Review of The Odd Couple (1968) by Sherry L — 22 Jun 2007
WOW! This really shows how important it could be to rewatch movies once in a while. Would be a shame if I wouldn't have rewatch it and just go on thinking that this was mediocre. How incredibly wrong I was! This is by far the best comedy Jack Lemmon and Walter Mattau ever did together.
The dialog and the acting is absolutely top draw! I mean, jus about every line or gesture by any of these two made me knock dead.
Walter Mattau plays this male pig Oscar Madison that lives alone in an apartment, with his wife and kids living across the country, but Oscar is just as happy without them. He lives for his pokergames with his friends and enjoys loads of booze, women and about everything you cannot do when having a wife around you all the time. But suddenly he learns that one of his friends Felix Ungar has been left by his wife and Felix now sees no reason to go on living. So Oscar agrees in letting Felix staying with him for a while, to be a good pal, and show him what a nice life you can live without your wife. Though, it turnes out that he didn't know Felix as well as he first thought! And we soon start to understand a little but more why Felix's wife could have left him.
Felix is a pain in the neck and has this obsession to clean ALL THE TIME, and gradually transforms (though not literally of course) into a wife himself!
One of my favorite scenes is when Felix is coming to Oscar's the apartment and the poker friends are going to "handle" the matter as smooth as possible....(that is completely ignoring him! haha!). And you know what? It actually gets funnier and funnier as the movie goes.
Highly recommended!
This review of The Odd Couple (1968) was written by Sherry L on 22 Jun 2007.
The Odd Couple has generally received very positive reviews.
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