Our critic said the sequel has "much of the likable, self-aware waggery" of the first movie.
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"More is more and is, at times, just right in '22 Jump Street,' an exploding piñata of gags, pratfalls, winking asides, throwaway one-liners and self-reflexive waggery," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times.
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Ingle assumed his pseudonym during a touring trip to Ireland, when one member of the party gave his name as Sir Charles Ingle in a "spirit of waggery". The name was then used on the prestigious guest list at their stop in Dublin and later that evening by composer Bond Andrews. Ingle later commented that Andrew's use of the name (and the fictitious "Lady Ingle") made the pseudonym pass bona fide to that evening's guests. He did, however, comment that the "haunting fear of untimely discovery made [him] vow never to pose as a knight again".
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Though spontaneous, sardonic, and emotive, his works maintain a directness and simplicity of dialogue which is lyrical without being florid or exaggerated. He expresses himself in an unexpected, Dionysian way which does not always obey the aesthetic and artistic principles of balance. Vicente's works seem to show a spirit in conflict: his portrayals of the flaws of others appear almost rash and cruel, while his devotional and pastoral works, and those scenes in which he defends the oppressed, give an impression of tenderness, docility, and humaneness. In contrast, his works sometimes include a romanticism which combines eroticism and waggery with more erudite influences such as Petrarch.
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Susie Dent (2006) The like, Language Report for real "WAG"/"wag" came also to be used somewhat redundantly ("deluxe-edition Wag girlfriend"Rod Liddle, Sunday Times, 13 August 2006), although in such usage "girlfriend" (or "wife") could be interpreted as further denotative specification within the set of people fitting both the denotation and the connotation of "WAG", and increasingly in non-footballing contexts: for example, the first wife of comedian Peter Cook (1937–95) was described as a "Sixties Wag"Sunday Times News Review, 24 September 2006 and actress Jennifer Ellison, because of her former choice of clothes, "once ... the epitome of a Wag".Reference was made to Ellison's erstwhile "short skirt, high heels, long talons and hair extensions" and the tenuous fact that she had once stepped out briefly with Liverpool and England player Steven Gerrard: London Lite, 5 October 2006. Fashion writer Shane Watson coined a collective noun, "waggery".Sunday Times Style, 17 September 2006 One can also be "Wagged" This type of acronym is of long standing in British English.
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Some critics, such as Jacqueline Pearson, have argued that these cross-dressing roles subvert conventional gender roles by allowing women to imitate the roistering and sexually aggressive behaviour of male Restoration rakes, but Elizabeth Howe has objected in a detailed study that the male disguise was "little more than yet another means of displaying the actress as a sexual object". The epilogue to Thomas Southerne's Sir Anthony Love (1690) suggests that it does not much matter if the play is dull, as long as the audience can glimpse the legs of the famous "breeches" actress Susanna Mountfort (also known as Susanna Verbruggen): :You'll hear with Patience a dull Scene, to see, :In a contented lazy waggery, :The Female Mountford bare above the knee. Katharine Eisaman Maus also argues that as well as revealing the female legs and buttocks, the breeches role frequently contained a revelation scene where the character not only unpins her hair but as often reveals a breast as well. This is evidenced in the portraits of many of these actresses of the Restoration.
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