My Fellow Americans

Basically Grumpy Old Men (1993) get elected to the White House, this comedy gets the funny parts down just right and features picture-perfect casting in the form of James Garner and Jack Lemmon. There's even some nifty political parody going on here in the form of Garner's JFK-style womanizing and Lemmon's Reagan-esque speaking fees. The two stars bicker and scrap effectively, which is the story's real point, but unfortunately the crisis that has sent them scrambling incognito across America isn't convincing at all. Dan Aykroyd blusters and huffs as their Commander-in-Chief nemesis, but the idea that the current president would try to assassinate two former heads of state isn't very funny or realistic. My Fellow Americans (1996) fulfills its basic requirement of being entertaining but it would have been a better story if its villains had been better conceived and executed. Co-writer Peter Tolan would go on to collaborate with Billy Crystal on Analyze This (1999) and America's Sweethearts (2001). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide