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Out-of-Towners

Steve Martin (Actor), Goldie Hawn (Actor), Sam Weisman (Director) | Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: DVD
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)

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This remake of Neil Simon's l970 comedy finds Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin as Ohio yokels cast adrift in Rudy Giuliani's sanitized New York City. With their son recently departed for Britain, the empty-nesters travel to the Big Apple for a job interview and are beset with all kinds of bad luck, starting with their flight being rerouted to Boston. Things only go downhill from there, of course, as they're mugged by an Andrew Lloyd Webber imposter, the high-tech multilingual navigation system on their rented Cadillac goes haywire, and their hotel reservations fall through. Though this movie is marred by some out-of-place slapstick and mawkish romance scenes, it's not without its funny moments. The couple stumbles into a sexual-addiction encounter group and has to try to back out gracefully (not succeeding very well, of course). John Cleese is howlingly funny as he reprises his Fawlty Towers role of a cross-dressing hotelier, and Martin has a great drug-delirium scene, in which he's slipped a hit of LSD in jail (thinking it's aspirin). Just try not to think in terms of comparisons to Neil Simon's original and this remake works fairly well. --Jerry Renshaw

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2.0 out of 5 stars Stick to the Original, Jun 30 2004
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Julie A Ross (Pleasant Hill, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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If you've seen the original "Out-of-Towners" with Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis, there's really no reason to see the remake. Jack was so funny and put everything into his performance, but this time the humor just isn't there. The story is very rushed and it hurts the movie. For example, the couple leave Ohio, get on a plane, it can't land in New York, they can't find their luggage and are rerouted to Boston all in the first 20 minutes of the movie! And they altered the story a little, which cuts even more of the humor out of it. Like, instead of the hotel giving their room away, their credit card was decined. There's just nothing funny about that. Nor do I remember their going to a group in the hotel to talk about sex in the original movie! Making a remake of this incredible movie was a mistake. Or if they did want to do it, they could've taken the time to do it right.
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2.0 out of 5 stars STICK TO THE ORIGINAL., Feb 28 2004
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Shashank Tripathi (Gadabout) - See all my reviews
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Anyone who has seen the original 1970 version with Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis, under the aegis of Neil Simon's tight scriptwriting, knows how an excellent cast, script, and director can put together a comedy masterpiece.

By the same token, it's easy to see how the opposite of that can create another insipid Hollywood bore-a-thon! Despite two stars in the lead that I simply adore, it falls miserably on its head. There are about 2-3 actual gags that evoke so much as a grin, and out of a full length movie that just isn't enough.

While I highly recommend the original, you'd probably be better off skipping this wannabe farce.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, Feb 7 2004
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This movie is so hilarious. It tells the story of a man who got fired but is too proud to admit that to his wife. Then the time comes for a new job interview in New York.
"Journey may be more important than the destination" is what Steve and Goldie find out on their way and during their stay in New York.

A must watch movie.

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