Wednesday 9 January 2013

Grumpy Old Men (1993 Donald Petrie)

Mark Steven Johnson has forgotten to write any humour into this comedy, unless the idea of driving a geriatric in fishing cabin onto thin ice is funny. It's also depressing seeing Lemmon and Matthau hating each other: that's never how their relationships worked.

Ann-Margaret is the unlikely third party. Also good to see Burgess Meredith 50 years after That Uncertain Feeling. Buck Henry too.

Maybe, as we're detoxing, I'm the Grumpy Old Man!

Also rather too much Alan Silvestri music.

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