The Odd Couple

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Summary: Who Said Opposites Can't Make A Good Movie?
Review: 1968 movie about two friends who are opposites of one another. Walter Matthau plays Oscar who is a sloppy guy and prefers to live that way and Jack Lemon plays Felix Unger who is one of those people who have to keep everything clean. Felix and Oscar are two divorced men who now must try to live with one another in the same apartment, but can two friends who are complete opposites live peacefully with each other? Walter Matthau and Jack Lemon, two real life friends acted naturally which made their performances convincing and funny in parts. The Odd Couple was voted one of the movies in America's 100 Funniest Movies. The Odd Couple is followed by a sequel.

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Summary: A Classic
Review: A great flick for a Saturday night.Get your coasters and nasal spray and settle in.A movie that is funny because of the circumstances and not the usual slapstick. You like the characters yet understand what is that peeves the other room mate. A great looking movie.A movie for those who like good characters as much as a good joke.

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Summary: A Perfect Comedy Team in the Perfect Comedy
Review: Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy? This movie proves that the answer is no. Oscar is a sloppy New York sports writer. Felix is a fussy neat freak who writes the news for television. Both are divorced and share an apartment together. Felix complains about a pickle on the floor, and Oscar complains about Felix washing Oscar's poker cards. Yes, they get on each other's nerves endlessly, that is, until Oscar throws Felix out. This movie is one of my all-time favorites, and unlike other movies I've seen, it doesn't get stale with repeated viewings. All in all, a classic comedy by Neil Simon.

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Summary: A Perfect Comedy Team in the Perfect Comedy
Review: Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy? This movie proves that the answer is no. Oscar is a sloppy New York sports writer. Felix is a fussy neat freak who writes the news for television. Both are divorced and share an apartment together. Felix complains about a pickle on the floor, and Oscar complains about Felix washing Oscar's poker cards. Yes, they get on each other's nerves endlessly, that is, until Oscar throws Felix out. This movie is one of my all-time favorites, and unlike other movies I've seen, it doesn't get stale with repeated viewings. All in all, a classic comedy by Neil Simon.

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Summary: A cult funny movie !
Review: Consider this film among the greatest comedies ever made and to me , the second best after Some like it hot . Lemmon and Matthau make an unbeatable couple . Two grumpy exmarrieds who has taken up housekeeping together in New York .
But after jus few hours Matthau will know the real nature of his neurotic friend Lemmon . The obsessive sense of pulchritude of Lemmon and the indifference of Matthau about this little detail will be one of the multiple of the laughable situations all along the film .
Magnificent.


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Summary: The Odd Couple: The Good and Bad
Review: I first saw this movie back in the early 1970's (1973 or 1974)on television. I had not seen it since until now (2004). I thought I would give it a try to see if it still holds up. I found the movie to still be funny in spots. The movie was shorter than I remembered, but it still is a funny movie. It's a good movie for someone who has never seen the "The Odd Couple". Walter and Jack are good in their performances. It is still an enjoyable film. The only problem with the film is that the music is a little dated, but the film otherwise is good. The humor was over the top back in '68, which still makes it good today some 36 years later. Its a good movie to watch once every 5 to 10 years. It still holds up. Fine acting and comedy. Much better than the televison series of the same name with Klugman and Randall.

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Summary: Smart, Insightful, Funny Movie -- Still Holds Its Own Today
Review: I grew up with the Tony Randall/Jack Klugman sitcom version of "The Odd Couple." Everything about it is funny. Having seen for the first time the movie, I never before imagined how smart Neil Simon could be. The movie outshines the TV series, and is worth the space on any standard comedy DVD library shelf.

In the TV series, Klugman's Oscar is a bohemian bachelor living in slop, and apparently content. In the movie, Walter Matthau's Oscar is no neater, but five times as deep. Although he lives in a divorced man's squalor of old cigars and warm beer, he wants more. He's lonely for his wife and kids, and regrets not making his alimony payments. His life is so disorganized that he wastes money by squandering cash on dinners out and gambling.

When Felix Ungar, as played by Jack Lemmon, Oscar's poker buddy, comes to stay when his wife divorces him, lifestyles clash.

On the surface, the clash is about organization and housekeeping. More deeply, Felix and Oscar duel as Super Ego and ID. Consistently archetypal, they are, in a more modern sense, like Marge and Homer Simpson, each seeing life through their limited expressions. Felix is uptight, and forever second-guessing himself. Oscar is living life for the moment, and never stopping to consider his responsibilities.

Oscar cares about Felix more than their other poker buddies, and connects with him as alter self, regarding their friendship worth pursuing. Since Felix needs a place to stay, Oscar offers up his ample apartment. The conflicts arise soon after, but not without each appreciating what the other brings to the relationship. Ironies abound when Felix's hypersensitivities gain him the affection of two dimwitted but attractive sisters, and Oscar's unbridled hormones.

Oscar can't help but enjoy Felix's great cooking and cleaning habits. He eats better, saves money, and finds his home is a nice a place to be when cigarette butts don't litter the floor.

No remake could collect such a cast. Matthau and Lemmon are known here as a duo on par with any of the great matches, like Bogie and Bacall, Bing and Bob, or Abbott and Costello. John Fiedler as the soft spoken family man, Vinnie, and Herb Edelman as Murray the cop are casted primely. One reason "The Odd Couple II" misses is this class cast. Matthau and Lemmon bring a lot to the table, but with Murray and Vinnie (plus Monica Evans and Carole Shelley respectively as the giggly sisters, Cecily and Gwendolyn Pigeon), anything made 30+ years later won't do.

Superbly written, "The Odd Couple" is one of those comedies with intelligence. Never does Neil Simon try to pan off one-liners. Even as Oscar tosses out slicing one-phrased commentaries as swiftly as Grouch Marx, there is more than a quick chuckle behind it. It is the myriad of layers, subtle commentary and sly interjections that lift this script up an extra level, placing it as a classic.

Surprisingly entertaining is the theme. It is the same them as in the TV series, but plays in varied orchestrations throughout the movie's context. It was one of the great TV themes, and to hear it extrapolated in several variations makes it so much more enjoyable.

I fully recommend "The Odd Couple."

Anthony Trendl

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Summary: Odd Couple
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Summary: A classic film with classic performances.
Review: I recently watched "The Odd Couple" for the first time in about twenty years. What a thrill to see Felix and Oscar going at it. At one of the film's most touching moments, near the beginning, Felix, preparing to do himself in by jumping out the window of a flea-bag hotel, walks sullenly toward his rented room. A haggard cleaning lady in the hall greets him, saying "Goodnight!" His key in the door of the room, he looks back and says "Goodbye". A magic moment. And there are so many others in this film. Felix's sinus attack in the restaurant competes with Meg Ryan's "orgasm" scene with Billy Crystal for "funniest moment in a movie restaurant scene". Watch this film and enjoy it again and again. I certainly did!

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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I saw this movie about two weeks ago on AMC. It was funny and made me really laugh. I'm a 15 year old who likes classic and ORIGINAL films, not today's CGI filled/no talent actors/rap star cameo-esque films. Anyway, I really liked Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau after seeing this movie. Of course, I always liked Matthau, because I've seen him in a couple of movies with Gregory Peck (also on AMC). It was a great movie!