Rating: 
Summary: This film really shouldn't have worked this well
Review: Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon were outstanding, veteran comic actors by the time this film was made. Their presence guaranteed some level of quality and success. Add Burgess Meredith and the still-lovely Ann-Margret, and you have plenty of ingredients to end up with a 3.5 to 4 star film. The story is pretty basic, really. Two old friends, moving into their senior years, both fall in love with the lovely woman who moves into the neighborhood. Nothing complex, new, innovative, or fascinating in that plot, as it stands by itself.Every once in a while, though, all the ingredients in a stew -- or a film -- come together just right, and there is a touch of magic. That occurred here. Will this film make you roar with laughter? Is it comic genius? Probably not. Will you smile and chuckle a lot? On that, I'd bet good money.
Rating: 
Summary: Depressingly true to the title
Review: Who likes grumpy old men? This movie made me think at that old poem "gather ye rosebuds while you may..."All in this movie is old, beginning whit the humour.
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