Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

monlyn75 I actually love this movie. I used to watch it over and over, back in the old satellite days, lol. The concept and storyline aren't ones that have been remade time and time again. When I still use quotes today from a film I first watched over 25 years ago, it's a good one! Michael Keaton and Peter Boyle are especially hilarious in this. If you like Michael Keaton in his goofier roles, you'll enjoy this one immensely.

SnoopyStyle Billy Caufield (Michael Keaton) is a delusional writer with anger issues. Henry Sikorsky (Christopher Lloyd) avoids his family and pretends to be a doctor. Jack McDermott (Peter Boyle) is the religious former ad exec who likes to walk around naked. Albert Ianuzzi (Stephen Furst) has trouble communicating. Dr. Weitzman (Dennis Boutsikaris) is treating them at Cedarbrook Hospital. He takes them on a field trip to the Yankees game. Albert pretends to pee and makes a run for it. Weitzman goes looking for him and stumbles upon a murder. He is knocked unconscious and hospitalized while his patients are left on their own. Billy reconnects with girlfriend Riley (Lorraine Bracco). The guys discover that two corrupt cops (Philip Bosco, James Remar) are trying to kill Weitzman but nobody believes the four runaway mental patients.The four leads are a fun group of comedic actors. This is set up for a hilarious irreverent road trip. It doesn't always come together but there is some fun to be had. The writing is not that sharp but the guys are able to pull out a few laughs. After Weitzman is taken to the hospital, the guys split up for about fifteen minutes. That's not the best idea since building up their fun chemistry is half the battle. The cast's full potential is never fully realized.

Robert J. Maxwell I wanted to get with this one, really I did, if only because the cast sounded so promising -- Peter Boyle as a religious fanatic, Michael Keaton as a psychopath, Christopher Loyd as an up-tight obsessive-compulsive, Milo O'Shea as the head honcho of the private psychiatric hospital they escape from, Lorraine Bracco as the ex-girl friend that Keaton improbably encounters in the Bronx.However, it just didn't work. It's as if someone in Hollywood, flourishing his MBA diploma, said to someone else, also an MBA, "You remember that scene from 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' where Jack Nicholson takes these goofballs on an unethical fishing trip? Wowed the critics and the audiences, didn't it? And made more money than the GNP of half a dozen third-world countries combined? Let's take that episode, dump Nicholson, and make a whole major motion picture out of it." The second reason it didn't work for me is that, if there was little originality in the story, there seemed to be practically none in the gags and comic situations written into it. Peter Boyle wandering the streets of New York enters a church full of bouncing, singing African-Americans, gets the spirit, leaps to the stage and begins a confession of all his sins (none of them particularly noteworthy) while stripping off his clothes item by item. When the writers have one of the male stars begin stripping in a public place, it's always a sign of desperation -- "Scarecrow," "Slap Shot," "Sea of Love." It's not a sign of psychosis but of flagging inspiration.Finally, and this is less important, the four patients in the dream team don't really jibe with reality. The majority of psychiatric inpatients are schizophrenic and they're not at all funny. They don't make wisecracks, they're not expressive, and they're so conversationally clumsy that they don't make friends easily. They're emotions are flat. They're unengaging and just about socially bankrupt. Here, they just have viewer-friendly quirks.None of that stuff matters much. You can turn mental illness (or just about anything else) into a joke if the joke is successful, but this attempt fails.

Lee Eisenberg It's good to know that some movies are just big excuses to be goofy. "The Dream Team" is one such example. We get introduced to four mental patients: Billy Caulfield (Michael Keaton) is actually close to normal, Henry Sikorsky (Christopher Lloyd) believes himself to be a doctor, Jack McDermott (Peter Boyle) believes that he's talking to Jesus, and Albert Ianuzzi (Stephen Furst (yes, Flounder from "Animal House"!)) barely does anything. When their psychiatrist takes them to New York, he gets attacked by the mafia and the four patients are left to fend for themselves. From there, it's basically two hours of everyone being as loony as possible. Probably the best scene is the box scene; I nearly died laughing when that scene came up.Anyway, this just goes to show what one can do for comedy. It's not to be missed. Also starring Dennis Boutsikaris and Lorraine Bracco.