Keaton’s Comedy
As Keaton was a controversial figure in the casting of Batman, which we’ve covered in a JoBlo Original, he had one last comedy that was released just before the iconic superhero film from Tim Burton. It would even be released the same year in 1989, and that movie is The Dream Team. This is the kind of movie that the actor was primarily known for, and had Batman not become the cultural milestone that it was, Keaton’s career might not have veered into other genres.
Break out
The Dream Team is an ensemble movie directed by Howard Zieff and Keaton is joined by Christopher Lloyd, who also had Back to the Future Part II released that year, as well as Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst and Lorraine Bracco. Blu-ray.com is now reporting that Kino Lorber is releasing The Dream Team on a new Blu-ray disc that features a 4K restoration of the movie. To clarify, it will be a normal Blu-ray and not a 4K Blu-ray, despite the film itself being restored in UHD.
The description reads,
“Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job. NEW 4K RESTORATION BY UNIVERSAL.“
The new physical media release hasn’t had much announced in extra features, but the technical specs read,
- Video
Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1 - Audio
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 - Subtitles
English SDH - Discs
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD-50) - Playback
2K Blu-ray: Region A (B, C untested)
Other Keaton recommendations
We love us some Michael Keaton here at JoBlo and we love recommending some of his other works that some people may not have seen. Check out our Top 10 List of Michael Keaton Movies That Aren’t Beetlejuice or Batman. In the list, we highly think you should check out films like The Dream Team, but also the absolutely hilarious Amy Heckerling gangster satire Johnny Dangerously, which has a Zucker Brothers-esque humor to it.
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