David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Apr 6, 2025 3/4

...a slightly overlong yet predominantly affable comedy...

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Rob Lowing The Sun-Herald (Australia) Feb 28, 2024 2.5/4

This is formula comedy all the way but somehow the skimpy plot and rehashed situations prove amusing in a leisurely not irritating way.

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Cory Woodroof 615 Film Jan 15, 2023

Oh, to have been a senior citizen at the height of the Grumpy Old Men films. What dreams may come.

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James Croot The Post NZ Apr 4, 2022

Few movies of this increasingly burgeoning genre have reached the same heights, today’s efforts increasingly sanitised, formularised and joyless. Everything Grumpy Old Men is most certainly not.

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John Ferguson Radio Times Aug 5, 2020 3/5

Although the script isn't quite as strong as it could be, the chemistry between the two stars is irresistible and they are matched by an equally strong supporting cast that includes Burgess Meredith, Kevin Pollak and Ossie Davis.

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Simon Rose Empire Magazine Aug 5, 2020 2/5

Watching Matthau and Lemmon in this vehicle is sometimes hard to stomach after knowing that they are worthy of so much more.

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Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune Aug 5, 2020 2.5/4

They're two saints of sarcasm. And they work their magic here with only the flimsiest sitcom structure to support them.

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Malcolm L. Johnson Hartford Courant Jun 4, 2018

Whether Grumpy Old Men will bring out the ornery elderly population is anybody's guess. But young and old alike may find something to like here.

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Quentin Curtis Independent on Sunday Dec 6, 2017

Where Lemmon begs for our approval, Matthau barely bothers to perform. An odd couple indeed.

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Adam Mars-Jones Independent (UK) Nov 15, 2017

In their prime, the by-play of these two (Lemmon and Matthau) was like an entertainingly bad marriage, but time has made their antagonism seem perfunctory, and the rapport that underlies it somehow smug.

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Renee Schonfeld Common Sense Media May 6, 2014 2/5

So-so comedy with insults, sexual humor. No kid appeal.

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Kevin Carr 7M Pictures Sep 21, 2010 3.5/5

the real reason this movie works is the fantastic, decades-honed chemistry of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau

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Ryan Cracknell Movie Views Aug 28, 2009

A funny, often hilarious, film that proves that a story doesn't need to be completely new just as long as there's a spin on it to make it different.

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Peter Canavese Groucho Reviews Jul 15, 2009 2.5/4

Irresistible...the prime hams and real-life friends share comic timing that can only come from years of experience. [Blu-ray]

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John J. Puccio Movie Metropolis Jun 26, 2009 6/10

...sort of a one-note picture, but luckily that one note is often pretty humorous.

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Chris Cabin Filmcritic.com May 27, 2009 3/5

What ruins the fun is the prattling need for structure outside the central rivalry

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Richard Schickel TIME Magazine Aug 24, 2008

Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon are awfully good at this sort of thing.

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Derek Adams Time Out Jun 24, 2006

Mediocre, regrettably.

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Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily Jan 26, 2006 3/4

A raucous geezer comedy that contains several hilarious moments where you're laughing well into the next scene.

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Thomas Delapa Boulder Weekly Aug 25, 2005 1/5

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