Plot
A spy plants a capsule of microfilm on Albin and from then on spies and government agents pursue him. Albin and Renato travel to Italy to hide at Renato's mother's farm. At each point along the way, we see the straight world's reaction to Albin.Cast
* Michel Serrault as Albin Mougeotte/ZaZa Napoli * Ugo Tognazzi as Renato Baldi * Marcel Bozzuffi as Broca, chief of the government agents * Michel Galabru as Simon Charrier * Paola Borboni as Mrs. Baldi, Renato's mother *Critical response
''La Cage aux Folles II'' holds a 60% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on five reviews. Vincent Canby of ''The New York Times'' wrote "The film is as harmless, reassuring, sentimental and unsurprising as any prime-time situation comedy that has gone on too long." Gene Siskel of the ''Chicago Tribune'' gave the film 3 stars out of 4 and wrote "The new story is even less compelling than the old one, but this time the lead characters are more meaningful. 'Cage II' is a more poignant film, portraying the straight world as pursuers of power while the homosexuals seek love and beauty." ''Variety'' reported that the film was "markedly inferior" to the original and "is basically a Michael Serrault drag variety show ... There's little else here of interest or competence. Tognazzi has less to do than before and just fades into the background." Sheila Benson of the ''Los Angeles Times'' wrote "Nothing has changed. The plot has only thinned since the real story, Renato and Zaza's relationship, has already been so exhaustively explored." She noted, though, that the film "comes alive at the moments when it deals with double and triple role reversals." Lloyd Grove of ''The Washington Post'' wrote that "the sequel delivers the same punch lines to the same jokes, though this time there's a dash of international intrigue to keep things moving." Gilbert Adair of ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wrote that "the juxtaposition of campy histrionics with the dreariest type of espionage comedy offers quickly diminishing returns. A pity no worthier vehicle could have been found to reprise Michel Serrault's brilliant performances, the precision of whose comic mimicry can be compared without exaggeration to that of a kabuki female impersonator." Pauline Kael of ''The New Yorker'' wrote: " ''La Cage aux Folles II'' has nothing to do with the art of movies, but it has a great deal to do with the craft and art of acting, and the pleasures of farce. Serrault gives a superb comic performance - his Albin is a wildly fanciful creation. There's a grandeur about Albin's inability to see himself as he is. And maybe it's only in this exaggerated form that a movie about the ridiculousness and the tenderness of married love can be widely accepted now." Kael, Pauline. Taking It All In, p.167References
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