There are some laughs in this movie, but not enough of them, and too many of them are dyspeptic in tone and style.

| Feb 25, 2025

The only part of the movie I enjoyed was the footage during the titles.

| Oct 20, 2023

The result is a touching, sensitive story that you can hardly stop laughing at.

| May 9, 2023

Somehow, at base, it's oddly offensive. Old age is mocked with malice, or so it seems.

| Jun 14, 2021

The sole point of calm in this work that constantly confuses loud for funny is George Burns, who underplays every scene and walks off with what accolades there are.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2021

It would seem that the more Simon contemplates the human comedy, finding it no laughing matter, the more he feels compelled to darken his humor with pathos.

| Jun 14, 2021

"The Sunshine Boys" views the afflictions of old age with compassion and understanding and makes these two characters as endearing as they are comical.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 14, 2021

The best film yet of a Neil Simon play.

| Jun 14, 2021

Matthau and Burns have managed to transpose one of Simon's weaker plays into the best of his screen comedies since "The Odd Couple."

| Jun 14, 2021

I got tired of all the yelling and screaming in gag form, especially because Matthau never convinced me his character was 73 years old.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2021

The handling of individual scenes by Simon and director Herbert Ross (who controlled Woody Allen in "Play It Again, Sam") is finest of any movie based on Simon's work.

| Jun 14, 2021

It is a very empty comedy about the meaning of reconciliation and the decline of vaudeville actors. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 4, 2020

If you're unfamiliar with Simon, Ross or Stark, The Sunshine Boys is a must; if otherwise, give a look at least for the acting.

| May 26, 2020

A one-trick pony with a hundred jokes about encroaching dementia. It was hilarious when I was 16, but now that I often wander into the living room from the kitchen and can't remember what I went in there for--it's less funny. Which is kinda funny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2020

The film hungers for a reconciliation at fade-out, but instead of effecting it naturally Simon has to rig it out with ugly quarrels, professional breakdowns and heart attacks.

| Jan 30, 2020

I'm afraid it would be a rainy day in hell before The Sunshine Boys would be anything more than an afternoon matinee flick for the Actor's Home For The Aged.

| Nov 20, 2019

Walter Matthau y George Burn reach that tragic emotion where the passage of time indicates the irreversible decline of things. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 17, 2019

...suffers from a terminally arms-length atmosphere that's compounded by filmmaker Herbert Ross' stagy approach to the material...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 22, 2018

Aging comics sparkle, swear, and spar in Neil Simon farce.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2014

Great chemistry between the two great comic leads and some pretty decent one-liners but this doesn't manage to hold together as a feature-length concept.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 22, 2013