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Howard Deutch directed this sequel to the The Odd Couple (1968), originally adapted from the 1965 Broadway comedy by Neil Simon. Thirty years later, Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) and retired sportswriter Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau) meet at LAX and drive a rental car across the desert to attend the wedding of Oscar's son Brucey (Jonathan Silverman) to Felix's daughter Hannah (Lisa Waltz), but a breakdown leaves them stranded at some distance from the main highways where they are sprayed by a
Apr 10, 1998 Wide
Oct 20, 1998
Paramount Home Video
All Critics (43) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (21) | DVD (2)
An afterthought, but fun to see Lemmon and Matthau again.
A big letdown. They waited 30 years to follow-up a classic comedy with this? Sadly, the final film Lemmon and Matthau did together is also the pair's weakest.
AKA Return of the Living Dead 4
Unfortunately--no offense, now--this is mainly a case of the Old Couple, given the mediocre direction of Howard Deutch and, mostly, the surprisingly bland script by Neil Simon.
One of Matthau and Lemmon's last films and still very funny
April 25, 2008Super Reviewer
Thirty years have passed since the original flick based on the Simon play, and Lemmon and Matthaw unite again, but something clearly is amiss in this tired story.
July 8, 2008
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