Product Details

• Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Richard Riehle, Jonathan Silverman, Lisa Waltz
• Directors: Howard Deutch
• Writers: Neil Simon
• Producers: David Madden, Elena Spiotta, Neil Simon, Robert W. Cort
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Language: English, Spanish
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: July 6, 1999
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305099081
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,155 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Mike Nichols directed the 1965 stage production of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, but while Nichols went on to become a vitally intelligent director of contemporary comedy, Simon's career thrived in the 1970s and '80s before dwindling towards sentimental fluff like this amusing but mildly disappointing sequel. Closer to Grumpy Old Men than the wry wit of Simon's original play and 1968 screen adaptation, the movie finds former roommates Oscar (Walter Matthau) and Felix (Jack Lemmon) reluctantly reuniting for the wedding of Oscar's son to Felix's daughter. When they get sidetracked in California, the road-movie formula unleashes the comedic chemistry of Lemmon and Matthau (which alone makes the movie worthwhile), but it's too casual to match the original's depth or dramatic foundation. Simon and Grumpy director Howard Deutch could have deepened the Oscar-Felix relationship to make it funnier and more emotionally involving, but instead they've played it safe with some good laughs in the kind of sketch comedy that Nichols would avoid. Simon's capable of much better than this, but Lemmon-Matthau fans will have a good time anyway. --Jeff Shannon

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oscar and Felix are Back, June 13, 2004

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Julie A Ross (Pleasant Hill, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Odd Couple II (DVD)

Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, two comedy greats, pair up again in this hilarious film. In The Odd Couple II, it has been 17 years since Oscar and Felix last saw each other. They are reunited to go to their children's wedding. Along the way they get arrested three times, encounter two lovely ladies Thelma and Holly, and get on each other's nerves no end. After making such a hit as Odd Couple, making a sequel was risky business, but Walter and Jack pulled it off! Sadly it would be their last film together.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau have done it again!, July 2, 2000

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Geraldine A. Carter - See all my reviews

This review is from: Neil Simon's The Odd Couple II [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau team up again in this teriffic comedy as the infamous Odd Couple.After being away from each other for seventeen years, Oscar Madison (Matthau) and Felix Unger (Lemmon)meet again,this time to travel to the wedding of Oscar's son and Felix's daughter. On the way they encounter tons of crazy characters and situations,after losing Felix's expensive suitcase-along with their map-and forgetting the name of the town they are driving to! This hilarious road trip is a great display of the famous team of Lemmon and Matthau

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just so Funny!!!, December 16, 2004

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H. A. Hinrichs (Frankfurt, Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Odd Couple II (DVD)

What can you say about these two? FUNNY!!!! I could hardly catch my breath because I was laughing so hard. True, II was not the same as the original. You also really don't get the flavor of messy-man verses neat-noid-man, but just the fact they are stuck with one another again and they keep getting in these absolutely ridiculous situations is just to good to pass up. You want to laugh? Then get this movie!