The Birdcage (DVD) Reviews

A film in which Robin Williams is truly at his funniest, The Birdcage is a brilliant film which takes the classic story and turns into a fast paced superbly cast comedy. An all star cast includes Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Diane West, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockheart, Hank Azaria and Christine Baranski. With brilliant performances ...  Read the complete review

The Birdcage was always going to be a success in my eyes, given that Robin Williams plays a prominent role in the movie. His acting ability is something to be savoured and he is no different in this movie. The film is set in South Beach, a place where to be straight is rather unusual but to be gay is very much the norm. Armand (Robin ...  Read the complete review

The Birdcage was a film I had been really looking forward to see. I had heard many good things about it. I finally got to watching it and I was disappointed. It just seemed to lack something but I couldnt really put my finger on it. It could have done so much more but instead it just relied on you laughing at the way gay people act. A gay couple ...  Read the complete review

"The Birdcage" is a fantastic film full of wonderful comic moments that cause a person to burst out in hysterical laughter. The plot of two gay men trying to put on false heirs in order to impress their son's fiance's father and mother is written well and acted to, what I believe, to be comic perfection. Robin Williams is ...  Read the complete review

Robin Williams is brilliant in this film, what a fantastic piece of casting. This film is from a French story called "La cage au Folles" (which, by the way is also brilliant). It is about a homosexual nightclub owner and his son. The son falls in love with the daughter of a big time pollitician. She decides that ...  Read the complete review

I have to admit I've put off watching this film for some time. The plot sounded like it would not be something that would entertain me. Two middle-aged gays try to act straight to impress the prospective in-laws of the son of one of them. With a star cast including Robin Williams and Gene Hackman, directed by Mike Nichols and a ...  Read the complete review