Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren, Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak and Katie Sagona reprise their roles from the previous film.

To further complicate things, Jacob and Melanie call off their engagement due to stress from their parents' involvement.

Max retaliates by disconnecting John's motor from his boat and broadcasting him nude (while Ariel was making a clay sculpture of him) at a Sears department store.

After realizing that their inability to properly plan a wedding is what drove their kids to call it off, they decide to set it right.

John and Max manage to catch "Catfish Hunter", but they reluctantly decide to release it so that it can symbolically remain with J.W.

On the way to their honeymoon, they discover Max's one-eyed bulldog Lucky in the car with them, put there earlier by John as a prank.

[10] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times described the film as contrived and getting by on the star power of the cast.

[13] In March 1997, a sequel titled Grumpiest Old Men was announced to be in development, with Howard Deutch and Mark Steven Johnson slated to direct and write the film, respectively.

[14] The sequel would've seen Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, and Sophia Loren reprising their roles with their characters embarking on a trip to Italy.

[16] Prior to his death, Marcello Mastroianni was slated to join the film playing the first husband of Sophia Loren's character.

When word came down that Paramount Pictures had a completed script for The Odd Couple II for Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, John Davis attempted to use the forthcoming project as a means of convincing Warner Bros. to start production.