Steve Martin Archives

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)

Rating: ★

Feb 25, 2013Gonzo Beatles-Adapted Musical/Classic Bad Movie

A real what-were-they-thinking turkey where someone had the idea of turning the Beatles' album into a disco-era film starring The Bee Gees … In trying to contrive a plot around the songs and their surreally psychedelic lyrics, the film frequently makes no sense

Director: Michael Schultz

Actors: Peter Frampton, Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, …

Category: Fantasy

25 February 201310 January 2024 by Roog

The Muppet Movie (1979)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 2, 2001Muppet Movie

The first and best of the Muppet films where Jim Henson spins them off onto the big screen with charm and sly humour

Director: James Frawley

Actors: Charles Durning, Mel Brooks, Orson Welles, Paul Williams, …

Category: Fantasy

2 February 20016 September 2022 by Roog

The Man with Two Brains (1983)

Rating: ★★★½

Sep 11, 2003Disembodied Brain Movie Spoof

Extremely funny Steve Martin comedy where he plays a neurosurgeon who falls in love with a brain in a jar

Director: Carl Reiner

Actors: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Sissy Spacek

Category: Science Fiction

11 September 200313 September 2024 by Roog

All Of Me (1984)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 3, 1999Bodyswap Comedy

One of Steve Martin’s finest works, a variant of the bodyswap comedy in which he finds himself sharing his body with Lily Tomlin. Martin's on-screen contortions are side-splitting

Director: Carl Reiner

Actors: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant, Richard Libertini, …

Category: Fantasy

3 July 19993 December 2021 by Roog

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 15, 2002Killer Plant Musical

Roger Corman's no-budget comedy about a killer plant is remade as a multi-million dollar musical with top-drawer effects. Missing is the original's black comedy but this has many appealingly eccentric delights of its own

Director: Frank Oz

Actors: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin, Vincent Gardenia, …

Category: Fantasy

15 July 20024 March 2020 by Roog

The Prince of Egypt (1998)

Rating: ★★★★

May 10, 1999Animation/The Biblical Exodus

The second animated film from DreamWorks, an impressively produced retelling of The Book of Exodus and the story of Moses.

Director: Brenda Chapman, Simon Wells, Steve Hickner

Actors: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, …

Category: Fantasy

10 May 199924 June 2021 by Roog

Fantasia 2000 (1999)

Rating: ★★

Jan 3, 2000Disney Animation and Music Anthology

Disney's sequel to Fantasia comes weighted with a sense of its own self-importance - the first theatrical release of the new millennium. However, it fails to produce much that has the stature of the original

Director: Don Hahn, Eric Goldberg, Francis Glebas, Gaetan Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, James Algar, Paul Brizzi, Pixote Hunt

Actors: Penn Jillette, James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin, …

Category: Fantasy

3 January 20001 February 2026 by Roog

Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)

Rating: ★★★½

Dec 16, 2003Toon Adventures

Joe Dante makes a toon film winding in dozens of cameos from Warner Brothers cartoon characters. The results prove enormously playful and creative. Infinitely more creative and fun that the Space Jam films

Director: Joe Dante

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Timothy Dalton, …

Category: Fantasy

16 December 200328 June 2026 by Roog

Home (2015)

Rating: ★★½

Apr 4, 2015Animation/Alien Visitors Comedy

An animated alien visitor film that is more likeable than anything suggests – it has a bubbly, juvenile pitch but generates a good deal of humour out of the alien fish of water amid human culture routines

Director: Tim Johnson

Actors: Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin, Matt Jones, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 April 20151 November 2025 by Roog