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Neil Simon's classic stage comedy made an effortless transition to the big screen in 1967, when The Odd 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.
On the DVD: The Odd Couple on disc has no extras apart from the original cinema trailer, but the film, presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, with Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, is pristine, Neal Hefti's score providing that instantly identifiable flavour of sophisticated 1960s American comedy. --Piers Ford
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DVD Features:
Theatrical Trailer
Language: English (Dolby 5.1); French, German, Italian, Spanish (Mono); Restored English (mono)
Subtitles: English for the hearing impaired, English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish Turkish
Anamorphic widescreen 2.35:1
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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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I may have been born 8 years after this film was first released but that doesn't stop it being my favourite film of all time. Maybe the fact technically I am Jewish, but not practising makes me appreciate this type of humour even more.
This film tells the story of two divorcees Felix (Jack Lemmon) and Oscar (Walter Matthau). Felix splits from his wife and moves in with Oscar (Walter Matthau), and the two who initially think it is a match made in heaven soon realise that their opposing charcters don't quite suit living together. A lesson for friends out there who are also considering such a move. Felix is obsesional about all household matters. Felix is a little more "relaxed" about such matters.
The biggest shock in some ways is for the friends who appear for their weekly card game, and rather than "milk so old, it's standing in the fridge without a bottle" or "Green sandwiches which are either very new cheese or very old meat". They get sandwhiches to order, and mats for their beers. Smoking is also banned..... resulting in a unhappy friends claiming "poker was not meant to be played this way"
For me Matthau steals the show, with his blend of dead-pan humour, sarcasm and frustration, and I think that anyone who like Seinfeld, or Curb your Enthusiasm MUST.... BEG, BORROW, STEAL or even BUY this DVD.
It is a Classic that has not aged at all. It remains as funny today as they day it was released. Quite simply BRILLIANT.
This film tells the story of two divorcees Felix (Jack Lemmon) and Oscar (Walter Matthau). Felix splits from his wife and moves in with Oscar (Walter Matthau), and the two who initially think it is a match made in heaven soon realise that their opposing charcters don't quite suit living together. A lesson for friends out there who are also considering such a move. Felix is obsesional about all household matters. Felix is a little more "relaxed" about such matters.
The biggest shock in some ways is for the friends who appear for their weekly card game, and rather than "milk so old, it's standing in the fridge without a bottle" or "Green sandwiches which are either very new cheese or very old meat". They get sandwhiches to order, and mats for their beers. Smoking is also banned..... resulting in a unhappy friends claiming "poker was not meant to be played this way"
For me Matthau steals the show, with his blend of dead-pan humour, sarcasm and frustration, and I think that anyone who like Seinfeld, or Curb your Enthusiasm MUST.... BEG, BORROW, STEAL or even BUY this DVD.
It is a Classic that has not aged at all. It remains as funny today as they day it was released. Quite simply BRILLIANT.
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
By L O'connor
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Oscar (Walter Mattheau) is a sports journalist and slob who lives happily in his messy apartment until he invites his friend Felix (who has just been dumped by his wife)to stay with him. Felix swiftly drives Oscar mad with his obsessive cleaning and tidying, and he even manages to ruin their weekly poker game. The last straw comes when Felix ruins the romantic liaison that Oscar has planned for them with their neighbours the Pigeon sisters.
This is a very funny film, Walter Mattheau and Jack Lemmon are both hilarious, and the supporting players all have their moments too. I love this film not just because it is very funny, but also because it reminds me of my husband and I (him being Felix and me Oscar).
This is a very funny film, Walter Mattheau and Jack Lemmon are both hilarious, and the supporting players all have their moments too. I love this film not just because it is very funny, but also because it reminds me of my husband and I (him being Felix and me Oscar).
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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What is there to say? I may be the only person alive who hadn't already seen this picture. I'm trying to think how if would have been if it were an English film, and the effort has worn me out. It couldn't work. It's just so wonderfully right as it is.
I put the subtitles on so as not to miss a syllable of the dialogue. It is going on the shelf next to "Some Like it Hot", and will come out whenever life gets a little stale, or once a week, whichever comes first.
I put the subtitles on so as not to miss a syllable of the dialogue. It is going on the shelf next to "Some Like it Hot", and will come out whenever life gets a little stale, or once a week, whichever comes first.
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odd couple
not seen this on dvd yet. arrived on time. cant wait to see it and hope the quality is good
Published 1 month ago by EAP of B
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2nd Best Film Ever
Odd Couple is my second favourite film ever. Its such a great film that will have you quoting lines for years to come. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Kirsten Broadley
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Fantastic!
A real classic, one of the best films of all time. Funny , sad it's got the lot. A must
Published 1 month ago by Adamo
5.0 out of 5 stars
A brilliant script in the best of hands produces one of the funniest...
This is one of those films that I regard as a 'must see'. If anyone reading this hasn't watched it ... my advice is to buy it straight away. You are in for a treat. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Stephen
1.0 out of 5 stars
No Portuguese dubbed language or subtitles
Website advertised this DVD as having dubbed language of Portuguese and Portuguese subtitles. Unfortunately DVD didn't have either. Such a shame as this is a brilliant film.
Published 3 months ago by Norfolk UK Portuguese speaking citizen
2.0 out of 5 stars
The odd couple
I bought it expecting to see the v
Erosion with Felix and got the wrong actor my costly mistake I binned it after I watching it, do not buy
Erosion with Felix and got the wrong actor my costly mistake I binned it after I watching it, do not buy
Published 5 months ago by Cesar G. Esterman
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Entertaining Comedy!
My husband and I first saw this film at the cinema in 1969 - it still makes us laugh even today. We had the video for many years and have now updated to a dvd. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Lucinda Hamilton
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Odd couple
Had seen this film in NY with my father in the 60s, when it first came out, and liked it then.
I now watched it with my son and his friends (21 years old); I still liked it... Read more
I now watched it with my son and his friends (21 years old); I still liked it... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Claude Medeot
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great comedy fifty years on! Unmissable.
Today I have seen this great film for the first time, nearly half a century after if was made, and I had a ball. Not only is the film superfunny. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Marco Carnovale
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but it would be, wouldn't it?
I had never seen this film but do remember the TV series following it. With a cast of Jack Lemmon and Walter M, you can't fail but I found the story a bit scrappy and not as taut... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Dr. J. Z. Blankenstein
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