| Granted, this kind of musical satire is an acquired taste, but his adaptation is little more than an excuse for clever rhymes and in-jokes. |
| His verse is both metrically and formally experimental, ranging from satire to love lyric, from sonnet to verse epistle, from elegy to hymn. |
| Happily, the spy flick trappings are a mere smokescreen for the film's clever satire of Middle American society and Cold War paranoia. |
| I used to think they were clever fiction, a satire on trendiness, a ludicrous but effective barb. |
| The credits reveal it was written by David himself, surely not a man at home with biting satire. |
| The score is cabaret style and combines the biting satire of Kurt Weill and the lush, poignant lyricism of Berg. |
