madcap comedy with a heart, two lovers, three unrestrained clowns, an inflatable secretary, and more wit and cleverness than legally allowed by any movie since the abolishment of the Hayes' Code.