Is anyone going to see The Pink Panther? It opens today and Patsy and I are thinking about seeing it later. It was a tossup between a movie and a bicycle ride on the Tammany Trace but it looks like weather is not going to permit that. It looks like they have updated PP and maybe changed the story. I think I can believe Steve Martin as Clouseau and I think he can do the inspector justice. Without reading much about the film, I assume singer Beyoncé Knowles is playing the Indian Princess originally played by Claudia Cardinale. I don’t know if Beyoncé can act but I don’t think that matters much. I don't think Claudia was all that great. Her job was to look pretty. Kevin Kline is playing the commissioner. I don’t think the commissioner had much of a role in the original because Herbert Lom wasn’t in it but Lom was in all of the Peter Sellers sequels. Comparisons to Lom won’t do Kline any good. Lom was perfect as the frustrated commissioner. I don’t know what Jean Reno is doing in this film but I doubt I can buy him as a dashing gentleman jewel thief (David Niven in the original). In fact, is there a dashing gentleman jewel thief in this film? The trailer opens with a murder. Not very gentlemanly.
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I've introduced Danny to slapstick comedy. He watched one of the Pink Panther movies (Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer) and loved it, especially the parrot and vacuum scene. We're planning on seeing it sometime this weekend.
Rob, I never liked the original Pink Panther Series. I don't care for that kind of physical humor. I find it irritating. I do like Steve Martin, though.
The original Pink Panther series has just about every kind of humor in it. It has physical slapstick humor but also situation comedy, innuendo, sight gags, and miscommunication. Almost everything relies on timing. The unexpected gags are the best. Alas, we didn't go and I'm hearing nothing but negative reviews so now I think we'll wait for Pay-Per-View.
One of my favorite Pink Panther scenes, and I don't know the name of the movie, is when he's in disguise, wearing a long false nose. He is debonair as usual and is lighting a cigarette, talking all the while. The flame catches the tip of his nose but he doesn't realize it right away, not until there's a full-fledged fire going. I laughed until I thought I would choke.
Now that I re-read this, I wonder what that says about me?