Is this worth watching and why?

Yes, because it's genuinely funny and entertaining. I just watched it today and I really enjoyed it. I hope you take your friend's advice!

It's definitely worth watching. The dialogue is snappy, the chemistry between Redford and Fonda is perfect, and it features great scenes of New York in the '60s.

It's definitely fun seeing Fonda and Redford from almost 50 years ago and they do work well together.🐭

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I suppose it's the kind of film you have to be in the mood for. It is old time humor, much like 'I Love Lucy', so if you laugh out loud every single time Lucy makes a funny face or says or does something stupid, then you might find it hilarious. I just had to turn the channel because it wasn't working for me. My 90 y/o father was laughing every five seconds to the point I had to tell him to stop because I wasn't getting the dialogue.

This probably worked better on stage. It is written by Neil Simon. But Jane Fonda played dumb way too much for my comfort, and I don't find stupidity funny, especially when it's supposed to be the reason why we should all be laughing.

Some nice NY scenes, and Jane and Redford were at their prettiest. But the same old same old jokes got so repetitive it became boring. (How many times are we supposed to laugh at anyone being winded walking up to the apartment, or the neighbor's cans inexplicably in the hallway, or the obnoxious French neighbor who has to enter their apartment and walk through their bedroom to crawl out their window to get to his apartment above because the landlord locked him out due to failure to pay rent, etc etc etc???). It just got way too repetitive that it wasn't even funny anymore.

If you laugh uncontrollably every five seconds watching a Three Stooges movie, then you'll probably like this. I'd give it 6/10 just for pretty boy Redford. But I'd rather see the play so maybe the humor would work better (though I doubt it).