Word: caging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ORIGINAL La Cage Aux Folles was a harmless, if subtly naughty delight. In fact, it could have made an interesting TV sit-com: the wacky misadventures of a loving and long-suffering nightclub owner and his zany wife, the star of the club's act. The twist, of course, was that husband and wife were both male, the wife a flamboyant transvestite. Still, Edouard Molinaro directed the film with a light touch, making Renato and Albin just another daffy couple who had a way of getting themselves into embarrassing situations. La Cage Aux Folles caricatured most straights as such mean...
...Cage Aux Folles II, even fluffier than its predecessor, is a tiresome travesty of a film. At the outset, it resembles the original movie: Ennio Morricone's cheerily mellow Muzak score plays as Renato argues with Albin over one of his ("her") musical numbers. Once again, Michel Serrault as Albin, epitomizes all those ancient stereotypes about feminine flightiness and vanity--and once again, he walks the slender line between racy humor and misogyny. Ugo Tognazzi--with the wise restraint he displayed in the first film--underplays Renato, the patient husband who holds on to just a little...
...microfilm. Molinaro treats us to more than 90 minutes of car chases, dart guns, and hair-breadth close calls, using nearly every cliche of every spy-adventure film ever made--not to create clever satiric effect, but to provide hoakey chills and thrills. As the corpses pile up, La Cage II becomes less exciting than almost surrealistically weird: watching Tognazzi and Serrault dodge bullets and burly hitmen is like seeing Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball in a bad James Bond movie...
...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...
...like the Crimson team this year, the game revived and turned into a comfy Harvard blow-out, the victory of a team that is used to winning. When the team moves into a renovated Briggs Cage next year, it will have lost not only the loser's gym but the loser's image. Thanks in large measure to senior co-captains Tom Mannix and Mark Harris, who played their last home games last night, Harvard is now respected in all quarters and feared in some--like Hanover...