This is so bad, it redefines the word awful. There isn't a single funny moment in it.
Neil Simon updates his classic play and ruins it. A year after writing this fiasco, he would also wrote The Odd Couple II. Clearly, it was time to put away the typewriter. He wasn't funny anymore and out of touch with his audience. He removes the doctor skit and instead has some idiotic schtick with a kid in a hospital bed. Not funny.
Allen and Falk are just plain bad as the stars. I didn't care for either one of them. Allen was Allen. No acting stretch here. Falk was simply annoying. In the original film, George Burns played it low key. Walter Matthau was over the top but likable in his own way. These two are irritating and abrasive.
For good measure, a few notables are tossed in the mix, none of whom brings anything to their roles at all. Sarah Jessica Parker and Whoopi Goldberg are faces---that's all. They bring very little to the proceedings.
To add some class, the production uses Liza Minelli singing Old Friends, the Stephen Sondheim song. A great song wasted in an insipid production. Sadly, the best part of a poorly conceived project.
Neil Simon updates his classic play and ruins it. A year after writing this fiasco, he would also wrote The Odd Couple II. Clearly, it was time to put away the typewriter. He wasn't funny anymore and out of touch with his audience. He removes the doctor skit and instead has some idiotic schtick with a kid in a hospital bed. Not funny.
Allen and Falk are just plain bad as the stars. I didn't care for either one of them. Allen was Allen. No acting stretch here. Falk was simply annoying. In the original film, George Burns played it low key. Walter Matthau was over the top but likable in his own way. These two are irritating and abrasive.
For good measure, a few notables are tossed in the mix, none of whom brings anything to their roles at all. Sarah Jessica Parker and Whoopi Goldberg are faces---that's all. They bring very little to the proceedings.
To add some class, the production uses Liza Minelli singing Old Friends, the Stephen Sondheim song. A great song wasted in an insipid production. Sadly, the best part of a poorly conceived project.