The Odd Couple
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: May 16, 1968 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
86
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
EmpireKim Newman
Lemmon and Mathau's finest hour. Read full review
100
The TelegraphMartin Chilton
What makes the film so charming is the comic interplay between Matthau and Lemmon. Read full review
90
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
The Odd Couple, Neil Simon's smash legit comedy, has been turned into an excellent film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Simon's somewhat expanded screenplay retains the broad, as well as the poignant, laughs inherent in the rooming together of two men whose marriages are on the rocks. Read full review
90
The DissolveTasha Robinson
Revisiting Saks’ screen version nearly 50 years later is like a class in how comedy and storytelling evolve, and how some aspects of a story endure over time, while others get sloughed away. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A funny screen version of a very funny (if not very significant) Broadway comedy. It does well as an evening's entertainment. Read full review
80
TimeStaff (Not Credited)
Playwright Neil Simon occasionally takes off his clowns' masks to show the humans beneath. In doing so, he has made his Odd Couple real people, with enough substance to cast shadows alongside the jokes. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Felix and Oscar are now part of the American mythos. Read full review
75
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
For all its overfamiliarity, this is a good play, easily Simon's best, and Matthau and Lemmon inhabit it with grace and style. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
The good news is that, as sitcom-style theater goes, The Odd Couple is often highly amusing, with Lemmon and Matthau ideally cast as prissy neatnik and unmitigated slob. Read full review
70
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Saks takes Neil Simon's play pretty much as it comes, but with Lemmon and Matthau to watch, and a generous quota of one-liners, who needs direction? Read full review
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