Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Uriah43 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.

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.

anchoreddown Out of no-where at Best Buy I found this movie. Liking all four of the actors that play the characters in the nut house, I bought it.You basically have the baseball nut who can't talk, the imaginative one who can fib just about anyone, the doctor who is extremely tightly and the Son of God who walks around the institution naked.Put these four together and you get a riot of laughs.Personally, Christopher Lloyd and Michael Keaton are the funniest.Peter Boyle alone can take the show, no doubt. One of his funnier scenes is when he starts taking his clothes off in front of a church congregation AND thankfully was escorted out before he could finish.Stephen Furst I haven't seen as much and I have NOT seen Animal House yet. However I did see him in Midnight Madness and thought he did a good job.for comedy at its best and for something completely random, like Monty Python is, this is the movie for you

michael-wollman This is a film that had the right elements,but a comedy about supposed mental patients is very difficult to pull off without it being insulting-this wasn't insulting-it just wasn't interesting, realistic, and for the exception of Michael Keaton, no one here was funny. Michael Keaton is great star who deserves a strong comeback.The story is about patients from a mental home who are on an outing, when their psychiatrist in charge is harmed after witnessing a murder, and the patients are left on their own. They ultimately discover the doctors situation, and must protect him from those still trying to kill him. Meanwhile authoroties are looking for them as suspects. If the plot seems dumb-well..it is. But humor and good writing can overcome that. This fails on every level except the acting-though Michael Keaton is the standout. Not even worth a DVD rental.