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 The Odd Couple (DVD)
 The Odd Couple (DVD) ... Couple provided Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau with a tailor-made mid-career affirmation of their status as two of cinema's greatest funny men. Lemmon is Felix, manically obsessed with cleanliness and housekeeping, struggling to understand why his wife wants a divorce. Matthau is Oscar, his slovenly poker-playing buddy who invites him to take the spare room and lives to regret it as they rapidly and comically come to grief like an old, totally incompatible, married couple, revealing exactly why their respective wives have had enough. "I don't think two single men living alone in a big eight-room apartment should have a cleaner house than my mother", Matthau wails, trying to make sense of the disintegrating situation.The pair devour Simon's typically sharp and witty script in a frenzy of classic one-liners that allow Lemmon's trademark twitchy neurosis and Matthau's baleful cussedness to flourish. Great as they are, though, they are nearly eclipsed in the funniest scene of the film by Monica Evans and Carole Shelly as a couple of British expatriate sisters from the apartment upstairs. Carry On innuendo briefly meets Manhattan repartee and the screen crackles with brilliance. It's a comic masterclass. Newest Review: ... played by Walter Matthau. THE ODD COUPLE The film was released in 1967 and still had Walter as Oscar but this time around ... more ... had Jack Lemmon as the stressed out Felix. Oscar is a divorced guy who has got used to living alone, having the boys round occasionally for card games and living like a tramp. When his friend Felix is thrown out of the marital home he offers the near suicidal Felix a temporary home. Within a few weeks it is Oscar that is near suicidal bordering on homicidal. What is it they say about 'A friend in need is a friend indeed' We tend to say 'A friend in need is a bl--dy nuisance' and this film proves it.
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The Odd Couple (DVD): Who needs friends? (682 words)
by - written on 03/06/08 (Very useful, 59 readings)
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BACKGROUND When Hubby and I married in 1972 everyone, including ourselves used to call us the Odd couple. My husband was extremely untidy, liked to slob around and preferred to live in a very casual manner. On the other hand I was very house proud, liked to be neat and tidy and could not abide clutter. Thankfully over the years we have mellowed towards each other but it has taken time. The reference to us as The Odd Couple was as a comparison to the characters in a popular American situation comedy series and film of the times. However I have to say that neither of us was quite as bad as Oscar and Felix. This Odd Couple originated from a very ... Read the complete review
DIVORCED COUPLE !!- UNIQUE COUPLE !! (1167 words)
by - written on 13/11/06 (Very useful, 73 readings)
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DIVORCED COUPLE !!- UNIQUE COUPLE !! ODD COUPLE Walter Matthau (Oscar Madison) Jack Lemmon (Felix Unger) whenever I look at these 2 great actors, I cannot keep myself from laughing, they look so good together, they must be called a couple, a couple whose comedy style will remain unsurpassed in Hollywood history. Walter Matthau tall, serious, cynical, grumpy and sloppy, Jack Lemmon tense, introvert, sensitive, helpless, neatnik. I have seen these 2 actors in many movies, I laugh just seeing them together, my stomach hurts, there was something very cute about them reacting to each other, the laughter comes inspite of yourself. I am not using high flaunting ... Read the complete review
The Odd Couple (DVD): "Is everybody happy?!" (1109 words)
by - written on 29/10/04 (Very useful, 280 readings)
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I probably ought to have saved this for the forthcoming favourite film competition, but having just seen it again for, oh, the millionth time whilst entertaining a sick relative, I wanted the joy that is The Odd Couple shouted from the rooftops RIGHT NOW. So here goes. Originally a Broadway smash hit, classic scribe Neil Simon's play based on the experiences of his divorcing brother was brought to the big screen in 1968 with the inspired partnership of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau leading the way and Barefoot In The Park's Gene Saks at the directorial helm. Simon, of course, penned the screenplay adaptation, and with what would soon become classic music by ... Read the complete review
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