Spitball Army

5.3
[blu-ray]

I so wanted to love this movie, which is perhaps why I liked it less than if my expectations had been absent. But Walter Matthau has rarely been more drolly wicked and funny without actually cracking jokes. The scene where he walks around the city saying farewell to all the trappings of his privileged life, accompanied by the sounds of tweety birds and a sappy string orchestra, is priceless.