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Summary: BETTER THAN IT'S SEQUEL BUT NOT AS GOOD A PLOT
Review: I VIEWED THIS MOVIE FOR THE SECOND TIME YESTERDAY ON "SHOWTIME" FOLLOWED BY "THE ODD COUPLE 2." THOUGH I LIKE THIS BETTER THAN PART 2,I HAVE TO SAY THAT PART 2 HAS A BETTER PLOT,IS FUNNER TO WATCH,AND IS (PERHAPS) FUNNIER (THOUGH THIS FILM IS PRETTY FUNNY TOO).
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Summary: One of the Funniest Movies Ever
Review: It just doesn't get too much funnier than Matthau & Lemmon in this movie. Each scene is a treasure. I'd heard that Matthau wanted to play Felix first, saying that he could've "phoned in" his performance of Oscar. But, this was perfect casting. A line that still is one of the best is when Oscar goes through his littany of things that irritate him about Felix. He tells him to stop the little notes he leaves on his pillow. "We are all out of toilet paper. F.U. It took me three hours to figure out that F.U. meant Felix Unger!" You gotta own this one. It's a classic.
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Summary: Hilarious and entertaining
Review: Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau make one of the best comedy teams there ever was. I hadn't seen this movie in ages, and even then, only once. I was SOOO glad I picked this one off of my husband's wish list for Christmas. Any time we need a good laugh, we will reach for this one. In my husband's extensive DVD collection, this is one of our top 5 for sure.
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Summary: The Odd Couple
Review: Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" is an appealing comedy about two divorced men, who decided to move in with each other. After divorcing his wife, the neat, clean, neurotic nut Felix, is taken in by Oscar, the broke, disorganized slob in his New York apartment. At first, things go well for the interesting duo. Oscar is saving money, and, for the first time eating real food. But then, things take a toll for the worse. They create such an awkward living situation, that Oscar is forced to throw Felix out. They were best friends prior to the moving in, playing poker every night. Yet after living together, they notice that the little things that they do to each other drive them insane.
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Summary: THE ODD COUPLE: The Movie
Review: Neil Simon's THE ODD COUPLE has been a hit in three different incarnations. First, in 1965, there was the Broadway production starring Art Carney and Walter Matthau as Felix Unger and Oscar Madison. The play was filmed in 1968 with Matthau and Jack Lemmon, then turned into the TV series featuring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman. Though the movie opens up the one-set original to include scenes in restaurants, streets, a motel, a ballpark, and a bowling alley, the sequences set in Oscar's Riverside Drive apartment form the heart of the play; director Gene Saks keeps these intact for the movie. Matthau's deadpan Oscar is the perfect foil for Lemmon's melancholy yet funny Felix. The scenes involving the two are alternately riotous - as when Oscar becomes fed up with Felix's constant fussing - and touching - as when Felix cries in front of the Pigeon sisters, his and Oscar's dinner dates. John Fiedler shines as one of Oscar's four poker-playing buddies. THE ODD COUPLE, in whatever version, is ultimately a comedy about friendship enduring despite differences, and this theme is communicated superbly by the team of Lemmon and Matthau.
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Summary: Odd Men Out Are Still In Style
Review: Perhaps prolific playwright Neil Simon's best known work, the 1968 film adaptation of The Odd Couple, helped to give birth to one of cinema's best comedy teams. It is clear from the begining that Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon were a match made in heaven.Recently divorced fussbudget and neatfreak Felix Unger (Lemmon) is down on his luck. With nowhere else to turn, he finds himself, reluctantly, on the doorstep of pal Oscar Madison (Matthau), who is himself divorced. Oscar is a total slob and proud of it. The film is all about how these total opposites, can live with each other, without losing their sanity. While I never saw the play, (save for a High School produced short version) the filmmakers didn't mess with the formula. Adapting stage plays on film, can at times, seem quite limiting . Not here though. Director Gene Saks has great sense of what works. The chemistry between Lemmon and Matthau is undeniable. The performances are pitch perfect--even from the supporting players. Simon's story and script is timeless and holds up very well...The movie may have been made over 30 years ago and yet...I always liked watching the TV series, still, nothing beats the film version. It's great to finally be able to see the movie in the widescreen format, though, a cleaner print is called for. The only bonus material on the DVD is the film's theatrical trailer. Both of these great actors are sadly no longer with us, but thankfully their work will live on, in the films they left behind. Recommended with a **** and 1 quarter rating.
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Summary: classic
Review: The great thing about this movie is that it's the funniest movie I have ever seen and there are no jokes in the movie, no punch lines, just dialogue. How many classic comedy movies can say that?
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Summary: Not as funny as I had expected!
Review: The Odd Couple by Gene Saks(Director), is indeed an odd movie. The first couple of minutes are mindbending with incoherent lines and an atmosphere that is anything but funny. Oscar is the slob and acts accordingly. Felix on the other hand comes across as being way to weak. A guy that cooks, cleans in an apron and pitches a fit when someone messes things up. This sounds more like he (Felix) is having a severe case of OCD then being completely healthy.
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Summary: Just as Good as The TV Show!
Review: The Odd Couple is a funny movie. I grew up watching reruns of the TV show and when this movie was on Showtime one night I watched it and I didn't enjoy it the first time I saw it but I think it was because the movie was on so late and I was tired and I dosed off a couple of times but I decided to give it another chance and I watched it again on TCM and I liked it and thought it was just as good as the TV show that was based on this movie. I believe that The Odd Couple was first a play by Neil Simon and I would definitely like to see the play! Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon were wonderful as Oscar and Felix and though Jack Lemmon's Felix wasn't quite as annoying as Tony Randall's Felix he was probably a little more realistic! I will be adding this DVD to my collection and it would be nice if the TV show was put out on DVD in complete season boxsets.
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Summary: I Like This Movie and The TV Show!
Review: The Odd Couple is a good movie, I didn't enjoy it when I first watched it but the second time I watched it I really liked it. Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon play friends who become reluctant roomates when Felix (Jack Lemmon) who is a an obsessive compulsive neat freak gets dumped by his wife and moves in with his friend Oscar (Walter Matthau) who is a slob. This is a funny movie and I recommend it. I also remember The TV show that starred Tony Randall and Jack Klugman as Felix and Oscar, I remember watching it in the 70's and yes the movie is probably better but I grew up watching the TV show and I wonder when that is going to be put on DVD!
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