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- From: sdo@lossage (Sean D. O'Neil)
- Subject: Re: New Zucker Brothers movie(rental) "Brain Donors"..anyone see it?
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:53:53 GMT
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- In article <1h4ja8INNbdg@eagle.natinst.com> darrenl@natinst.com (Darren Lilie) writes:
- >While renting another video this weekend I saw a preview for "Brain Donors"
- >which is now available on video. It is a Zucker Bros. film(the Airplane! guys)
- >and was wondering if it was any good. The preview looked like it would be
- >a dumb movie but I have liked about every other movie they've produced.
-
- _Brain_Donors_ was overlooked when it was released, for some reason. I saw
- it by accident while wasting a night in Florida, and it was pretty damn
- funny. It's essentially a remake of the Marx Brothers movie
- _A_Night_At_The_Opera_, with John Turturro playing the Groucho role, some
- English fellow playing the Chico role, and someone else playing the Harpo
- role (with dialog, interestingly enough). It all works pretty well.
- Why it didn't do better at the theater is beyond me. It seems like an
- ideally-suited movie for video.
-
- Sean
-