I've watched most of the Odd Couple TV series episodes with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall. But I've never watched the original movie with Walter Mathau and Jack Lemmon.
The movie begins with Felix Unger (Lemmon) wandering around and almost committing suicide after his wife has kicked him out. He finally finds himself at Oscar Madison's (Mathau) apartment. Oscar offers Felix a place to stay temporarily. As Felix begins to talk about his marriage, we can kinda see how he might have driven his wife crazy after all these years. (He, however, does not have a clue). He is a very neurotic, anal retentive, nit-picky neat freak. On the other end of the spectrum is Oscar. He is the ultimate slob. The opening scene finds him having a poker game at his place, and offering his guests rotten food and warm beer from the fridge that's been broken for weeks.
Needless to say, they begin to drive each other crazy.
It had funny and slow parts. While I enjoyed it, I wouldn't necessarily label it as a "must see" movie. Based on a play by Neil Simon, it really is a perfect starting place for a TV series. Both sets of actors (movie and TV) did a great job with their characters.
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