As an ex-mental patient, I’ve got to call bullshit on The Dream Team, a light buddy comedy twist on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Nest that wastes a terrific cast and conceit.
Read MoreReal life brothers Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez are garbagemen who discover a dead body in 1990’s Men at Work, a trash fire of a lowbrow comedy distinguished only by Keith David’s scene-stealing turn as a Vietnam vet with a “hilarious” case of PTSD.
Read MoreLovable Losers/Bad With Money Month gets off to a bit of a sleepy start with a look at Michael Ritchie’s muddled 1983 survivalist satire The Survivors, with Walter Matthau as a lovable everyman and Robin Williams as a right-wing gun nut/militia member. Its problems include casting Robin Williams as a right wing gun nut/militia member.
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