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Article: LEMMON/ MATTHAU FILM REALLY FLOATS GREAT SUPPORTING CAST PROVIDES MUCH BALLAST.(Entertainment)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- July 2, 1997
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Granted, it might not be saying too much, but ``Out to Sea'' is by far the best of the recent series of Walter Matthau-Jack Lemmon old-age comedies (after 1993's ``Grumpy Old Men'' and 1995's ``Grumpier Old Men'').
Be warned that there's still plenty of scatological gags and the movie is a far cry from the ``The Odd Couple'' and further still from the four semiclassics the pair made with Billy Wilder.
But Martha Coolidge (``Lost in Yonkers'') has proven herself to be an infinitely better director of this kind of material than either Donald Petrie (of ``Grumpy'') or Howard Deutch (of ``Grumpier'').
Lemmon plays a retired, recently widowed retail ...