The Odd Couple II

Oscar and Felix take a road trip to their son and daughter’s wedding., The stars and characters of the original ‘Odd Couple’ are reunited in this comedy of errors which begins with the impending marriage of Felix’s daughter and Oscar’s son. The two old cronies meet up in Los Angeles only to get themselves lost whilst driving to the ceremony, triggering a catalogue of mishaps., Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau team up again as Felix and Oscar. Seventeen years since they last met, the old sparring partners are reunited at their son and daughter’s wedding., 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), and 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., Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon are reunited as the mismatched duo in screenwriter Neil Simon’s hilarious 1998 sequel. Former roommates Oscar (Matthau) and Felix (Lemmon) meet up again after 17 years for the marriage of Oscar’s son and Felix’s daughter. Jonathan Silverman, Lisa Waltz, Christine Baranski, Barnard Hughes., The Lemmon-Matthau partnership returns to its roots in this sequel to the film which thrust the grand old men of movie comedy into the big time. 17 years have passed since the events of the first story and Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison finally live apart. However, when Felix’s son announces his intention to marry Oscar’s daughter the pair have to cross the country and they hit the road, ready to drive each other insane all over again.