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Odd Couple 2 [1997]
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On the DVD: The Odd Couple 2 on disc has no extras apart from the original theatrical trailer. The film is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen with a Dolby Digital Surround soundtrack. It looks and sounds good. Alan Silvestri's score borrows the Neal Hefti theme from the 1967 original from time to time. --Piers Ford
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
Sequels might be the lifeblood of mainstream Hollywood film production but it took 30 years for The Odd Couple 2 to reunite Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and writer Neil Simon for a follow-up to their scintillating 1967 success. Now Felix (Lemmon) and Oscar (Matthau), once mismatched flatmates, are forced to renew their old friendship when their respective children get married. Cue all the ingredients for a disaster-riddled journey to California for the wedding: lost luggage, allergies, dangerously wanton women (and their husbands), illegal immigrants and repeat visits to the same police station. All the old irritations rise quickly to the surface, Simon's dialogue is as sharp as ever and the vocal sparring skills of these two magnificent comedy players are undiminished, though there's a certain poignancy in their physical frailty: "I'm too old to hit but I could spit you to death", threatens Matthau at one point. Crumpled and puffy, neither of them looks in great shape. But the film gives a neat symmetry to two of the finest cinematic careers. As Matthau says towards the end, it's "the biggest goddamndest déjà vu anyone's ever had".
SO, SO CLOSE!
Review date: 2006-02-01 Rating: 6 out of 10
The Odd Couple (the first one), has to be, in my book, and countless others too, the funniest film ever made. So, naturally, I bought the 2nd one.
Walter Matthau couldn't be anything but funny. He only has to be there to be funny and The Odd Couple 2 is no exception. He is brilliant.
But Jack Lemmon?
And Neil Simon?
Well, lets face it, Jack Lemmon has grown old ungracefully. He has a whole new array of virgin white teeth which makes him look unusually youthful around the lower jaw. This doesn't fit in with the rest of him. He is visibly not at ease making a film about being in one's dotage; maybe he prefers to be remembered as the sprightly Daphne in Some Like It Hot and the fabulously neurotic Felix in The Odd Couple 1.
And Neil Simon? Well, he has made the COLOSSAL mistake of writing into Felix's script the F word on 2 occasions. This is so totally out of place that it literally beggars belief how Simon could even come close to thinking that swearing was necessary. It goes a very miserable way to almost totally ruining the film.
Some of the old magic was there but you had to struggle to see it in the script and in in Lemmon.
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Reviews
too funny
Review date: 2005-11-17 Rating: 10 out of 10
both walter and jack are true legends. and it truly shows after you have watched it.
this has to be one of the best materials they both have stared in. classic and full of jokes.
A highly disappointing and sorry sequel to a true classic
Review date: 2004-06-30 Rating: 2 out of 10
I am just astonished at the rave reviews of other people for this film!! As much as I absolutely loved Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and the classic original film, "The Odd Couple", which is one of my personal top-ten all-time favourite films, I don't like this would-be sequel. After adoring the original film for years, I rejoiced when I learned there was to be a sequel. However, they really should not have even bothered. What a shameful waste of the combined talents of Lemmon and Matthau!! This film just absolutely and completely lacks everything that made the original so wonderful. The original classic was suitable for all audiences, had no strong four-letter words or any other objectionable content. This film is peppered throughout with profanity that was unknown in the original film. It just goes to prove that you don't need it in order to make a great and truly wonderful film. Even the combined dynamic chemistry of the two great leads cannot overcome a poor script. After thirty years of waiting for a sequel, couldn't they have given us a better film?
Fantastic - pity they dont make more like these
Review date: 2002-09-26 Rating: 10 out of 10
I thoroughly enjoyed this film. It was hilarious, well acted and had a good story. The chemistry between Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon is a joy to behold. I've watched it over and over again and it still makes me laugh. It is a very underated movie and takes some beating in enthrallment factor.
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau reluctantly meet up again after many years apart to attend the wedding of their respective son and daughter. A hilarius journey ensues with the old enemies getting lost, losing Jack Lemmon's suitcase and being arrested before they finally reach their destination.
It is full of little sub plots which make for an extremely entertaining film. This is a definite buy.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Barnard Hughes
Walter Matthau
Jonathan Silverman
Christine Baranski
Jack Lemmon
Creators:
Jack Lemmon (Primary Contributor)
Walter Matthau (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
EAN: 5014437818034
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL,
Release date: 2002-09-02
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 92 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1997
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