Broader re-do of the 1970 film of the same name. The glove-like fit of the material on Jack Lemmon, if not so much on Sandy Dennis, has been altered to suit the sketchier acting talents of Steve Martin and the newly stuffed and stiffened face of Goldie Hawn (beneath the same old blond bangs). It's almost as though the present team of filmmakers -- writer Marc Lawrence and director Sam Weisman -- got the notion that the earlier version would have made a good comedy if only Neil Simon and company had thought to make it funny. If only, for instance, they had thought to put a full-length fur coat and high heels on the mustachioed hotel manager, and a long-stem rose in his teeth. It is not altogether easy to ruin such a natural comic proposition as the misadventures of a middle-aged Midwestern couple in the Big Apple, but that's the genius of Hollywood in the Nineties. The movie even proves to be spinelessly pro-New York, making way for a benedictory cameo by Mayor Rudy Giuliani. (1999) — Duncan Shepherd
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