Travolta/Cage Ep. 15 - Honeymoon in Vegas/Look Who's Talking Too (with Odie Henderson)

One of the things we’ve learned about Travolta and Cage during this project is that they’re both, in their own way, Elvis figures: they’re handsome, song-and-dance men who occupy a kind of irresistible masculinity and cultural supremacy in their prime. Never is that clearer than this week’s doozy of a double-feature, as film and TV critic Odie Henderson (RogerEbert.com, Vulture) helps us break down Look Who’s Talking Too and Honeymoon in Vegas!

The podcast’s very first sequel, Look Who’s Talking Too sees young Travolta and Kirstie Alley juggling work and young parenthood as their first baby, Mikey (Bruce Willis, talking for the baby long after he develops speech of his own), grows up just in time to welcome his little sister Julie (a grating Roseanne Barr) into the world. Get ready for baby genitalia jokes and Elias Koteas as a Reaganite Travis Bickle type, and for an 80-minute movie to feel like three hours.

Thankfully, we’ve got the deceptively lo-fi charms of Honeymoon in Vegas to contend with, as Nic Cage tries to overcome his mother’s deathbed promise never to marry by getting hitched in Sin City with his longtime girlfriend (Sarah Jessica Parker), only to get roped into a “Dangerous Liaisons” situation with high-stakes gambler James Caan that’ll take Cage to Hawaii and back (thanks to a plane full of flying Elvises).

Which film’s our good luck charm, and which goes down in a hunka-hunka-burning flames? Listen and find out!

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