This new version of the French comedy classic La Cage aux Folles works well enough in fits and starts and must rate as one of the fizzier Hollywood remakes of Gallic hits. This time round it's Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as the gay couple who encounter a mid-life crisis when Williams' straight son (from a one-off heterosexual experience) decides to get married. The bride-to-be is the daughter of a pro-morals senator (Gene Hackman) whose colleague has just died in bed with an under-age black prostitute! While Hackman and wife Dianne Wiest are en route to the flat above Williams' gay night-spot to vet their prospective 'in-laws', crowds of TV news crews are only a pace behind. Much funnier when it gets cracking on the ensuing dinner party - Hank Azaria is priceless as the prancing houseboy who has to turn butler/chef - the film suffers heavily from the modern pitfall of overlength. Williams' funny-but-harmless personality is perfect for the snarlingly harassed 'husband' and Hackman in drag at the end is less unconvincing than you might imagine.