With two of the screen's best comedic actors, a script that crackles with wit and surprise, and perfectly tuned direction, My Fellow Americans scores a bull's-eye.

| Aug 7, 2019

My Fellow Americans certainly holds up after several presidential administrations but the film could definitely be better.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 22, 2019

The humor is clearly of the lowbrow variety, but Lemmon and Garner handle their lines with the conviction of Royal Shakespeare Company members tackling Macbeth.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 24, 2016

If My Fellow Americans had ever decided which movie it wanted to be, it might have been pretty good. As it is, the good half and the bad half all but cancel each other out.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 22, 2013

Using talent of this order on a script this weak, along with merely decorative appearances by the likes of Lauren Bacall and Wilford Brimley, amounts to the Hollywood equivalent of government waste.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 22, 2013

If only movies could be impeached.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 22, 2013

Mostly, My Fellow Americans is solidly written, offbeat entertainment well-served by the fine leads, clever casting of supporting roles and a script that holds together, even through a less-than-stellar finale.

| Oct 22, 2013

As political satire, My Fellow Americans makes a poor candidate.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 22, 2013

The surprise of this comedy... is how sharply written it is -- almost sharply enough to overcome the crude direction that grotesquely overemphasizes the picture's inevitable sentimental interludes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 22, 2013

Yes, it's Grumpy Old Presidents, in which most of the comedy comes from the supposed shock of hearing two senior citizens cursing at each other in terms Beavis and Butt-head would find inelegant.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 22, 2013

I'd cheerfully vote the writers, director and producers of My Fellow Americans out of office.

| Oct 22, 2013

Okay, so it's Midnight Run meets All The President's Men, but the Lemmon-Garner rapport is dynamite and the glittering support cast of Lauren Bacall, Dan Aykroyd and John Heard are given sparkling dialogue.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2013

The movie suggests we get the government we deserve, but do we really deserve this movie?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 22, 2013

It takes a special actor's grace to survive a script as lame as My Fellow Americans, and James Garner has it. Without appearing to break a sweat, Garner makes each grotesquely desperate attempt at humor look smooth and assured.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 22, 2013

An appalling piece of junk.

| Oct 22, 2013

Peter Segal's comedy has a few witty moments surrounded by a lot of silliness.

| Oct 22, 2013

Garner and Jack Lemmon have enough charisma, and there are enough solid laughs, to mostly overcome My Fellow Americans' embarrassing moments and improbable ending.

| Oct 22, 2013

Enthusiastic as one might be that Jack Lemmon has found a new lease on movie life with his Grumpy Old Men series, the funny-crankpots genre wears mighty thin on this road trip.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 27, 2005

Strained and obvious political comedy that wastes some really great actors.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2005