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Initially, the film seems doomed to be an annoying “Driving Miss Daisy” spin on “The Odd Couple.”
The movie borrows its tropes, and its comedy, from “The Odd Couple,” but its mismatch sometimes turns earnest, as when Don reproaches Tony for staying outside a mansion and playing craps with other—black—drivers. (“They didn’t have a choice whether to be inside or out; you did”).
Together, the two create a magical chemistry on screen with buddy comedy reminiscent of Gene Saks’ “The Odd Couple” (1968), making Ali the tidy Felix to Mortensen’s uncouth Oscar.
“Green Book” (★★★½ out of four; rated PG-13; in select cities Friday including New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Washington and Chicago; nationwide Nov. 21) offers shades of “The Odd Couple,” “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” and a race-flipped “Driving Miss Daisy.”
The film is a bit like “The Odd Couple” joined to a 21st century version of “Driving Miss Daisy,” with superior acting by two of today’s top actors — Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali — sealing the bargain.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
Directed by Andy Serkis
influenced by The Odd Couple (1968)
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Andy Serkis’ Venom: Let There Be Carnage gives the people (aka you lunatic Venom supporters) what they want — a slapstick superhero comedy that cites The Odd Couple as inspiration for its buddy antics between Eddie Brock and his Venom symbiote.
I never thought I'd get "The Odd Couple" out of a Marvel movie, but here it is.
The first “Venom,” released in 2018, suffered from the need to set up Hardy’s one-man production of “The Odd Couple.”
Straddling the subversive energies of The Odd Couple and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, it’s the classic straight man juxtaposed with the comic foil routine, perhaps with an arguable dash of queerness to pique the interests in communities scavenging for representation through the ruins of mainstream studio filmmaking.
It’s Beetlejuice meets The Odd Couple as Brock and Venom must learn to live together despite their differences.
Paul Feig’s new R-rated cop comedy The Heat is not exactly something audiences haven’t seen before; the boorish, slobby and foul-mouthed beat cop Melissa McCarthy paired with the neat-freak buttoned-down promotion-hungry Fed Sandra Bullock recalls everything from 48 Hrs. to The Odd Couple.
Also not a small hint of "The Odd Couple."
Before you can say "The Odd Couple", the two are paired up and bickering as they slowly begin to bond with each other on the way to tracking down the bad guys.
Cue the theme to The Odd Couple.
"Jack and Jill," the latest product from Adam Sandler's Happy Madison production company that features him playing both an ordinary family man and his ultra-obnoxious twin sister, is currently rocking a whopping 4% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, only a mere 87 percentage points behind "The Descendants," and has accumulate a collection of reviews that, save for the rave from the generally contrarian Armond White, so punishingly negative that they have achieved the seemingly impossible task of making "Just Go with It," his indescribably awful remake of "Cactus Flower" with Jennifer Aniston, into his artistic high point of 2011 by default.
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Directed by David Leitch
influenced by The Odd Couple (1968)
Characters Plot
The next film could involve them fighting space iguanas on a guacamole planet whilst riding unicycles for all I care about story logic, but there needs to be more to them than just The Odd Couple hopped up on Mountain Dew.
If any enterprising producer ever elects to reconfigure The Odd Couple with Felix a musclebound American and Oscar a snarling Brit, well, here ya go.
It's part "Starsky and Hutch" and part "The Odd Couple."
As opposed to the bumbler of previous film versions, Watson's been made into a handsome man of action, but he's also been placed in a relationship with Holmes that feels too much like "The Odd Couple."
This is a buddy film -- perhaps a modern reconstruction of "The Odd Couple."
Stephen Whitty's Review: TWO STARS Based loosely on the old movie “Cactus Flower” (itself based loosely on an old play), it’s the story of a swinging doctor who keeps commitment-crazy women at arm’s length by pretending to be married.
Worse, consider that this lazy comedy is a remake of 1969's Cactus Flower - a fizzy concoction starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, and Goldie Hawn, who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her efforts - and be prepared to pick your jaw up off the floor, as I did, when another Oscar winner, Nicole Kidman, shows up playing fourth fiddle to Aniston.
In Cactus Flower, Walter Matthau (playing a dentist, but that profession doesn't allow breast jokes) lied about marriage to only one woman — Oscar winner Goldie Hawn — as a defense mechanism against commitment, not a predatory ploy.
"Just Go with It" is a remake of 1969's Walter Matthau-Ingrid Bergman-Goldie Hawn screwball comedy "Cactus Flower," itself based on a 1965 Broadway show by Abe Burrows that was adapted from the French play "Fleur de cactus" by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy (phew!).
It’s that its source material is the same as the Walter Matthau-Ingrid Bergman-Goldie Hawn 1969 screwball comedy “Cactus Flower.”
If you’re starting to acquire a sense of deja vu it’s because deep down somewhere inside “Just Go With It” is an attempt by director Dennis Dugan (a Sandler regular) to remake “Cactus Flower,” the 1969 comedy in which Walter Matthau portrayed a womanizing dentist, Ingrid Bergman his matronly assistant and an Oscar-winning Goldie Hawn as the geezer’s barely legal fiancée.
Perhaps realizing that, the filmmakers have abandoned any pretense of being faithful to the series, and turned to a mashup of screwball comedy, action and " The Odd Couple " formula.
Often, The Lighthouse plays like a farcical roommate comedy unspooling at the intersection of Poe and Preminger: The Odd Couple as a kind of blustery, anachronistic neo- noir .
With its middle-age roommates failing to meet basic developmental milestones, “Step Brothers” is like “Wayne’s World” and “The Odd Couple” taking a shower together, under a soothing cascade of filthy language.