GOLDEN OLDIE 33: The Dream Team

 

Last night I decided to take a break from Leaphorn and Chee and watch a movie, to add to my Golden Oldie sequence.  I hit on an Oldie that maybe isn’t exactly Golden, but is fun just the same.  Its name has been lurking around the edge of my increasingly leaky brain for some time.  This is because my favorite on-line geology instructor, Nick Zentner, has for some months been referring to a group of geologists bent on deciphering the mysteries of the Cascade Crystalline Core (the terribly complicated rock exposures along parts of WA State 20, the road that runs through the North Cascades National Park.)  All I can say (to Nick’s Dream Team) is LOL.  It was outcrops like the North Cascades Crystalline Core that made me give up honest rock-based geology and take up theoretical geophysics!

But, the original (cinematic) Dream Team consisted of four lunatics released from their asylum under highly improbable circumstances.  It was directed by Howard Zieff (of whom I know nothing) and released in 1989.  Miraculously, the critics didn’t exactly hate it.  The star is Michael Keaton, who does a creditable job of portraying Jack Nicolson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  He is really good; wonder what happened to him.  Christopher Lloyd is excellent as a psychiatrist wannabe obsessed with order, and Peter Boyle is very funny as an advertising executive who REALLY got religion.  The other characters are good, too. 

Thumb nail:  The Dream Team is a harmless, amusing way to waste an evening.  Not quite Casablanca, but worthwhile.  B-