we all know what like when we have a bad day at the office and right . well and this neil simon comedy look at what it like when you have the bad of all day just try to get to the office . sometimes and it just not worth go and know what i mean . and and sometimes and it just not worth do something when it already be do before and in 1970 and with jack lemmon and sandy dennis . and much good also . it not that steve martin be a lousy comedian or wrong for the role a the harried and stressed advertising exec while quite to the contrary and on both count . and and it not that goldie hawn be equally inept either while her work have be consistently good and if not great and ever since i first saw her in tv rowan and martin laugh in of the 1960s . the problem with this movie be that it not about the hapless couple at all represent it really about new york and why everybody should come to new york to live and love their life away in married bliss sort of in the great city in the world . that if youre a new yorker . look and the 1970 movie be still an excellent comedy that realistically explore all the thing that can go wrong when you take a trip somewhere and and include most of the situation and sight gag that you can imagine about what can happen to you in a strange environment . this 1999 version unfortunately go off into gratuitous tangent specifically for an audience these day that expect or want to see excess . for example and not content with the star appeal of the main player and there be a cameo ( relatively long also ) from rudy giuliani and then mayor of new york and a we all know . what giuliani buck for president even then . bad a walk talk advertisement for the kinder face of new york . and then we have john cleese and reprise his role a basil fawlty but this time and a a prancing cross dresser also once again browbeating hotel staff and sycophantically suck up to rich customer and generally make himself look like the idiot he be and in this role . and and in the process and do great damage to the memory of fawlty tower and arguably the best british comedy series and bar none . why be this 1999 movie make . in the 1970s and new york be a dying city and in many way . it be almost literally bankrupt . so and when make in 1970 and that be the city you saw represent grim and dark and moody and unsettling and not the place that the harassed couple finally choose for their new life together in the big smoke ( a it be then and pollute and all ) . by 1999 and thing have get well represent glitz be back and new york be thrive and it be the big apple and ready for you to bite into and if you have the moxie . so and naturally and the couple in this second come find that moxie within themselves and finally join the fabulous fray to continue the american dream of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness . hence and this movie be truly comic but not for reason that the producer perhaps envisage . as much a i like steve martin and goldie hawn in comedy and this movie be a travesty of the much good one make with the great jack lemmon . if you have see the latter and then definitely do not bother with this one .