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...have to ask, you are probably still wondering if Jack finally found a way to redeem himself in The Best of Times. But her team is full of genuinely funny fellows, Hawn herself is full of spunky charm, and Director Ritchie has a light and wayward comic touch, so even a hopeless male chauvinist can have a good, instructive time at Wildcats. If there are such things as necessary fairy tales, these movies cheerfully provide them...
...sets, particularly in the second act, underline the comic-book nature of this zany saga. In Technicolor orange and black, Solong has become a blazing, windswept, oil-spattered wasteland of a desert, worthy of Sam Shepard. Designer David Sumner has done an equally masterful job with the romantic starry skies and the eastern spires of the sultan's estate...
...central figure, a nameless public relations man for a major corporation, is getting stale. The company packs him off for behavioral conditioning. Walker is not much on acronyms: the victim is made to undergo PAR--Positive Attitudinal Reinforcement--and SAD--Supervisory Aptitude Development. But the forced seminars ring with comic truths: the victim is considered a pariah because of his indifference to football and "masculine science," i.e., driveway resurfacing. He has yet to master doodah, the company version of gobbledygook, and he is too easily seducible by beautiful employees. Under the ministrations of expert torturers, he learns to babble meaninglessly...
...OSCAR, FOR all his comic machismo, is not a flat character. He engages the audience so successfully in his plight as the cuckolded husband that he contradicts Wertmuller's purpose. The audience ends up liking Oscar more than the two women, whose romantic efforts and speeches are completely silly. Heck, Oscar's point of view even seems to make sense by the end of the film...
When Oscar says "All women are whores," in his drunken stupor, Wertmuller would have the audience believe that this is the comic entirety of the male anthem. Actually, Wertmuller is in error. The complete macho male anthem is that all women are whores, lesbians, or frigid. By merely introducing lesbianism or bisexuality in the women characters, this pretentious film does nothing to change men's stereotypical views of female sexuality it merely confirms one aspect of a nasty but common world view. To effectively make a feminist statement, one would have to introduce issues beyond the mundane comic plane...