Despite a serious credibility deficiency, this is an undeniably lovable, rude (but not too rude) comedy with some funny outtakes at the end that are guaranteed to send you off in a good mood. Ripely, if enjoyably over-acted by its largely veteran cast, the film top-stars those old sparring partners Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as two widowed old codgers whose feud and mutual insults seem as perpetual as the snow that clamps down on their Minnesota town. You won't really believe that a voluptuous 50-year-old red-headed widow (Ann-Margret) would move in opposite their adjoining houses, far less that she'd be likely to storm from her sauna in a leotard and roll about frenziedly in the snow, while they frost up the windows with their open mouths. Given such proclivities, however, it may not surprise you that she should throw herself into Lemmon's, then Matthau's bed after Lemmon, beset by tax worries, has, well, thrown her out into the snow. Lemmon and Matthau enjoy themselves exchanging verbal and occasionally physical blows, setting traps for each other, torpedoing the other's TV and depositing dead fish in each other's cars.

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