As a road film, I can see the unfortunate routines of many road film duos along the way. The laughs are quite good, the lines and actors are very good, and there is also the afterglow of the sunset.
But to be honest, the plot is actually quite weak. The whole movie feels like a new little dough poured into the old face of the golden age. Except for the pair of Lemon and Matthew, most of the supporting characters are blurred, especially their children The passers-by in Hollywood family comedy movies, and they didn't inherit the slightest bit of cuteness from them, oh, and the sheriff is an exception, the bald head is cute. Looking at them who used to be able to say a series of lines without gasping for breath, and the old-fashioned shaking of their burdens, when Felix got mad at Oscar, I was worried that he would not get angry.
Overall it's still the foundation of '90s Hollywood family and road comedy, a film that shines with the brilliance of the past with writers and actors from the Golden Age. It has lost the lingering neuroticism and desperation of Billy Wilder's days, and its bottle is too new to give the old wine a taste of the past.
Felix's role has changed particularly obviously. Lao Fei is at most a normal man who is grumpy, furry, and clean, and his pursuit of women is also very normal. You can call him a grandpa furious. But in the old version, his sense of sexual inversion is extremely obvious, and his nervousness and emotional support are especially like a housewife. After reading it, there is no doubt that his ex-wife is a very strong person, and he loves him more than love.
At the end of this film, I think it's a bit forced and unreasonable. Anyway, it's just to make up the breakup between the two of them 30 years ago.
When Oscar said "We will see you in seventeen years", I suddenly thought that after the filming, they both left soon, so it was even more bleak.
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