Neil Simon's The Odd Couple II

1998

Howard Deutch

Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Christine Baranski, Barnard Hughes ...

5.6

2,500

Comedy

Comedy

It has been seventeen years now since Oscar and Felix saw each other for the last time. Oscar is living in Florida, Felix in New York. One day, Oscar is called by his son Brucey who invites him to his wedding to Felix' daughter Hannah next Sunday in California. Oscar and Felix meet again at Los Angeles International Airport and take a rental car in order to go to San Malina for the wedding. The trip develops into an odyssey, starting ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Mike Clark USA Today	"If that familiar jaunty theme music sends a rush through your body like a Geritol-and-prune-juice cocktail, then shrug off critical reservations and see 'The Odd Couple II'."
		Xan Brooks The Independent	"The two stars work hard to keep it upright."
		Andrea Beach Common Sense Media	"Flat reunion comedy won't appeal to kids."
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The movie slogs on and on, Matthau and Lemmon gamely delivering lines that may contain mechanical wit, but no impulse or dramatic purpose. (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Andrew Collins Empire	"Sadly this is as unfunny as it is unnecessary, despite the reunion of the great Matthau and Lemmon (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Joe Leydon Variety	"This long overdue sequel to the smash hit 1968 feature version of Simon's Broadway comedy offers too little, too late to generate much enthusiasm."
		Time Out	"An entertaining oldie road movie, with the humour hotting up in the desert where the pair inflict multiple fractures on the long arm of the law."
		Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"Deutch's sequel takes the gritty NYC bite out of these two, and replaces it with toothless comic pratfalls and little else. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

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