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The Dream Team

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The Dream Team is just another one of those killer comedies that no one went to see when it was originally released, but has now found a nice following on home video. I actually saw the film in theaters and thought it was hands down the funniest movie of the year!

First you have a great comedy ensemble who also can play drama just as effectively. Michael Keaton is Billy Caufield ("I'm an escaped mental patient with a history of violence"), Christopher Lloyd is Henry Sikorsky, an overly organized person ("Why don't we bring this up in group? Or maybe we should just hug?"), Peter Boyle is Jack McDermott who has a Messiah complex ("Arise and walk, my son"), & Stephen Furst is Albert Ianuzzi, who only speaks in TV ads and baseball jargon ("Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee").

If you don't already know by now, these guys are four mental patients, whose doctor, played by Dennis Boutsikaris ("One more afternoon in the rec room and I'm gonna have to go on Thorazine myself"), decides to take them to a baseball game in New York. Only things don't go as planned, as the good doctor ends up getting knocked unconscious and whisked away to a hospital, leaving his patients all alone on the streets of New York City. And the comedy ensues! As the gang tries to figure out a way to find their doctor, they end up finding "themselves" in the process. Add Lorraine Bracco (of "Goodfellas" and "The Sopranos" fame) as Keaton's girlfriend ("So am I walking home with an escaped mental patient or what?") and you know you're set to have a good time.

What makes the film memorable is that it has the perfect blend of laugh outloud humor ("We're a special combat unit with the United States Marine Corps and we've been tracking some Libyan terrorists. In fact I think we've got 'em trailed to a bagel shop around the corner.") combined with some tender dramatic moments, that work together seamlessly.

The DVD is your typical standard DVD. No extras, other than the original theatrical trailer. Happily the film is presented in Anamorphic Widescreen in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1, which looks pretty good. A little dark in some spots, but not too much to complain about.

So if you're looking for a comedy that's full of great laughs as well as a good story with some dramatic moments thrown in for good measure, pick up The Dream Team today. It's the sanest choice to make!

The Dream Team - a very funny movie.

Henry - "We're directly under the Hudson River now".

Billy - "Yeah. You guys see those tiles up there, all those individual tiles? Doc, isn't true that if even one of those tiles were to come loose, like millions and millions of gallons of water would come pouring down on us and crush us like tiny little bugs? (pauses) Is that a leak up there? You see those tiles? They're leakin' water! Oh, my God!"

Jack - "I will hold back the waters".

Billy - "Thanks, Jack".

A side-splitting comedy about four mental patients: Michael Keaton as a habitual liar who has violent tendencies, Christopher Lloyd as an obsessive-compulsive who thinks he runs the hospital, Peter Boyle as a former advertising executive with a messiah complex who likes to take his clothes off, and Stephen Furst as catatonic couch potato. Against the wishes of the hospital administration, their compassionate doctor takes the four patients to New York City to watch a major league baseball game. When the van reaches the city, the doctor has to exit the van - with patients still inside - only to witness a murder committed by two corrupt cops. The doctor is attacked by the cops, leaving him hospitalized and unable to help his patients. The patients then find themselves framed for the murder. Now the patients have to not only act "sane" to prove their innocence, they also have to save the life of their doctor who is still a target of the two cops.

What makes this movie work is the relationship of the patients. It is so much fun watching Keaton, Lloyd, and Boyle bicker all the time about the littlest things. Boyle has a really funny scene in which he leaves the van while Lloyd tries to block him. Boyle then muscles his way past Lloyd, tells him that He shall have no false gods before Him, and finally he tells Lloyd to get out his way before calling him a seven-letter word. There might only be so much you can do with a catatonic character, but Furst is quite memorable. Even though the doctor must have the patience of a saint when dealing with them, he probably has a harder time suppressing a laugh. Quite simply, this is a movie that gets better every time you watch it.

This story is a creative, hilarious story about 4 insane men loose in NYC, trying to solve a crime. They find that they can behave in a relitively sane manner and they learn how to work as a group. It is extremely funny. A must see!

This is the sort of movie you can see a hundred times without getting bored. Four 'lunatics' try to track down their psychiatrist after he has been mugged. Hampered by their own mental problems and a society which is less than understanding they manage to find him and protect him from two corrupt policemen. A good script is further enhanced by excellent team-work from the actors includig Michael Keaton, Christopher Loyd, Stephen Furst and Peter Boyle. At theend of the movie you truly begin to wonder who is really crazy: the four nutcases, or the society around them.

I watched this movie yeas ago, then I watched it yesterday. It's funnier, now that I'm a little older and my tastes have changed some.

What strikes me about this movie is the above average cast. Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle and Stephen Furst are each in their own right, super. Together, this would have been a movie to mark their careers if they hadn't each already done that.

The comedy is just great, but the leaps of, well, sanity, are the most touching parts of this movie. You pull for the crazies, that's always a bonus. Enjoy a good laugh and tell more people about this movie, so they can enjoy it too.

This movie is hilarious. Michael Keaton, Peter Boyle, and Christopher Lloyd all give career comedy perfomances. The whole idea of four totally crazy psychiatric patients roaming the streets of New York looking for their doctor is great. Michael Keaton is perfect as the leader of the group who's view of reality is way off. Peter Boyle is great as the former executive Jesus Christ messiah. Christopher Lloyd's character (the patient who thinks he's a doctor) adds the perfect spice to the movie to make a great two hour film. I can't wait until the DVD comes out.

One of the movies I remember seing in the theater back in 1989, just a great comedy then, and even better now that I have it on DVD. This is a movie about a Group of 4 men that are inpatients at a state hospital that are in the same therapy group. Their young doctor has been trying to blaze a new trail in their treatment, stopping all of their drugs and doing strickly therapy. Unfortunatly, its been going slow. As a booster, he has plans to take the group to a Yankees Game on a supervised pass. And yes, they get aproval. Unfortunately, the plan didn't go as expected. The Doctor disappears while taking his patient to find a restroom. Unfortunatley, the patient is a semi-cataonic schizophrenic that only speaks as a TV brodcast or in baseball terms. He is the only witness to where the doctor went. So we are left with 4 psych patient in the big city, and no supervision. Well, I don't want to wreck the movie if you haven't seen it, although this was a staple of TBS, WGN and other cable channels, but let say that they stuggle through many different challenges, including police conspiracy and murder charges and some how come out clean. They all even get to face their past demons and gain theraputic insight as well. A classic movie, and a unique one as well. Highly recommend this movie.

This movie definitely goes down as one of my all-time favorites as far as a comedy goes. From Michael Keaton in his skin tight awesome 80s Springsteen jeans to Christopher Lloyd's walking around with a lab coat on and a clipboard saying " I want you to know this is all going on my report." Its always the small things that you sometimes won't even notice until you watch a movie for the second or third time that really make you laugh. I think that compulsive liars are some of the funniest people in the world, and having Michael Keaton play one is perfect.
Not too many movies have come out recently that will really make you laugh (besides dumb and dumber and a few others) but just the way people dress in this movie will make you laugh, and the acting is hilarious.

I used to watch this movie as a child, and I love it as much now, as I did then. The cast of characters are the reason that this movie is so great

This is a very funny movie and very enjoyable. This will make you laugh and do we all ever need to.