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Summary: A classic Matthau-Burns combination. A collectors must have
Review: A delightful and heart-warming rendition of two x-vaudeville players who now can barely stand each other. Until they are brought together again by a family member to revive their act again. This is a definite funfilled movie. For anyone who loves Walter Matthau and George Burns, this should be a must for any video library!
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Summary: "What's a matter con you?"
Review: A masterpiece! I must have been about 10 years old (1980), the first time I saw this movie....it's almost 2003 and I laughed as much now as I did then (it's Walter, for goodness sakes, how can you not laugh)! Uncle Willy will keep you in constant stitches!!!I'm anxiously awaiting the DVD version so I can purchase it!!!
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Summary: "What's a matter con you?"
Review: A masterpiece! I must have been about 10 years old (1980), the first time I saw this movie....it's almost 2003 and I laughed as much now as I did then (it's Walter, for goodness sakes, how can you not laugh)! Uncle Willy will keep you in constant stitches!!! I'm anxiously awaiting the DVD version so I can purchase it!!!
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Summary: East 42nd St.....THIS IS WEST 42 nd st!!!
Review: Hilarious, incredible, cynical and just about every emotion and nuance are on display in this vibrant film about that great comedy team. Matthau is simply at his zenith as W. Clark, king of all Kvetchers and mostly everything else. You should be warned...Matthau,s gate contains so much body language that you cant resist.Once in a great while he does listen to a very frustrated Dick Benjamin( who is terrific). Mr. Clark, cant open his own door easily, gets trappped in elevators..cant read directions ..cant find or read the copy...and lives in a world where seemingly everyone has gone mad..except for him.?? Through the laughs we see some meloncholy...just a bit mind you but enough. Burns is droll as ever as Mr Clark's old partner..
During one of the most funniest bits ever Clark gets " Fingered" and " Spritzed" Al this while he issues his revenge with a high pitched " ENTER".. Truly a one of a kind film..its almost heartbreaking to know that a film like this can never ..never be made again..EVER!
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Summary: sunshine boys - funniest film ever ?
Review: I am 30 years of age. Living in London.
I first had the pleasure of viewing this movie when i was fifteen. I have seen hundreds of comedies over the years and this is the only movie that i can watch time and time again. Mattau and Burns are a match made in heaven. The script is laugh a minute. Truly a masterpiece. There have been re-makes and stage shows produced since which unfortunately do not compare. This is a must see film and i am desperate for it to be produced in DVD format to ensure that i can remain watching this film for many years to come.
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Summary: A Must See - Hilarious
Review: I rented this movie and watched it three times in a 24 hour period. I couldn't stop laughing. This is one of Walter Matthau's best. George Burns and Walter Matthau toghether are a riot. I had to buy it!!
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Summary: Absolute Guffaw!
Review: I watched this movie about 100's as a kid....it's been 8-10 years since I last saw it...that is until this past weekend (12/22/02)..and let me tell you, this movie made me laugh just as much as it did the first 100 's I saw it (in the 70's)! Walter & George...what a pair! I can only imagine the side stitches I'd have if Jack Lemmon made an appearance in this flick, too! I highly recommend this film to those in need of some laughter! This film needs to be on DVD!
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Summary: Benjamin's As Funny In This As Burns And Matthau
Review: Just because most of Neil Simon's work doesn't appeal to me doesn't mean he never hits the bullseye. I've always loved his brassier, vaudeville-inspired early work, where he was simply and shamelessly out to make you laugh, as with this movie. There are 'serious' moments here, but they're not destinations, just short bridges to more one-liners. For some, this represents artistic laziness, but I find Simon doesn't do 'serious/introspective' well at all: he's a seltzer bottle in an age of plastic Evian containers. THE SUNSHINE BOYS is one of the funniest urban comedies to have emerged from the 70s, an era that produced a lot of good ones. Simon, here working with archetypes as familiar to him as an old shoe & comfortably in his element, whips up a consistently hilarious 100 minutes. Matthau and Burns are great, but you already knew that; Richard Benjamin, however, is the film's secret weapon. He plays Matthau's long-suffering nephew/agent, and some of the biggest laughs in the film are his - such as the closeup of his face in the elevator following Matthau's blown audition for the potato-chip commercial that opens the film. He wears an utterly blank, almost zen expression of serenity-in-utter-failure. A later scene at the Friars Club, which has him desperately pleading with Burns on the phone while Matthau harangues him outside the phone booth, is played to comedic perfection. And all of his exchanges with Matthau had this viewer in convulsions. Matthau holds up a roll of paper towels and grumbles, "Here! Why didn't you get me an audition for this?" Benjamin, sighing deeply and painfully, responds, "I did get you that audition, Uncle Willy. You kept calling it 'toilet paper', remember?" The chemistry between Benjamin and the two leads is actually better than that between Burns and Matthau. (Although their scenes are very funny, the climactic "Doctor sketch" is subpar burlesque, nowhere near the quality of buffoonery we'd been led to expect. It's a disappointment, but a small one.) The rest of the film is nearly always on the mark and very satisfying; as a bonus, there's great NYC location shooting (always a plus in any movie).
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Summary: Another cracking-good comedy from Neil Simon
Review: Neil Simon, oddly enough, has written some of the funniest movies I have seen. The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, Brighton Beach Memoirs, these are films I could watch over and over again--and do. I say "oddly enough" because they were originally written as plays for Broadway and their adaptation for film has lost none of the humor. If only other screenwriters could capture this talent and translate to modern films, which seem to have lost the ability to be funny based purely on natural situations. Most seem to have the responses they want already and then create situations to respond to. Inorganic humor, I call that. Give me organic humor any day. I prefaced this review in that way because I recently saw The Sunshine Boys and, expecting nothing but the best from Simon, was certainly not disappointed. In it an old vaudeville team, Lewis and Clark (a contrived name, yes, but easy to remember), that broke up inamicably years ago, are reunited through Clark's nephew to perform on a "history of comedy" style TV show. The humor and pathos all come from their simple love-hate relationship. Walter Matthau (a last-minute replacement for the late Jack Benny) is terrific playing a man much older than himself, in fact a man supposed to be a similar in age to his ex-partner played by George Burns. Matthau plays the "crotchety old man" role he would grow to perfect over the years (he gets to use the word "putz" decades before Grumpy Old Men), while Burns is milder and more sympathetic; giving a deeper performance (for which he won a career-capping Oscar) than in, say, the Oh, God! films. Although I can't help but wonder what it would have been like had Jack Benny survived, this film does not suffer from his absence. Clark is simply given a different performance by an equally great actor. It is a very funny film and very moving, both Simon specialties.
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Summary: Another cracking-good comedy from Neil Simon
Review: Neil Simon, oddly enough, has written some of the funniest movies I have seen. The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, Brighton Beach Memoirs, these are films I could watch over and over again--and do. I say "oddly enough" because they were originally written as plays for Broadway and their adaptation for film has lost none of the humor. If only other screenwriters could capture this talent and translate to modern films, which seem to have lost the ability to be funny based purely on natural situations. Most seem to have the responses they want already and then create situations to respond to. Inorganic humor, I call that. Give me organic humor any day. I prefaced this review in that way because I recently saw The Sunshine Boys and, expecting nothing but the best from Simon, was certainly not disappointed. In it an old vaudeville team, Lewis and Clark (a contrived name, yes, but easy to remember), that broke up inamicably years ago, are reunited through Clark's nephew to perform on a "history of comedy" style TV show. The humor and pathos all come from their simple love-hate relationship. Walter Matthau (a last-minute replacement for the late Jack Benny) is terrific playing a man much older than himself, in fact a man supposed to be a similar in age to his ex-partner played by George Burns. Matthau plays the "crotchety old man" role he would grow to perfect over the years (he gets to use the word "putz" decades before Grumpy Old Men), while Burns is milder and more sympathetic; giving a deeper performance (for which he won a career-capping Oscar) than in, say, the Oh, God! films. Although I can't help but wonder what it would have been like had Jack Benny survived, this film does not suffer from his absence. Clark is simply given a different performance by an equally great actor. It is a very funny film and very moving, both Simon specialties.
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