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...nobody's been seriously hurt during the renovation of Briggs Cage? Guess again. The Harvard men's lacrosse team should be first in line for workmen's compensation...
Scalise blamed the Crimson's rusty shooting skills on missed practice time this season--time missed with the elimination of fall lacrosse practice in the Ivy League, with preseason practice cut down from last year's six nights to this year's three, and with Briggs Cage, the laxmen's indoor home, on sabbatical...
...snarling "Faggot!" at a rude driver. Later, when the aggressively hetero band of agents wants to guard the couple while remaining inconspicuous, they don dresses and uni-sex apparel. Renato teaching the tough guys how to walk effeminately creates a wonderful parallel to the scene in the first La Cage in which he tried to show Albin how to "eat with masculinity...
UNFORTUNATELY, the bright moments are too few to save La Cage II from dreary silliness. Left over from the original are Michel Galabru, blustering his way through another performance as Cherrier--the government's deputy of morality who happens to be the father-in-law of Renato's son--and Benny Luke, in the slightly offensive role of Jacob, the Black "maid" who struts around in glittery hot pants and provides the film with "racial humor." Neither actor is even mildly interesting this time around...
...Molinaro's placing them in a worn-out stock situation makes them all the more dull. Nevertheless, Molinaro and United Artists seem determined to cash in on the success of the original (the highest grossing foreign film ever released in the U.S.A.) and are supposedly contemplating a La Cage Aux Folles III, Yes, gay couples can behave as ridiculously as straight couples, but how much longer do they expect us to laugh about...