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

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

| 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

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

The Sunshine Boys is an extremely sensitive and lovable film version of Neil Simon's play, with Walter Matthau and George Burns outstanding in their starring roles as a pair of long-hostile vaudeville partners.

| Mar 26, 2009

Mr. Matthau is so good playing old men, we may never know when he finally becomes one.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2005

Neil Simon's most irritating play is no less agonizing on the screen under Herbert Ross's sycophantic direction.

| Jan 1, 2000