Category: Directed by Carl Reiner
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The Man with Two Brains does not age well. It’s a case study in not aging well, even more so because when the three writers—director Reiner, star Steve Martin, and George Gipe—can’t figure out how to do an ending so they just do an extended fat joke… well, it’s hard to continuing giving the film…
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There’s an almost magical competency to Summer School. It starts with the opening titles, which are expertly edited to showcase the eventual primary cast members. Not the adults–outside lead Mark Harmon–rather the students. There’s no audible dialogue, just a rock song playing, but there’s enough performance from the actors to give personality to their characters…
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Occasionally funny but rather draggy for a ninety minute comedy about imbecile Steve Martin (the titular JERK) ending up rich and shacked up with Bernadette Peters. The first half at least makes sense, the second half is rushed and in summary or half-scene. And Peters becomes a background extra without any lines for the third…
The Stop Button 