The Odd Couple II is an object lesson in how different films are from 30 years ago. Product placements dot the film. It's edited more quickly, causing more continuity errors. There's a lot more music, usually making the emotional moments more obvious (and to be honest, much of [Alan] Silvestri's comedy music doesn't do much for me, save for his galloping MouseHunt theme). And the men swear -- which made me ask "Were they able to act any less adult when they weren't swearing in the first film?"By the way, the original Odd Couple from 1968 was rated G, in that brief time when the "General Audiences" rating didn't immediately mean "almost entirely mainly for kids." Even with a scene with scantily-clad dancing girls it was G...
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One of the really quick FLASHBACKS I do sometimes: Sixties Ain't Nineties
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Pity Party!*
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"Repairs"
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Hitchhiking to Truth (a review of a film from 2005)
I'll review a film I said I'd review 16 years ago. Yes, 16. I checked. On Wednesday night I watched the 2005 film adaptation of Douglas Adams's…
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