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The Dream Team (1989)
Rate:
7
Viewed:
6/25
6/25:
Fans of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest might want to
check out The Dream Team.
Seemingly a remake from the get-go, it goes in a different direction with a doctor taking four mental patients
from Trenton, New Jersey, to a baseball game in New York City, but trouble begins when the doctor is sent to
the hospital, leaving the rest to fend for themselves. That's when the movie takes off.
Michael Keaton is a natural leader and shows why he was a strong actor back then. Of the aforementioned film,
Christopher Lloyd returns and has the most experience of playing a mental patient. They say he's a paranoid
schizophrenic. No way; what he got is extreme OCD. Either way, he sure fooled me as a doctor at the beginning.
As a result, both of them turn in the best performances. Peter Boyle and Stephen Furst round out the rest.
Although the writing is weak and there aren't many laugh-out moments, The Dream Team should be viewed
as a situational comedy picture. That's when Michael Keaton and Christopher Lloyd shine the most. By the way,
the former correctly predicted a movie when he said, "We're directly under the Hudson River now. Yeah.
You guys see those tiles up there, all those individual tiles? Hey, Doc, isn't it true that if even one of
those tiles were to come loose, millions and millions of gallons of water would come pouring down on us
and squash us like tiny little bugs?", and that became the basis of Daylight.
All in all, good story plus Michael Keaton and Christopher Lloyd equal a winning comedy in
The Dream Team.