This movie challenges the viewer to step out of their comfort zone and look into the deep and complex world of consumerism. It's a constant battle of consumerism and communism coming together to fight the common enemy of the gypsies. If you don't like this movie you also probably don't like puppies, vodka and the American dream. 10/10 any day , everyday.

I have to confess that the mass popularity of Bruce Campbell somewhat mystifies me. Yes, he does have talent and charm, but I don't see how he's managed to become a big cult star. Neverless, I was intrigued enough to watch the Bruce Campbell movie "Man with the Screaming Brain" since Campbell was not only starring in the movie, but acting as the writer and the director. However, after watching it, I think that even Bruce Campbell fanatics will find this a disappointing effort. There are a lot of problems with it, many of them due to the script. The story (which seems to have gotten its inspiration from the Steve Martin movie "All of Me", out of all sources) is pretty thin. It takes almost half of the movie before the movie fully sets up the situation. Once everything is set up, the movie's story doesn't speed up that much; they have to throw in a subplot about Campbell's on screen wife to pad things out, for example. But there's a bigger problem. While there are a few (slightly) amusing sequences here and there, the movie as a whole simply isn't very funny. The humor in the script is obvious and lacking creativity and a sense of wackiness. And being the camera, Campbell seems unable to direct his actors with any energy and originality that might have milked a few drops of humor out of the predictable script.To top it off, even by Sci Fi network standards, the movie is really cheap and threadbare, from the shoddy photography to the minimal set decoration. While the movie is not the worst Sci Fi network movie I have been unlucky to see, I am sure that most Bruce Campbell fans will agree that it's one of the most disappointing efforts the network has produced to date.

Man with the Screaming Brain certainly isn't a perfect movie, but I'm pretty sure it was never meant to be anything more than a star vehicle for Bruce Campbell, meaning it works as kind of a summary of his entire career: slapstick, sarcasm, cheese, action, and happy endings. Campbell is, as a writer, uneven--there are lots of things in the story that don't make a great deal of sense (why does the robot suddenly have breasts merely because a female brain has been implanted into it?), and some of the scenes feel like retreads of other, better incarnations (the scene in the restaurant, where Yegor and William battle for control of William's body, is straight out of Evil Dead II). There are, however, lots of little touches and non-sequiturs that feel rather brilliant, such as when William is in the height of his panic and screams at a statue, "What are you looking at?!" The movie looks like a Sci-Fi Channel original, probably because it was. The acting is actually pretty good. I particularly enjoyed Tamara Gorski as Tatoya; she was ruthless and cunning, yes, but seemed to have a tragic air about her in certain moments that the story never explored. Ted Raimi handled the standard "bumbling assistant" role admirably enough, and Bruce is funny as the arrogant, sardonic, condescending American jerk. (Now that he's writing his own films, you'd think he'd give himself a role that he hasn't been typecast in already.) Man with the Screaming Brain is a bizarre, nonsensical B-movie that ought to be enjoyable for anybody who can avoid taking a cinematic experience too seriously.

Or if you've seen the "Evil Dead" trilogy and/or "Bubba Ho-Tep", then you should know that his movies are total farces. With "Man with the Screaming Brain", he goes all out again. In this case, he plays smarmy American businessman William Cole visiting Bulgaria - when do we ever get to see that country? - when a woman kills him. So, strange scientist Ivan Ivanov (Stacy Keach) replaces half of Cole's brain with the brain of a former KGB agent, leaving him acting sort of like Steve Martin in "All of Me".Yes, the whole movie is pretty much an excuse for pure nonsense. Much of the real humor comes from "Evil Dead" director Sam Raimi's brother Ted as Ivanov's nearly brain-dead assistant Pavel. The two men have a relationship more like Laurel and Hardy or Gilligan and the Skipper.So just understand that this is a totally silly movie, and you won't be a bit disappointed. I liked it, anyway.