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Friday April 10,1998
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau reprise their roles in The Odd Couple. Contributed photo
Hmm ... Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau doing a sequel to 1968's The Odd Couple
By Jeremy M. Doherty
jdoherty@kansan.com
Kansan movie critic
In this decade alone, these guys have teamed up for two Grumpy Old Men flicks and last year's boat comedy (no, not Titanic) Out to Sea. Toss in their contributions to Oliver Stone's JFK, and we're not exactly hurting for more foolishness with Felix and Oscar.
Haven't we seen this already?
That being said, Neil Simon's The Odd Couple II gets some fairly decent mileage out of the Lemmon-Matthau routine. At times, Simon, who wrote the original Odd Couple, demonstrates he can still get off some of the best zingers of any writer around.
So what's the problem? By and large, the actors look like they're just going through the motions.
The setup is that Felix's daughter
For reasons never adequately explained, the two former roomies meet and book a rented car together to the kids' wedding in San Malina. And then the fun
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Felix has, by now, braved three divorces and two broken engagements. He's even more of a hypochondriac, given to plugging his nose on airplanes so he won't have to smell the other passengers. As Good it Gets, anyone?
is getting hitched to Oscar's son. Clean-freak Felix (Lemmon) and defiant bachelor Oscar (Matthau) now have to enure each other while car pooling to the wedding.
Oscar has left his New York apartment and moved down to Florida, where he's still covering sports. His pickup lines are as lecherous as ever, and his legendary poker game consists of a crew of elderly widows instead of men.
A plethora of off-color language peppers the script, and Matthau flips the birdie on one occasion. Lemmon gets to sputter the F-word almost as many times here as he did in *Glenarry Glen Ross*.
After 30 years, common sense would dictate that Lemmon, Matthau and Simon would reunite only if the material were worth it. With an ending that leaves wide open the possibility for an Odd Couple 3 (or is that Grumpy Old Men 3), I'd say a sequel was likely the farthest thing from their minds.
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Felix's suitcase gets left behind at the airport. Oscar drops a cigar onto his groin and tosses the road map out the car window. The rented car rolls off a cliff and explodes in a giant fireball. Simon obviously realized his brand of jittery, pre-Woody Allen comedy probably wouldn't fly in today's Ace Ventura climate. To compensate, he piles on the sitcom gibberish and sight gags.
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But, being angels, they've never actually tasted fruit, felt the ocean's waves or made love. The joy they derive from their good deeds is short-lived because they have no real frame of reference.
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One angel, Seth (Cage), is a wide-eved personality who always asks the newly dead what they liked best about life. Wandering the halls of a Los Angeles hospital, he finds himself drawn to Maggie (Ryan), a surgeon whose string of bad luck on the operating table has left her deteriorated.
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This movie's trump card is that it's based on Wim Wenders' haunting German-language film *Wings of Dess. Forens* of that ethereal masterpiece may find this Americanized take to conventional for their tastes, but it succeeds through the strong work of Nicolas Cage and Mee Rvan
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By Jeremy M. Doherty
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wearsthe black overcoat
its premise — an angel walks amongst humans and years to live with them — sounds utterly corny and fairly derivative after the John Travolta vehicle Michael took a similar route a few years back.
Seth learns from a "fallen" angel (Dennis Franz) he could leave his celestial duty and become human if he chooses.
One of the most pleasing elements here is that director Brad Silberling has managed to modify Wenders' story without sullying our memories of the original. Silberling puts romance at the center, whereas Wings of Desire didn't introduce it until nearly the end.
Ryan is on familiar turf with the romance, but she forgoes the space-cadet demeanor which has typified many of her roles.
Cage takes an detour from his recent string of action flicks, creating a sympathetic, pure character without relying on his cliched acting techniques (bug-eyed facial expressions and hyper-active delivery).
If director Silberling seems to lose his touch in the last reel, give him a break. He's still miles ahead of his last effort - 1995's Casper.
Kansas City offers nightlife options
By Tamara Miller
Despite these problems, Merrill said sometimes Kansas City was a nice change from the Lawrence entertainment scene.
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Sometimes the night life in Lawrence just isn't enough to satisfy adventurous college students.
Larry Nichols, general manager for Stanford's Comedy House, 504 Westport Road, said students frequent his business, especially on weekends and spring break.
"You always see the same people all the time in Lawrence," she said. "Kansas City has a different crowd. It's new."
"The later you stay, the longer you drink, and the harder it is to get home," he said.
"A 45-minute eastbound drive is all a KU student needs to have a little fun." he said.
Frank Heili, a bartender for the Hurricane, 4048 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. has a piece of advice.
One of the things that attracts students to the comedy house is the drink specials, Nichols said. Every
Many KU students are taking Heili's advice and making the trip to Kansas City on the weekends.
"Lawrence has a lot more 18-and over places, plus our cover charge is a little higher than college students are willing to spend," said Chris Pearson, general manager of America's Pub, 510 Westport Road. "Being a college student once
Ashley Lucas, Overland Park junior, said her biggest attraction to the Kansas City night life was the jazz scene. Jardine's 4536 Main St., presents many area jazz artists, she said.
"Simplexity is one of the only bands I've heard in Lawrence that sounds like the ones I've seen in Kansas City." Lucas said.
"KU students really go for that," he said.
Wednesday, the comedy house offers $1 draws until 3 a.m.
However, Lucas said that before she turned 21, she was more limited on places to go in Kansas City.
myself, you go where you can spend the least and drink the most."
Dan Balsinger, Lawrence resident, agreed the drive was sometimes a problem.
Another obstacle with commuting to Kansas City is driving home afterward, said Lindsay Merrill, Plano, Texas, junior. Merrill said when she went to Kansas City on the weekends, one in the group was the designated driver, or she would stay at a friend's house in Kansas City.
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