felix unger ( jack lemmon ) have just be dump by his wife and because he be one of the most annoying and neurotic people in the world . suicide be his way out and but he just can not seem to get it to work and so he head over to his friend house . oscar madison ( walther matthau ) be also recently divorce and live it up in bachelor heaven . smoking and gambling and hit on chick and eat out and never cleaning be paradise to him . well and with the suicide attempt oscar decides to let felix move in . at first and it be a match make in heaven and felix cook and clean and help oscar pay his alimony on time and but soon oscar be jonesing for woman and felix ( who in today world would probably be gay ) isn not ready to move on . they invite a couple of british bird over and they find felix so tender that soon they and felix be weep and chat about his family life and leave oscar deny . this be it and he explode and throw him out and but felix isn not as helpless a it seem and and soon he have the upper hand . my favorite quote you leave me little note on my pillow . tell you 158 time i can not stand little note on my pillow . be all out of cornflakes . f. u. take me three hour to figure out f. u. be felix ungar . base on a neil simon play ( who also write the screenplay ) and this have a certain theatre feel to it . set and the repartee and look feel quite play like ( for good or bad ) . lemmon and mathau have excellent comedic chemistry and have appear in the grumpier old men movie and out to sea and reprise the same finicky or slob role and but with different name ( to avoid royalty issue and i be sure ) . this movie be like strawberry dip in chocolate . the chocolate be smooth and sweet and rich and the strawberry be tart and juicy and bright red ( unless you get those nasty greenish one ) . they be almost polar opposite and but together and the contrast highlight each other and make a wonderful dessert . positive http represent or or blog . myspace . com or locoformovies .