Brain Donors

Brain Donors is a game attempt to redo the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera in a contemporary setting. John Turturro plays the "Groucho" character, a shifty lawyer (he's even given a Grouchoesque three-barrelled moniker). Bob Nelson is the "Harpo" counterpart, a puckish handyman. And Mel Smith ...more

The word to best describe Brain Donors is silly. That's the overriding sense one gets from watching this thinly disguised remake of the Marx Brothers classic A Night At the Opera, although silly in itself is not necessarily a bad thing where this film is concerned. It suffers in comparison to its inspiration, but that is more or less a given. John Turturro assumes the Groucho role as Roland T. Flakfizer, the name itself another Marxian homage to Duck Soup's Rufus T. Firefly, and seems to be ...more