This movie has many laughs. The dialog is funny in places, but the pratfalls and physical miscues that happen to Chevy Chase's character are the source of most of the laughter. His routines and mishaps resemble something out of the Three Stooges. "Seems Like Old Times," is an entertaining comedy with Chevy Chase as Nicholas Gardenia. He is a writer who is divorced from Goldie Hahn's Glenda Parks. She is now married to Ira Parks, played by Charles Grodin. Glenda and Ira are both attorneys. He is a DA whom the governor of California plans to pick for state attorney general. She takes mostly pro bono work, defending the poor but guilty. She is a one-person rehabilitation center because she employs many of the bad apples she gets off the hook. Of course, they don't change. The hilarity of this movie reaches its zenith when a couple of ex- cons kidnap Nick and force him at gunpoint to be the front man for the hold-up of a Carmel bank. Nick comes back to Glenda as his only source of help. He hides in their garage. The cops are looking for him. Ira wants to put him in prison for good. Glenda tries to send him away. He comes back. She hides him. This goes on throughout the film Chase does what he does best – the sort of deadpan mannerism with delivery of funny lines as asides. This may be Hahn's best comedy. She doesn't force herself in this one – it seems to come naturally, and she isn't otherwise a bumbling goofus. It's a light comedy with plenty of laughs that most viewers should enjoy.

But nothing else is comparable to that Columbia comedy/romance from 1942 wherein Cary tries to hide out in Jean Arthur's house and she tries to keep Ronald Colman from finding out.Part of the problem here is the script. Neil Simon is a very fine writer of screen comedies, as everyone knows, but this is not one of his best efforts. It's all overdone--the humor, the situations, the dogs most of all, the whole plot is a lot of fluffy nonsense.Anybody who thinks this is superior to FOUL PLAY, the previous outing with GOLDIE HAWN and CHEVY CHASE, hasn't got all their marbles. This is so far down the line from that previous comedy that mixed laughs with chills that it's not funny. Neither is the film.Have to give this one a thumbs down for lack of sparkling wit. Goldie and Chevy and CHARLES GRODIN deserve better than this.

After the very good, wacky comedy 'Foul Play (1978)', two years later Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase would pair up again in this pleasant, light-headed farcical comedy 'Seems like Old Times'. Chase plays it dry and Hawn is a loose pin, but it's the crackling chemistry between them that really works wonders… and the third party of Charles Grodin caps it off nicely. And not forgetting the ever reliable T.K Carter ('Southern Comfort', 'The Thing' and 'Runaway Train') who drops in with an amusing performance.Director Jay Sandrich is responsible for a lot TV shows and TV movies, but his crack at a feature length film displays bounce with the comical bravura and timing. The witty script (magnificently penned by Neil Simon) is well placed with its gags that it never out stays its welcome, but maybe it gets lost amongst its laconic talky spots. The eventual kayos that occurs is rather structured in its episodic layouts that come and go, but it's done in a wry style than intentional clumsiness even throwing some slapstick moments aside.A highly entertaining comedy enterprise by two stars who were at their peaks.

It does seem like old times when you watch this movie. I think this clever script, & the casting are perfect in this film. Goldie & Chevy Chase play off of each other well. Robert Guillame (TV's Benson) is well cast in support of the straight man who along with the rest of the cast are used to hang a good funny film together well. I think there are only a couple of films where Chevy Chase & Goldie Hawn worked together in as good a situation as they did here. Too bad it didn't happen more often as their chemistry in this one is really great.Now, if only a moose & squirrel showed up in the film & scared old Ira out of his wits, this one can only get funnier. Seems like there are not enough fun times like this film. The technology is now dated in it but most older films have that problem.