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Odd Couple 2 [VHS]

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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.

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

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!

What a disappointment. Watching Matthau and Lemmon struggle so hard to make this clanker enjoyable was nothing less than depressing. Part of the enjoyment of the first Odd Couple was the clash of personalities between Felix's anal retentive, obsessive/compulsion and Oscar's boorish impatience. This film hardly touches upon that struggle and, instead, becomes a watered-down version of one of the Grumpy Old Men movies. In fact, this movie seems like a compilation of other Neil Simon movies. When Felix and Oscar get lost in the Californian desert, it's "The Out of Towners", except in reverse. When Oscar's son gets cold feet on his wedding day and camps out on the roof, it's like "Plaza Suite."

Also the use of the F-word and of middle fingers just makes the movie seem all that much more desperate for laughs. Lastly, the Florida/California milieu is just inappropriate for these two neurotic but iconic New Yorkers.

No matter how many times I watch this movie and already know what's coming - I crack up laughing. These guys are at their best as they grumble and complain from one scrape to another while they work their way cross country to a wedding of their children. I think this is the best one Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon have done together.

this movie is hilarous. jack lemmon and walter matthou are so funny together. the movie is great. the product is by far a 5 out of 5 movie.

hm. where to begin. i'll start with the gripes. this movie came out 19 years after the original , which was probably 15 years too late. both actors are obviously aged, simon has lemmon drop two f - bombs, which i've always found sad when an actor has aged and everyone thinks its funny if he/she can 'shock' us.
anything else ? no , not really.
Now let's see what i found to enjoy about this film, and that would be every wonderful scene. its true that everyone has aged and its no longer 1969, but simon's script is wonderful and funny as hell, and matthau and lemmon still maintain the great comic timing that made them household names. The story is slight, the visits to the sheriff perhaps a bit overdone, but there is a lot to reccommend this comedy. For one thing, I watched it tonight with several other people and we LAUGHED. Matthau especially was born for broad comic delivery and very New York accents and dead-on delivery. His throwaways are better than most screen lines nowadays!
And of course there is a bit of wistfulness about watching these two comic greats work together for the last time (three if you count Simon, and we have to count Simon - he's writing lines funnier than ever, even if he does lean on the lamentable f- bomb a few times. ) I got this film super cheap and it sits right next to its funnier predecessor; maybe not a precise complement, but a terrific way to spend a rainy evening with a big bowl of popcorn.

The Odd Couple II came close to beating the quality of the first movie. Though it did remind me of the "Grumpy Old Men" movies, they fell into the old roles of Felix and Oscar. Now that we've lost Mr. Matthau, this movie will become an American Treasure!

Well they are back. Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in another film together that shows how great they work together and what great comes from it as a result. And sadly, Odd Couple 2 is the last film for this dynamic duo due to Matthau's death in July of 2000. This film picks up 30 years after the original. Felix is living in NYC and Oscar in Florida, the two havent seen eachother in 17 years. But they are brought back together when Oscar's(Matthau)son is getting married to Felix's(Lemmon)daughter. They meet up at the L.A. airport to take a road trip up to where they live. Many mishaps during their trip cause for a delay of gettting their and lots of comedic fun. This film isnt the duos best, but it certainly is very good. I have never seen the 1st one and if you want to see this, u dont have to see the original. All you have to know is that Oscar Madison is a slob and Felix Unger is a neat and paranoid. And of course that they used to live together. If you are a fan of either one of these stars of them both as a duo, this is a must see. Its sad that this is their last film together. If you liked this and/or want to see anyother of their films together i would defintly reccomend Grumpy and Grumpier Old Men, and Out To Sea. Rated PG-13 for language.

The first 30 minutes or so are so funny. I almost choked on peanuts while watching this. I rarely buy videos but this one I have to have.