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

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

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | 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

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

Mr. Lemmon and Mr. Garner are such pros that they carry the movie smoothly over its dull patches.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2003

Not every joke works; some clunkers don't even come close. But just when you start to give up on it, the film comes back with a whopper that produces roars of laughter.

| Nov 6, 2002

Shameless laughs flow off the prefab assembly line with sufficient regularity to please audiences with a taste for comfortable tradition spiced with a bit of contempo naughtiness.

Full Review | Feb 14, 2001

A gang-written comedy that doesn't have a political bone in its body, or much evidence of a funny one, either.

| Feb 14, 2001

A pleasing but mediocre film, with a great cast, a great story and a misguided script.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

This is not a great comedy and will be soon forgotten, but it has nice moments.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A very bad, uninspired comedy with slight leanings toward self-importance.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Pardons for Lemmon and Garner, but none for the filmmakers.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000