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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Adult Language, Adult Humor Movie Release: 1998 DVD Release: 10/21/1998 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 37 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 5 Genres: Comedy, Buddy Film, Odd Couple Film

Howard Deutch directed this sequel to the The Odd Couple (1968), originally adapted from the 1965 Broadway comedy by Neil Simon. Thirty years later, Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) and retired sportswriter Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau) meet at LAX and drive a rental car across the desert to attend the wedding of Oscar's son Brucey (Jonathan Silverman) to Felix's daughter Hannah (Lisa Waltz), but a breakdown leaves them stranded at some distance from the main highways where they are sprayed by a cropduster and hang out with two flirtatious women (Christine Baranski, Jean Smart) in a small-town bar before getting a lift from slow-driving elderly Beaumont (Barnard Hughes), eventually arriving at the wedding. Composer Alan Silvestri brings in Neal Hefti's original theme from the 1968 film, music also featured in ABC's 1970-75 TV series with Tony Randall and Jack Klugman. Another Odd Couple sequel is the TV movie The Odd Couple: Together Again (CBS, 1993, repeated July 1997), starring Randall and Klugman; it also involved the wedding of Felix's daughter. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

Jack Lemmon - Felix Unger
Walter Matthau - Oscar Madison
Christine Baranski - Thelma
Barnard Hughes - Beaumont
Jonathan Silverman - Brucey Madison

Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon return to the roles that made them famous in Neil Simon's The Odd Couple II. The film is presented in 2.35:1 non-anamorphic widescreen and appears to be in better-than-average shape. While it's disappointing to see this film lacking an anamorphic enhancement, overall the colors and black levels are solid and very well defined and even. The soundtrack is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround in English, as well as Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround in English and French. The 5.1 mix on this disc does a fine job of representing what the film needs in terms of directional effects. The Surround sounds are subtle with all of the speakers kicking in whenever composer Alan Silvestri's upbeat music arises. All aspects of the mix are free of any excessive hiss or distortion. Also included on this disc are English and Spanish subtitles. Comedy fans will be frustrated to see that the only extra feature available on this disc is a theatrical trailer for the film. ~ Patrick Naugle, All Movie Guide