Waste of time

Best movie ever!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Blistering performances.

Pardon the pun, I couldn't resist it.*In my opinion this original version starring jack lemon is far, far superior entertainment than the remake with Steve Martin many years later:It's the difference between a Boeing and a bucket.(In the farfetched Martin 'attempt" the lead pair's acting is totally unconvincing. One scene in the remake was, however, hilarious, viz John Cleese in drag, replete with high heels, miming in his botel bedroom to the vocals of a record. Priceless. Elsewhere in this much later offering a massive goof for me was when the main character, having spent a night out in the open, not only appears for his morning job interview without a trace of midnight shadow on his face but, miraculously, sports his large cv portfolio despite one of the many mishaps he'd earlier suffered being the loss of his airport luggage - and never a trace of a shoulder bag which, HAD there been one, might just possibly have been big enough to contain an illustrated A5 presentation display.)Back to the Lemon movie. The whining, scatterbrained wife forever mouthing "Oh my god" amused me immensely; the acttess in this case - not so her successor - succeeded in persuading me that she really WAS the wife of her endearingly pathetic husband.The pair are riotous fun! Eleven out of ten for Lemon squeezing every drop of comic reality from the script. (*Opportune wordplay again I confess.)

Jack Lemmon rescues this good comedy which shoulda been great > there are as many believable and funny scenes as there are unbelievable and just plain dumb scenes which should have hit the cutting room floor.as a NJ-NYer from 1951 to 2009, I loved the location shots of New York in 1970 and the Director and EDitor know just how much time to spend on these classic backdrops.of course, movie comedy is about exaggeration and we can go down of a list of "in reality, they could have easily....". but it's Neil Simon, probably the first American playwright who writes mostly based upon his own New York experiences and knows how to tickle the funnybone especially, of middle class easterners, earnest but constantly being kicked around; not as street savvy as they think they are.I wrote above that Lemmon saves the project, as professional as it is, because, frankly, Sandy Dennis is uncharacteristically awful. And it's not her fault, I surmise > seems the Director does not know if she should just use her beautiful "English accent", throughout, or mix in some real Brooklynese. On the other hand, perhaps his concept of Mrs. Kellerman, is a kind of naïve, flaky kid, like Edith Bunker > always adoring - restrained but still capable of breaking out in a lecture, if needed.another reason I chose a "6" rating is in the terrible denouement and finale scene. to use a contemporary expression to describe an old movie directorial/literary choice, "what were they thinking?".good to see Meara and Billy Dee Williams, in early roles. (and all those 8 cylinder sedans!).

Jack Lemmon & Sandy Dennis play George & Gwen Kellerman, who leave their Ohio hometown when George gets a big job interview in New York City. Unfortunately, their plane is delayed, resulting in them being late for their carefully scheduled dinner. Rather than be put up in the hotel paid for by the apologetic airline, the Kellermans decide to strike out on their own, resulting in an ever escalating series of disasters that make this the trip from hell! Though undeniably well-acted and even funny, this comedy from Neil Simon just goes too far into darkness, piling on calamity after calamity until viewer reaches the breaking point....not to mention that the stubborn Kellermans brought the whole thing on themselves, though one can't help feel sympathy for them regardless.Harrowing humor that doesn't know when to quit!

I found Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis as a believable married couple who have a lot of chemistry together who travel to New York from Ohio and find themselves in hysterical situations. When Mr. and Mrs. Kellerman travel to New York for a job interview plus a romantic weekend the hilarity ensues. Two's company and New York is the crowd. If you want to laugh till it hurts this is the movie to see!!!!! Neil Simon has written a masterpiece. He is a genius when it comes to dialogue. Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis create synchronized lovable characters committed to each other through good times and bad.New York watch out here come the Kellermans!!!