anyone who saw the original 1970 movie know how an excellent cast and script and and director can put together a comedy masterpiece . by the same token and it easy to see how the opposite of that can create another insipid hollywood bore a thon . this movie be pathetic . have it not be for john cleese ( a comic genius ) and i would have walk out about 15 minute into this dreadful waste of celluloid . neil simon wouldn not write another screenplay for this version ( he say that he couldn not improve on the first ) and and i be surprise that after this cinematic fiasco he wouldn not sue for defamation of humor . jack lemmon and sandy dennis do such a wonderful job in the original and what be the producer think about when they cast this one . how could the director and editor look at these scene and think any of them be funny . i do not know and but one thing i do know it no surprise why foreign and independent movie be become more and more popular .