Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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-spirited tight-assed hypocrites that heterosexual audiences could laugh without feeling challenged--which, in one respect, was a cop-out on Molinaro's part. While the script seemed to aspire to incisive social satire, Molinaro made the film into a toothless, albeit funny, comedy of manners...
...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...
...show entertaining, but there is nothing inherently witty in the references to casebooks and legal Latin, which get so many guffaws from the in-house crowd. The show exploits little more than the nervous excitement generated by those drawn away from their study cells and their own casebooks. They laugh at anything, let alone an occasional joke with a point...
Even the title. Contempt of Courtship, shows the effort to squeeze humor from the legal jargon that revolves around the real lives of the show's performers and producers. The formula obviously works for the many law students in attendance, who can laugh at themselves through the sundry charicatures of life at the nation's most prestigious law school...
Freshman forward Joe Carrabino said in a few vengeful syllables what every Crimson fan had been thinking all night "They held the ball all game, and we still beat them by 20 points," he said. Then he started to laugh...