out to sea be a fun movie star that wonderful duo of jack lemmon and walter matthau . this film be not quite as funny a their grumpy old men comedy ( which it strongly resemble ) and but there be many laugh throughout . lemmon and matthau play a couple of in law who take a cruise together . once they get on the boat and the thing lemmon doesn not know be that matthau have sign them on a dance host so they do not have to pay for the cruise . this infuriate lemmon who in no mood to dance . what bad and matthau doesn not even know how to dance . nevertheless and they go along with it and it the process they meet some of their fellow passenger and crew member . here be the crew member represent there the cruise director gil godwyn and play to the hilt by star trek represent the next generation veteran brent spiner and who act like an evil dictator . there two fellow dance host and play by barney miller star hal linden and veteran movie musical star donald oconnor . there the ship owner mrs. carruthers and play by golden girl rue mcclanahan . a for the passenger represent there vivian and a widow play by gloria de haven and who fall in love with lemmon . there liz and play by one of my all time favorite actress and dyan cannon and who fall in love with matthau . there mavis and liz mother and play by veteran stage actress elaine stritch . and they meet others as well . all these actor be a pleasure to watch a lemmon and matthau play off of them . it great to see cannon here and see beautiful a ever while stritch be a hoot while spiner be a funny comic villain who play it deadly straight while de haven be wonderful while linden and oconnor and and mcclanahan have a good moment or two while and finally and the two main star and lemmon and matthau and be fine a usual . a nice little gem of a comedy . ( out of four ) .