Seems a little dated?

"Gay humor" is mainstream now? Really? And how many mainstream films or shows have gay characters as leads now? Especially ones who are in comedies and are not tragic? Toddy gets a happy and romantic ending, just like Victoria. Just how common is that *really* nowadays in film?

I'd also like to see where all those great comedies where a forty-something woman plays a romantic lead are now.

Further, how common is it to find a film that deals with gender essentialism in any way that is anything but mocking toward women? Victor/Victoria is certainly a farce, but its subtext is deadly serious. There are situations in which characters are threatened with death for being perceived as gay and as a result of other characters deliberately spreading ugly rumors about them. The heroine is so poor early on that she faces a situation of prostitution/rape to survive and only finds her job prospects greatly improved when she pretends to be a man who impersonates a woman onstage (contrasted with Norma, who basically has to resort to a high-class form of long-term prostitution with gangsters to get ahead in Chicago).

Toddy is being taken advantage of by a young man who acts as if he's "better" than Toddy because he also sleeps with women and only sleeps (supposedly) with Toddy for money. We even see a club (Chez Lui) that caters to the GLBT community and keeps getting shut down every time there's a brawl (no police even bother to show up when King starts a brawl in a working-class bar).

So, no, I don't think it's dated at all. Some other Blake Edwards films are, but not this one.

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It's dated in the same way Eddie Murphy's Delirious live on stage movie was when you think of the terms they used for being gay. It's gotten "PC Mainstream" now. Showing gay characters on TV/movies without the crudeness that there used to be in the 80's when being gay meant a death sentence according to the media and govt.