The Dream Team

1989

Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller

28
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 16 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 61% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 16291 16.3K

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Plot summary

This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now they're lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group therapy.


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May 29, 2016 at 12:45 PM

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Christopher Lloyd as Henry Sikorsky
Michael Keaton as Billy Caufield
Peter Boyle as Jack McDermott
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mark.waltz 6 / 10

Another Abby Normal Peter Boyle movie.

Peter Boyle really need to be putting on the pants when he goes to his therapy movies in this amusing but not great comedy that pairs him with Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd and Stephen Furst as for mentally ill patients being taken to a Yankees game but never get there. As a result, they end up on the streets of New York all night after their doctor (Dennis Boutsikaris) is attacked and left unconscious in an alley after witnessing a murder. These escapees from Macadamia Manor get into all sorts of mischief, with Keaton running into waitress girlfriend Lorraine Bracco and saving her from a bunch of obnoxious customers while the other three just end up in some very bizarre situations

I thought it ironic to see Boyle and Lloyd in the same movie together, often mistaking one for the other in the various oddball roles they've played on screen. Lloyd is very funny, appearing initially Stark naked and flashing his buttocks to the audience as boy walks around pretending he's the doctor. Later on, Boyle ends up in a all black church, reacting hysterically to the musical interlude, one extra in particular looking on at him as if he's about to break into fits of laughter. Lloyd goes around with his clipboard pretending to be a city inspector everywhere he goes, and of course, that gets him into loads of trouble. I was crying fits of laughter when Boyle ends up giving his testimony in church with hysterical results.

This is a likeable film, far from perfect but still with the ensemble in amusing situations but not really a great story. Keaton and Furst have the weakest material, and Keaton in particular doesn't come off that great because his character is more violent than funny. Shots of vintage New York City late at night in the 80's are fun, as is a shot of the original World Trade Centers scenes from New Jersey before the van goes through the Holland Tunnel, as well as some amusing comments about the tiles on the ceiling of the tunnel underneath the Hudson. The script was fine, but it's more a bunch of incidents rather than a real plot. In the end, it's like a very long extended comedy short with a flicker of a story, mainly memorable because of the two comic geniuswe in fun supporting roles. Director Howard Zieff has great comic timing, and could have been another Mel Brooks. Worth checking out in spite of its imperfections.

Reviewed by jboothmillard 7 / 10

The Dream Team

In ways, this seems a similar concept to that of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (besides the fact that the main character is genuinely crazy and committed). Basically, Dr. Weitzman (Dennis Boutsikaris) works with with patients in a sanitarium, and one day he convinces the administration to take one group of patients to a ballgame. But he stumbles into a crime in progress, and ends up in hospital. The group meanwhile, wander off individually into New York, forced to cope with an often more bizarre place than the sanitarium. The patients include sensible, but also easily stressed leader Billy Caufield (Michael Keaton), Henry Sikorsky (Cuckoo's Nest's Christopher Lloyd) wanting to be the authority and paying more attention to other peoples' behaviour than his own, Jack McDermott (Peter Boyle) who believes he is Christ, and Albert Ianuzzi (Stephen Furst) who never talks for himself and mainly imitates others speeches. Also starring Lorraine Bracco as Riley, Lizbeth MacKay as Henry's Wife and Olivia Horton as Henry's Daughter. In the end, the patients are the heroes when, after being arrested, they get their own way and get the real criminals, and get to see their ballgame. Very good!

Reviewed by hitchcockthelegend 8 / 10

I drove the moneylenders from the temple. I can handle a ten-spot.

The Dream Team is directed by Howard Zieff and written by John Connolly and David Loucka. It stars Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst and Lorraine Bracco. Music is by David McHugh and cinematography by Adam Holender.

Billy Caulfield (Keaton)-compulsive liar and prone to violent outbursts; Henry Sikorsky (Lloyd)-tidy freak who thinks he's a doctor; Jack McDermot (Boyle)-thinks he's Christ; Albert Ianuzzi (Furst)-near catatonic personality who can only speak in sports jargon.

There are people, and perhaps even that little old angel on your shoulder from time to time, that tell you that one shouldn't make fun of the afflicted; case in point folk with mental issues. So it be with this here amusing picture, a film that basically sees four odd balls let loose in New York as they try to find their missing doctor and foil the couple of dirty cops who want to silence said doctor for good. Yet Zieff's film is neither crass or stupid, the comedy is well drawn, with the characters themselves not the danger to society kind, but the misfit sort who are struggling to fit into said society. Looking in at it a bit deeper, film has valid points about acceptance, messages about understanding, friendships and collective group unity being powerful. Even the effects of work pressure is given a sardonic glance. It's not like the makers set out to offend, pic never even sails close to the wind, evidently they clearly set up to entertain and amuse, and that goal is achieved royally because The Dream Team is awfully funny.

Does Ed go out of the window? Let's have a show of hands. You can vote too, Ed. This is America.

It's a smart collection of actors playing the "afflicted" guys, four actors very comfortable with each other and enjoying the benefits of a strong script. Each one is handed great comedy moments to act out, neither left out and neither disappointing. Boyle arguably steals the film by way of some excellent visual comedy, but it's most likely Keaton's caustic observations and one line zingers that will leave the lasting impression. The final quarter gets a bit mechanical as the intrepid "nut buddies" finally bond and the film shifts to a basic chase/race against the clock affair, but the gags still come and you may find you are still laughing about something that was said earlier anyway! Bracco isn't given a lot to do, which practically renders this as being an ultimate buddy buddy guy flick, and the two "dirty" coppers played by James Remar and Philip Bosco are by the numbers villains. Small moans only, though, and in the name of good comedy, who cares really?

It's great to be young and insane! Hell Yeah. 8/10

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