On the way to a baseball game, sanitarium patients get stranded in New York City after their chaperone is hospitalized and they're being pursued by criminals. The Dream Team is a 1989 comedy starring Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst, Lorraine Bracco and Dennis Boutsikaris. This movie caught me by surprise not only it was hilarious and touching but you also have this 4 different types of people one hardly talks, the other one thinks is a doctor, then the next one thinks is god and finally Keaton has anger issues all 4 men give outstanding performances and honestly everyone did what they had to do nicely. Movies such as this are the reason why 80's were so awesome real funny lines not jokes about farts and adult language every 5 minutes or even nudity. This is a smart comedy just think of it as One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest but only funnier. I give it a 10 out of 10 of course!!!

It's been 3 weeks since 4 mental patients were taken off of their medication and the psychiatrist in charge of them has decided that it would be good therapy to take them into nearby New York City to see a Yankees baseball game. What he doesn't count on is being assaulted in an alley for witnessing a crime and being taken to a local hospital there while his 4 mental patients are left to their own devices. Neither does he realize that these 4 clinically insane individuals are all that stands between him and some rogue cops who are determined to tie up any and all loose ends by killing him. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie I will just say that this turned out to be a decent comedy all things considered. Although I was somewhat disappointed with the performance of Michael Keaton (as "Billy Caufield") he still managed to contribute some comic relief here and there so I suppose his talent wasn't totally wasted. On the other hand, I thought Stephen Furst (as "Albert Ianuzzi") was absolutely hilarious and in my opinion he essentially stole the show. In any case, despite its uneven nature I happened to like this movie and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.

Mike is a tad delusional. Harry believes he's a doctor. Jack is an ad executive who believes Jesus is speaking to him. Albert is an adult who occasionally wets himself. When they are taken to a ball game by Dr. Weitzman they witness a murder and Weitzman is attacked and hospitalised. The four crazies find that Weitzman will be murdered as a witness and no one believes four mental patients. They have to both use and overcome their delusions in order to save the only decent doctor who is treating them, with both the police and the killers looking for them....I was Thirteen the first time i saw this movie, and i instantly fell in love with it. Having not seen in in nearly 17 years, i was very worried that one of my favourite movies as a child would not have the same effect now, than it did in 1992.Although it has dated quite a bit, it is still laugh out loud funny, and quite surprisingly touching in place. Understandably, the best parts of the film are when the four are bickering. It's consistently funny, and the lines are funny and never fail to raise a smile.Keaton is in full on wacko mode in this, and is probably one of his best forgotten roles. Lloyd can play straight and yet be hilarious, but carries the films most humanistic element. If the scene where he visits his wife and daughter doesn't bring a lump in your throat, you need your brain checking.it's a very sunshine orientated movies, with lots of quotable lines, and if you are feeling down, this is the sort of film you want to watch to brighten your day.it's very easy to watch, goes along quite breezily, and most importantly, never gets boring.highly recommended.plus Keaton has an amazing mullet.

It pains me to see a movie where the characters- and the actors playing them more than anything- have more potential than the actual story. Watching it I'm reminded a little of a movie that came out also in 1989 or sometime around then called See No Evil, Hear No Evil with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. In it one is blind and one is deaf, and all through the picture Pryor and Wilder are never unconvincing in their parts, and even garner some big-to-small laughs. But the story is a clunker, a kind of 'gee-wiz' thriller that knocks their characters into stereotypical boxes that the actors then have to fight their way out of. The Dream Team has the main characters- a quick-fuse (Michael Keaton), an obsessive compulsive (Christopher Lloyd), a Jesus-delusional (Peter Boyle), and a common near-catatonic type (Stephen Furst)- set loose in New York City after their doctor, who's taking them out for a day out of the mental hospital to go to a Yankee game, gets knocked unconscious by a couple of cops in an alley. From there the characters are put into a kind of crux because a) they're stuck in the thin plot line of the cops being crooked and covering up a crime/needing to bump off the doctor, and b) the patients then got to help save their van and their doctor before anything worse happens.Now this doesn't mean there aren't some spots open for some good comedic touches, and a good few of them come out of Boyle's religious-nut character (one scene I thought was great was when he steps into a black baptist type service and until a certain point doesn't seem any crazier than the rest of the attendees), plus with a great heap-load of Jack Nicholson ala Cuckoo's Nest type attitude in Keaton's performance. But then the plot comes around again, reeling them into a clockwork fixture that keeps more interesting things from happening. While it doesn't stick well to suggest this as it's a late 80s style comedy (with the typical musical score with it, if you hear it you'll know that it sounds like any other score from the Hollywood comedy of the period), I wondered what would happen if the doctor getting knocked out was more random, or even if it was more severe, then there would be chances for a different kind of story, where the four of them would have to be left to their own devices, and see what would happen. There are hints of that, actually, but it doesn't really come to pass. In fact the filmmakers even try to throw in some touching moments or stuff to sort of wrap-around that the patients (even Furst's hard-to-talk character) are getting 'better', whatever that means in the loose context of a comedy-thriller. There is one that does work, where Lloyd goes to visit his family, and it actually rings true. But another supporting character of importance to the four, played by Lorraine Bracco, is almost a foil in the scheme of the picture. The ending, too, seems like a very cheesy stretch.Yet through all of this I kept on watching it, because I liked seeing the actors filling these roles splendidly, almost in spite of the script. It's probably a lot of fun, if not necessarily a challenge, to play a crazy person, and it doesn't seem like at all like the actors (Lloyd the exception) possibly observed or were around mental patients in preparation for the roles, unlike with 'Cuckoo's Nest'. They could've had more to work with in a better screenplay or stronger comedic direction, and because of it it's only memorable for little bits and pieces. Then again, that might be expected from the guy who directed My Girl and My Girl 2, and a remake of Unfaithfully Yours.