A putrid movie. Odd Couple II is the latest installment of the long-running collaboration between Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. The movie is a series of embarrassing visual sight gags, a geriatric Home Alone that threatens to rob two fine actors of both their reputations and their dignity. Apparently there is no limit to Mr. Matthau's willingness to be humiliated, none to Mr. Lemmon's fondness for looking silly. They should look for better material and retire the Grumpy Old Odd Couple.
Palmetto strikes out.
It's a muddle that traps the actors from start to finish in a terrible script that reduces them to sputtering. He got that right.