This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau star in this long and lame comedy about two old guys who get jobs as dance partners on a cruise ship. Each one finds love on the high seas.Lemmon plays the dope who gets tricked by brother-in-law Matthau into a cruise, not knowing they've been hired to squire old ladies around the dance floor. Could have been funny, but it goes under really fast.Lemmon meets a shy widow (Gloria DeHaven) and Matthau tries to snag a Texas heiress (Dyan Cannon) only to find out that she's also a fortune hunter. Tons of wasted talent here. Elaine Stritch plays Cannon's conniving mother, Hal Linden and Donald O'Connor play fellow dance partners, Rue McClanahan plays the cruise ship owner, Estelle Harris is one of the old ladies, Edward Mulhare plays a card cheater, and Brent Spiner gets way too much screen time as the ship's snarky entertainment director.The situations are unbelievable from the get-go. The film is 30 minutes too long in any case. No one outside of Lemmon, Matthau, Cannon, Spiner, and DeHaven get much to do, although Stritch breathes a little bit of life into this mess. Film would have been much better getting rid of Cannon (who comes off as a total zero) and teaming Stritch and Matthau.There's also a maudlin streak running through the film with Lemmon moping around because his wife died. Who wants to watch him sobbing at her picture in a frame? This was supposed to be a comedy! This one should have followed the Titanic to the bottom of the sea and taken director Martha Coolidge with it.

Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, both of whom are sadly missed, proved once again that they were a team dedicated to their craft of bringing hilarious moments to the screen. This film is just another example of this.This time out they play two brothers-in-law who land on a ship as dance instructors on board.Of course, their boss is a perfectionist and miserable person named Gil Godwin who just enjoys harassing these boys. It's hilarious how Lemmon gives a quick lesson in dancing to Matthau and how the latter dances a riotous rumba with the boat's owner Rue McLanahan.Too bad that fellow dance instructors Hal Linden and Donald O'Connor are given so little to do but their parts call for that. Matthau falls for Dyan Cannon, on board with her fellow gold-digging mother, the usual outrageous Elaine Stritch. Unknown to them, Matthau has no money either. The widower Lemmon falls for Gloria De Haven, looking lovelier than ever.The film belongs to Matthau and Lemmon and will serve as a further tribute to their illustrious careers.

"Out to Sea" was a vehicle for Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, a team of comedy actors that excelled in their different movies. This film seems to have been made after the success of "Grumpy Old Men", and it involves a cruise where the men will be involved in funny situations since they have been hired as male escorts to entertain the single women of a certain age that are attracted to this type of vacation.Martha Coolidge, the director, doesn't bring anything new to the picture. It's a formula movie, and as such, we know where it's going at all times. The best thing in the film is Brent Spinner, who is the cruise entertainment director, the man in charge of Herb and Charlie. This man, who loves to sing, supervises his domain with an iron fist and gets funny results.Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau could do their Herb and Charlie well, as they proved in the many films they appeared together. Both actors have some good moments in the film. Dyan Cannon, Elaine Strich, and the lovely Gloria DeHaven, are good to see in any movie. Others in the cast include Rue McClanahan, Donnald O'Connor, Hal Linden, among others.Let's remember Mr. Lemmon and Mr. Matthau for other, better made movies than this one.

Once again, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau team up as a pair of elderly grouches. "Out to Sea" is basically "The Odd Couple" and "Grumpy Old Men" set on a cruise ship, with the two guys trying to meet and defraud old widows. I personally think that they could have done without all the romance stuff and just had JL and WM get on each other's nerves. But don't get me wrong, there are some great lines (namely the one about shark-infested waters). Also starring Dyan Cannon, Gloria DeHaven, Brent Spiner, Elaine Stritch, Hal Linden and Donald O'Connor (in his final role).Oh, and in case Dyan Cannon is reading this: STOP GETTING FACELIFTS!!!!!!!!!!! YOU LOOK TERRIBLE WHEN YOU DO THAT!!!!!!!