Oscar and Felix take a road trip to their son and daughter's wedding.Oscar and Felix take a road trip to their son and daughter's wedding.Oscar and Felix take a road trip to their son and daughter's wedding.
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- TriviaAfter ten films teamed together, this film was the final feature film collaboration of actors Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.
- GoofsAt almost 15 mins. During a scene where Felix and Oscar are driving on the freeway, you can see someone in a passing car take a photo of them.
- Quotes
Sheriff: Okay, now explain to me one more time how the rental car caught fire and exploded.
Oscar Madison: He called me a shithead and punched the car, it went rolling down a cliff.
Sheriff: Why did you punch the car?
Felix Ungar: Because the shithead threw the directions out the window and left my suitcase at the rental car agency.
Sheriff: Why did you throw the directions out the window?
Oscar Madison: Because they caught fire from my cigar ashes and were burning on my crotch!
Felix Ungar: The first time he's been hot down there for years.
Oscar Madison: I just wanted you to know what it felt like down there...
Sheriff: OK, boys, settle down. You two don't get along too well, do you?
Oscar Madison: Oh, that's not true. There was a period of 17 years that was wonderful. Then unfortunately we saw each other again.
Sheriff: And who did you say was getting married?
Felix Ungar: My daughter and his son.
[the Sheriff and all the deputies have to swallow a laugh]
- SoundtracksThe Odd Couple
By Neal Hefti
A lot has happened in the intervening years. Simon for some reason made Matthau far more ethnically Jewish in this version which finds Oscar living in a senior citizens center writing for a local paper covering minor league baseball and indulging in his weekly pastime of penny ante poker with some contemporaries. He's still the same grouchy lovable slob he always was. I do love that bombs away scene with the garbage bags from his apartment, I can't say more.
And then he learns that his son is marrying his old roommate Felix's daughter and both are invited to the wedding out in Southern California. Enter Jack Lemmon who after making himself a royal pest to the crew on the New York flight to California meets up with Matthau where they rent a car and journey to the small southern California town all of which begin with either San or Los in their names. Don't believe me, look at a map of California and see what I'm talking about. That is after leaving Felix's plastic bag wrapped suitcase on the curb.
After that for a good half the picture Lemmon and Matthau are alone on the screen and that's what the movie-going public paid to see in 1998 in their last joint project. Two of the greatest comic actors and I say that and not comedians doing their best with some of the most impeccable timing and diction and in Matthau's case one of the most expressive faces in film history. Getting involved with a pair of rednecks and their slutty wives and getting into a car with an aged Barnard Hughes who just stops living and getting stuck with a truck of illegal immigrants are the three situations that put them in the jurisdiction of Sheriff Richard Riehl who gets tired of hosting these two in his jail.
Comes the wedding and the aftermath and all I can say there is Oscar as a sportswriter who covered the Yankees would be familiar with what Yogi Berra said about 'De Ja Vu all over again'.
Oscar and Felix they're back, they're better than ever and with both Lemmon and Matthau now gone, we're sadder for the fact they'll never return.
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- Odd Couple 2: Travelin' Light
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- Gross US & Canada
- $18,912,328
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,810,288
- Apr 12, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $18,912,328
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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