The Odd Couple II (1998)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Admirable film.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The Odd Couple 2 (1998): Dir: Howard Deutch / Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Mathau, Jonathan Silverman, Christine Baranski, Jean Smart: The original film was a big hit in 1968 and led to the engaging comic pairings of its leads. This thirty year new sequel is nothing more than a road movie with lackluster locations and a complete lack of anything that made The Odd Couple so memorable. What is truly unfortunate is that Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathou are hilarious but in the original they emerge as personalities whereas in this dreadful sequel they are merely props. They play Oscar and Felix and the road trip to get to a wedding between Oscar's son and Felix's daughter. Boring setup trudges the formula and arrives at absolutely nothing. Directed by Howard Deutch who previously directed both leads in Grumpier Old Men. He does his best here but is up against a wall in creating anything as good as the original. The supporting roles are basically there to sideline the humour spewed by the leads. Jonathan Silverman plays Oscar's son in complete one note fashion. Christine Baranski also appears to what avail. The Odd Couple is hilarious and engaging so it is with great regret that after thirty years the best that could be constructed for a sequel had to be this pathetic and sorry sequel that should be dropped in an inner-state during the filming of this dull road odyssey. Score: 1 / 10

This sequel to "The Odd Couple" is odd. First of all, I don't think one really needed to happen and second of all if one was meant to be made it should have been made a little earlier. The 90's did sort of overuse the dynamic duo known as Lemmon and Matthau. Even in the 80's they paired up. But with films like "Grumpy Old Men", "Grumpier Old Men", "Out to Sea" and of course "The Odd Couple II", you have to ask yourself whether or not this great comedic pair really needed to return as Felix and Oscar. Still they both have the great chemistry on screen together. Always had, but this sequel felt oddly strained to me since most of it I've seen already in "Grumpy Old Men". The script by the great Neil Simon was very hit and miss with the jokes and the whole premise of both of them going to their children's wedding was forced. The direction and editing was pretty sloppy and there was a moment when they were walking in the desert when I almost had a brief flash back of when I saw the movie "Ishtar". The only thing worth seeing and is why I watched it is for Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Despite this odd sequel having a crapola premise, you still gotta love these guys. I'd say watch it for them, but also check out the first movie.

I was a big fan of odd couple TV series and movies.I would like to see a movie remake and I have the perfect stars.They both would be a perfect fit and both have movie experience.The perfect actors to do a movie remake Terry Bradshaw as Oscar Madison and Howie Long as Felix Unger.I wish somebody could come up and get them to make it happen.Oscar Madison was a sports writer Terry Bradshaw is a sports analyzer and Howie Long would be great Felix.With their current jobs I don't think they would want to do a TV series even though they would be perfect for that also they would have plenty of time during an off season to do a movie.I would love to see it happen.I'm also a big Terry Bradshaw AND Howie Long fan.

I'm a great admirer of (Neil Simon). He is one of the comedy's greatest writers ever, but you may think that he becomes sort of sluggard as he aged. Since the mid 1980s his work, save a few movies, came to be less bright, for instance : (The Slugger's Wife - 1985), (The Marrying Man - 1991), and now (The Odd Couple II - 1998). There is something hasty about this comedy. Surely (Simon) was out of his pulse.OK, so there is some marriage that will gather the 2 mortal-enemies-friends again but (Simon) occupies himself with very easy sketches without fair climax that may utilize the attitude till its end (hysterical wedding for example).He weakly made the whole thing into 2 halves. The first seems as an extension of a pale road movie yet has all the possible comedy. And the second one is too short, without any laughs, where even the main irony lazily is not utilized at all.(Simon) used to be the master of the wickedest, most hilarious lines. Here, the dialog was lively but not effective. The lines were short, quick, and unbroken but not quite droll. There weren't even good enough ones to hide the little situations. The survivors are 2 or 3; like Oscar saying to a young girl : "I'm not as old as I look. I had this plastic surgery done recently, and the quack doctor botched it up", and when the girl asks about the silent Felix beside him, Oscar says : "He's the doctor who botched it up !!". It is funny, but just imagine how the rest was always lower than this.It's nearly an incomplete TV show; some joy out of seeing the original odd couple ride again, a few cynical situations, couple of gags, and that's it. The most memorable thing about it, is that it's the last movie for the genius partnership between (Jack Lemmon) and (Walter Matthau). At the time, I told myself when the two bid farewell to each other at the end, it could be real farewell, and sadly it was. As (Matthau) died in July 2000, and in less than a year (Lemmon) died in June 2001.Don't compare it with the 1968 movie because it'll look like the commercial exploitation. It was not satisfying as a sequel for the odd couple, or as a swansong for both of the 2 comedy legends.It's not a whole good night, it's just g.n. !